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Nightmare That You Can’t Stop Living!

I really want to come by and talk about how a Dominican dr has treated me before and during and after surgery. I flew to the Dominican Republic September 15th for surgery on September 20th. I did my labs as advised by Ambar, dr dislas daughter and assistant. My hemo had slightly dropped to 12.8 from 13.6 +. I reached to ambar before I left cipla to see if I neeed fo retest before I left the clinic cipla, she advised me no because if only dropped a little and I showed her my labs before I left home. I went about my week expecting exerting to go as planned and as discussed. I receive a text from ambar that Yoryini is trying to contact me (one of dislas assistants) she said I needed to go to hospital escano instead of cipla. I’m supposed to be there for surgery in just a few hours, I’m not familiar with hospital and causes Unnecessary stress, but I went on and kept a positive outlook. I was told I would be first of the day due to being there and getting labs done before the other women who flew out more than a 5 hour flight. (Which isn’t allowed per disla, supposedly) the girls who flew in, their labs weren’t even completed, had not seen specialist. The other girls went into the cloth divided rooms to get marked up and then it was my turn. Disla asked me what procedures I’m doing which was a tt/ mr, bbl, lipo, chin lipo, arm lipo, thigh lipo (all had been laid in full for over a week) disla then proceeds to ask me what my hemo is at I said it was 13.6 + but when I did my labs after the flight it dropped to 12.8. She then proceeds to tell me I can’t get all the procedures I paid for and to choose one, she said “people come here expecting to get everything they want and die!” Shocked by her response, I then ask if I can retest hemo to try to get the procedures I signed a contract on. Disla tells me yes and says it will make me later for surgery, (I was ok with that because I’ve already been here and dedicated the time migt as well seen through) I rechecked my hemo and the test came back and my hemo was 13.4. Disla says pick two and so I chose chin and arms. ( I was upset but my safety is my concern as well) she marks me up and discredits my skin and just not making me feel warm and trusting as she’s about to be the one to cut me open…
I then wait out in the lobby for surgery, I didn’t get wheeled back to my room until 4 or 5, they then came to my private room to pull me for surgery. They take my glasses and belongings and give to my man and one of my nurses. I get tho the surgery area and the tell me to sit down and there’s a whole bunch of people in street clothes talking and just hanging out. This whole time I thinking this is supposed to be a sterile environment. I went to go pee as I have a medical condition that makes me pee a lot it’s called painful bladder syndrome or IC. ( Ipee more frequent and suddenly and it can hurt) when I get back from the bathroom a pregnant woman sat down in my chair and I want going to be rude and ask for my seat back, but I was alarmed by the lack of compassion and cleanliness in the matter. All the while, the surgeon techs are cleaning out the blood from the surgery room I’m about to head into. After about an hour of watching them clean the room and everyone having a big fiesta around me. I get wheeled back to the OR and they lay me down almost straight on my head at an angle. They give me some IV sedation and nitrous and I asked if I was getting a blue pill because that’s what I was told would happen since months planning this surgery. I was told escano center doesn’t administer the blue pill only iv. Worried I tried to trust the process. This is when it starts getting wild, I wake up during surgery but being able to breathe, drowning in my own vomit, i lift my head up (I obviously can’t move as I have had an epidural) I turn my head and look back and there was three men lipoing my back. I tried to tell them I couldn’t breathe and they kept shoving my head and face back into the bed, into my vomit. I was begging them to put me back to sleep. I believe after some time I did as I don’t remember being wheeled back to my room. I got to my room at 11pm. I didn’t eat at all that day and no fluids. Morning came and I was advised I needed two bags of blood. Disla came into my room and yelled at me for jot going to sleep, she said, “ you wouldn’t go to sleep, moving your head. I proceed to tell her weakly that I couldn’t breathe as I was laying in vomit, she proceeds to tell me she coul have killed me or punctured my liver or lungs. ( I’m thinking youre the dr, how are you going to be mad at me for not going to sleep, they should have put me back out or stopped the procedure, not risk my life or Blame the patient) she leaves and I’m just Amazed and shocked. I’m in the hospital and I notice my arms aren’t completely done and my vagina wasn’t lipoed as she said she was going to do (even though she didn’t want to because it would be saggy) she just pulled it up. I have uneven lipo on arms and my arm lifts weren’t don as discussed would be with my arms. I received m faja and not my other compression garments as previously discussed. I am then tol I’ll get them at my post op in a few days. I wake up post op morning am I’m bleeding fro rectum and I have a lipo burn on my stomach. I go to the post op appointment and one of her assistants looks at my pain pump (that I received from an anesthesiologistst) the assistant then grabs my purse and gets the pump out of my bag and tried to take it out of my arm and proceeded to take pics of Of my pump and my person without permission. I freak out as at this point I’ve just had enough and now your trying to take away my little bit of pain relief. The assistant calls disla and disla gets mad saying I didn’t listen to drs orders even though there was no previous discussion on the pump, disla even confirmed I didn’t ask her when, why would I ask a dr who doesn’t prescribe pain meds after surgery? I got my pain pump from a dr shouldn’t have been an issue. Disla says she is dismissing me from clinic because of the pump and her assistant didn’t want to change dressings and drains. My nurse eventually convinced them to at least clean me up. I have a recording of the office visit, I tried to post to her pages and I’ve been banned. Please be careful who you in trust with your lives!! Not only did all this occur but she messed up my tummy tuck scar and it’s an “s” instead of a “u” and she left a skin tag and weird stitch on one hip, she gave me hips and made me too wide (when I already had beautiful natural hips) she gave me all top booty and made my bottom butt and cuff look square!! She can not shape you! She was an absolute terrible decision and she won so follow care unless you fly back to the Dominican Republic for every question and concern! I have a recording of all of this. Two of them actually! I just wanted to have a new start to life after losing 120 pounds naturally, just to be botched and disrespected and then outcasted for speaking out! DO NOT TRUST HER!!

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Plastic Surgeon
CIPLA, Santo Domingo , Distrito Nacional
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