I will be filing a grievance with the state medical board and a lawsuit against this practice.
PLEASE READ : DO NOT GO TO EDMUND KWAN OR YOU WILL END UP REGRETTING IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. I had double eyelid surgery by him and many things went wrong. I am writing this so that no other girl or woman is harmed in this way.
- Starting with the most severe damage done: he operated on me without appropriate/timely anesthesia - I was screaming as he burned fat under my eyelids and could smell my own flesh burning before I was put under and unconscious. After the surgery, the nurse asked if I was ok and she was concerned because I was screaming "it hurts!" during the surgery. I was in so much shock that this happened/did not want to think about it and was too scared to bring it up. I never thought this could happened to me and am still coming to grips with this.
- On the day of the surgery, the entire pre-op consultation was completely rushed. He drew on my face and promptly left the room without explaining exactly how he was going to achieve the results we discussed and without giving me a chance to look at myself in the mirror with everything he drew on. I had to chase after him into the hallway to ask even one question. Had I had the chance to see myself, I may have possibly caught the many errors (though this should NOT fall on the patient) that would happen in the operating room.
- After the surgery, the swelling in my right eye remained for at least 8 months. It made me look like I was punched in the eye and the few friends I was comfortable enough seeing in that condition were asking if I was ok. I did not look better as plastic surgery should make me look; I looked like I was harmed.
- My right eye was stitched in the wrong position so that it couldn't open all the way - I looked like a horror plastic doll with one eyelid opened wide and other eyelid half closed. It also somehow made me look cross-eyed.
- The surgery made my eyelids everted - flipped inside out. Now the underskin of my eyelids is more exposed, causing extremely dry eyes and a strip of white underbelly skin right underneath my eyelashes.
- I specifically asked for parallel/open folds, and less angular inner corner/to pull my inner eyelids up to create bigger brighter eyes which he said he would do, but instead got the complete opposite. Not only are the results tapered, but my eye opening is actually smaller now. They are extremely asymmetrical, narrower/more angular, and now a newly formed skin fold exists over the inner corner of my left eye, causing a wrinkle that did existed before. I am not expecting perfection, but I do expect the surgeon to deliver what was agreed upon especially if it's being done on my FACE.
- I asked for square shaped eyelid crease which he ok-ed but in reality blatantly disregarded and gave me oval shaped eyelid crease without my consent.
- I asked him to remove excess skin which he also blatantly ignored - since he did not remove the excess skin, this caused excessive drooping over the crease he created and what looked like a roll of fat above my eyes.
- I also underwent another operation during the same time which also did not go well, but I will not describe in this particular post.
- He offered to fix my eyelids which I, in hopes of looking normal again and being naive to trust him again, agreed to, but of course the same issues STILL remain.
- I went to two other asian surgeons in NYC to assess my eyes and they both agreed to the problems described above. It will cost almost $8k to get revision surgery to get this fixed if at all possible and additional time off from work to recover from surgery.
I trusted him with my body, my face, my identity but he exercised complete reckless abandonment of medical integrity. I cannot even look at myself in the mirror anymore and have developed debilitating anxiety from the trauma of all this that prevents me from engaging in social settings. This has been a nightmare that I cannot wait up from and every waking minute, I am haunted by what was done to me. Please save yourself and avoid going under the knife with him at all costs!! read more