I have to wholeheartedly agree with the negative reviews on here. The doctor is sloppy and doesn't wash his hands. The staff leaves a lot to be desired and are very abrupt unless they are talking about your charges. But this is what really got to me: I went in for a string facelift of the bottom half of my face. He said it would take 5-7 strings which was true. The doctor specifically told me, in the presence of his staff, when he finished, that I would definitely be a touch-up needed and assured me that there would be no charge for this. I heard this loud and clear and there was absolutely no doubt that he said this. He said a touch-up would probably be minimal and he might need to add one more string. It was very expensive so it made sense. Plus he even talked about the fact that it would probably need another string and that it was normal and, again, said it was covered in the initial charge. Caveat: tape any conversations in this office if you want proof. This fact alone made the next two months before my follow-up bearable because it had left my face lopsided. One side was nice and tight and just beautiful. The other side looked like I had had a stroke. But I told myself, hey, he told me this would probably happen (even though he did not tell me until he had finished this very, very painful procedure) and that there was no charge for the touch-up. And I was unable to be out in public due to covid which is why I was doing this at this time. So then I go in for the follow-up and was told, yes, I definitely needed the touch-up but that "he absolutely did not tell me there was no charge because HE HAD NEVER, EVER TOLD ANYONE this and that they never did anything for free in his office. Ever. The touch-up ended up costing double what the first work cost. How can that even happen? We did not add any areas to the treatment. He was fixing what he messed up. I mean, I consider it a mess-up when one side of my face looks like I had had a stroke and the other side was perfect. (Thank goodness I could wear a mask everywhere without drawing attention to myself.). Well, he ended up having to add some fillers to fix the mess he had done the first time, which he charged me for. By the time he finished this, I could have had a facelift which would last 10-15 years and would look 100 times better than the horrible job he did on my face. AND this not-so-bright assistant who prepped me did not put the numbing cream on my face this second time. She did the first time. I asked about this because I knew how badly the first time hurt even with the numbing cream. She said that they never did that. What? This girl dropped one of the mirrors and broke it on the floor. She was extremely sloppy. Then she played video games. She was too busy to go and ask him if he wanted her to use the numbing cream as I asked her to do. So it was unbearably painful this time along with the fact that I was very stressed after being told I had to pay for the touch-up for the mess he had made of my face. The only other choice I would have had would have been to try to find another doctor to fix what he had done. I just decided I would get it over with although I certainly was worrying about his making another mistake and taking a chance I would look worse. I also felt like he said some things to me which were borderline "sexual" -- telling me things that doctors never tell me like he'd like to have me walk around with him outside so he could show people how gorgeous his patients looked after he had worked on them.
He also neglected to tell me how unbearably painful the areas where he had inserted these "strings" and where they "try" to poke through your skin will be. Seriously painful. For a month. Not a day. Not a week. At least a month. And horrendous bruises over the entire bottom of my face which also last a month. And this cost more than $10,000 for the area of my cheeks to the chin area only. Each time took him 30 minutes and he had to rush, rush, rush, because he literally had several rooms with patients prepped. The girl told me that he does approximately 18 of these procedures every day. Wow! Now I don't know if she is to be believed but it made sense. He had at least 5 people that I saw each time waiting their turn to go back and I saw at least 3 rooms where he had patients waiting. And I believe he is the sole person doing that type of work. read more