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Abdominoplasty Revision: Folks, There is Indeed Hope!
A good friend of mine, and patient of Dr. Minniti, has recommended him to me for an abdominoplasty revision. She had the same surgery with him. Her results? Nothing short of stunning. And she had a hard case.
I liked what I heard. I liked what I saw. However, because I had gone through a whole drama after previous surgeries with another doctor, my skepticism lead me to do some further research, before deciding who my surgeon would be.
I've literally stalked Dr. Minniti for a full year haha! I've spend hours looking at his instagram page, website, YouTube interviews, and Realself reviews. I've also enjoyed the adorable posts about his two adopted Pitbulls.
His passion, knowledge, thoroughness, energy, and charisma are intoxicating. His hands seem to be like two magic wands - each one of his results seemed perfect to me. I've become enchanted by his talent.
I then decided to go for a three-thousand-mile trip to have an in-person consultation with him. Besides very charming, most importantly, Dr. Minniti is a realist. A man who does not make promises nor sugarcoat things. At the same time, I still left with the impression that he does deliver perfection, or at least that was how I felt after spending almost one hour talking to him.
I've had also consulted with another highly qualified Beverly Hills' surgeon, but decided that Minniti should be the man. Because he does have this one thing that is not taught at med school: empathy. That for me was the cherry on top.
Six months later, I was scheduled for a full abdominoplasty, including muscle repair and S.A.F.E lipo 360 (full back, tummy, flanks, plus bra line & hips). He also mentioned to be using the H.D. technique for the lipo in certain areas, to help improving the several irregularities I had left from liposuction performed by my previous surgeon.
I flew to Los Angeles a couple days before my surgery. During my pre-op consultation, Dr. Minniti's wonderful assistant, Ariana, has mentioned to have booked for me a room at a recovery facility for the first night after my surgery. I agreed with no issues. But later that night, I read some reviews from those folks that made me uncomfortable, so I went ahead and canceled on them (I felt I'd be more safe by having two friends taking care of me at my hotel room).
That scheduled abdominoplasty was a major surgery. On the top of it, in my mind there was still vestiges from emotional trauma caused by previous surgeries that went wrong. I was nervous. So nervous that I didn't realize that by canceling the recovery center I was questioning Dr. Minniti’s judgement. At the morning of my surgery Dr. Minniti strongly insisted that I should rebook the room at that recovery facility. And thank God, I did it so. A full abdominoplasty involving muscle repair and so much liposuction is no joke - I absolutely needed all the care received by the highly qualified nurses at Pearl Recovery & Retreat Wellness. And under no circumstance my friends were qualified to take care of my needs during that first night.
As life is all about living and learning, that was my lesson of the day. At the end, we are all just humans - one day or another we all will make a mistake. But this is a mistake I'm sharing publicly, with hopes to save others from the bad that could've happened to me that night. I'm lucky to be in the hands of a wonderful human being, who is just as concerned with his patients as he would be with a family member. Please guys, listen to your doctors.
I'm now only a few days post-op. As usual, final results do not tend to show before six to nine months after surgery. However, I'm not concerned. My pictures speak for themselves. I will surely be updating this review as time goes. Good luck with your journeys and God bless you all.
Should I still say I recommend Dr. Minniti? ... :-)
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Rio is the Best Massage Therapist for a Post Tummy Tuck Procedure
I'd like share my experience with Rio, the massage therapist at Dr. Minniti's office. Her hands are the best ones that have ever touched my body after a cosmetic procedure.
As far as I have noticed, it is not too dificult to find massage therapists available to help us after plastic surgery. However, it is indeed difficult to find a good one. In fact in 2019, after having a mini-tummy tuck procedure elsewhere, I had scheduled several lymphatic massages with someone right after my drains were off. The lady told me at our first session that she had to touch my incision to help it to heal better. I trusted her and let her do it. But right after she started manipulating it, I started to feel pain and asked her to stop. She did it. But it was then too late - I immediately noticed a red mark over the point she touched that wasn't there before. Months later, I had a terrible keloid showing at that spot - my scar healed terribly and looked horrible and that stayed permanent (until recently, before I've passed through the hands of wonderful Dr. Minniti, who has just corrected it).
Rio has wonderful hands. The level of pressure she uses to manipulate the body is just perfect. She knows where to touch you and how to do it. She is also a lovely person, I will miss conversations we've had.
I've just had a major procedure involving a full abdominoplasty, muscle tightening, and lipo in many areas. I've been in quite some pain, but after starting my lymphatic massages with Rio, lots of my swollen have dissipated and I feel much lighter.
After such an aggressive procedure, our bodies are in such vulnerable state, that having a highly qualified massage therapist helping us, becomes a must, and that is Rio! So kudos for her - I highly recommend her for your post op needs. If you are local from Beverly Hills, or like me, who came from another state but stayed around a couple of weeks to recover, remember to take advantage of these lymphatic massages with Rio. I can't recommend her enough.
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One Month Post-op Update
A few pictures of my progress are attached. I'll keep updating. God bless you all!
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To perform a TT at someone who has not have any plastic surgery previously is way easier, since the surgeon works in a skin with no irregularities to fix nor other issues. Unfortunately, I had not research enough before my first surgery so ended up in the hands of a surgeon that did not put as much effort on my surgeries and things went just wrong - I wish I knew better. But all in all, I'm over the moon with my results now. I do not want to spend more time looking back at the bad decisions I previously made. I'm very happy to finally have found a solution to my issues - it's been causing me serious emotional damage for years. I'm glad I'm finally done with it.