Writing this review in the hopes that someone will read this before booking with her, because I wish I had known how truly horrible she was in advance.
About 4 years ago I had a procedure done by Dr. Javan to remove breast tissue in my armpit area. My first impression of her was great. She was incredibly informative, to the point, and ensured me that through using "smart lipo" I would see great results. Fast forward a bit for the sake of you having to read a extremely long yelp review, after having the procedure it turns out smart lipo is not affective on tissue, so, it did not work. But, none the less, Dr. Javan made me wait a full 6 months because as she stated, "that is when you see the full result."
Since we both (me a little sooner than her) came to the realization the smart lipo did absolutely nothing, Dr. Javan decided it would be best to cut out the tissue. I was incredibly reluctant to do another procedure with her, but since I had already paid for the first procedure, and she offered to mend her mistake, I had the choice to do the second procedure with her, or find another doctor and pay for a second surgery. So, I decided to schedule the procedure with her. If I could go back in time, and read a review like this, I would have NEVER let her alter my body.
After scheduling the appointment, Dr. Javan canceled it, TWICE to rearrange for her schedule because she and her team accidentally over booked her. Not only though did she cancel it, twice, but she had her team inform me she would have to cancel the appointment days before the actual procedure. I want to quickly mention that at the time, I was in graduate school and working part time at two restaurants to pay for my schooling. I should also mention that having a procedure of this nature on this specific area required me to not be able to move my arms almost at all. I was not able to go to to work for almost 4 weeks. So, as a student with two part time jobs, having to undergo a surgery not only severely impacted my ability to work and go to school (for the second time I might add), but having to request time off was extremely difficult. FURTHER, since I was not able to work during those times, I was not only suffering the cost of the surgery, but losing money during the time I was unable to work. I relayed all of this to Dr. Javan and her team and they showed absolutely no empathy, barely even apologized, treated me like I was a burden, and were blatantly disrespectful.
Finally, the day of the appointment came. Dr. Javan drew the areas she would be cutting my skin and informed me she would make the incisions small and go under the skin to avoid a large scar / would hide the scar completely under my arm so you could not see it. As i'm sure you can guess by this lengthy review, that didn't happen. I woke up with HUGE scars going way higher than underneath my armpit area. They were completely botched looking/ sewn together TERRIBLY. I tried to trust that they would be fine, but cut to today, they are horrible scars. And, to make matters worse, she barely made any changes in what I had originally gone to her for.
I have had consultations with 4 other plastic surgeons today who have all stated that the scar should not look the way it does. Additionally, in order to get rid of my scars, all of these surgeons have confirmed that I would have to undergo a full scar removal surgery.
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There is not a single day I don't look in the mirror and think of Dr. Javan and what she put me and my body through. There is not single day that I don't look in the mirror and regret ever going to such a horrible surgeon. Please, trust that I am not one of those insane yelp reviewers who do this for fun. This surgery happened 4 years ago and I constantly told myself, there's nothing that can be done so why bother writing anything, but I CAN potentially save someone from undergoing the same regret I did by booking with Dr. Javan. read more
