I WON'T REFER FRIENDS OR FAMILY. I wanted to leave honest feedback so others like me, who don't get cosmetic procedures regularly, and are considering spending their money on a specific procedure will be WELL informed. I had a medical procedure with Dr. Erica Sato. The office will ask you to leave a review early on, but wait a few months.
While the doctor is nice and did a good job, I honestly believe an older, more experienced doctor would have done an excellent job and would have removed the most fat allowed (not requiring an overnight stay in the hospital). Tummy Tucks and Lipo are considered once in a lifetime, costly procedures for me. The doctor was in my opinion too conservative, so I might actually need to go to another doctor in the future to address the spots/areas where I believe she could have/should have removed more fat. So, during your consultation visit, have her mark on you and tell her what areas YOU want her to specifically focus on, in addition to what she normally does! Be sure that SHE does it again before surgery, and discuss, so she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt what YOU want her to work on!
Dr. Sato recommends endermologie after certain cosmetic procedures FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS with a specific person. Know this, endermologie is great at breaking up scar tissue, that's it! You can't get it too soon, because your body will be healing and sensitive. Once you start endermologie treatments and no longer feel scar tissue (they feel like hard spots on your body), stop going. Endermologie temporarily inflames and puffs up your skin and causes longer term bruising. It's supposed to help with cellulite, but doesn't (because the effects are only temporary). You don't have to go to the person she recommends. You can go anywhere that offers endermologie, but check them out and look at their reviews, so you don't end up with someone with "biases" and a personality you might not like!
If you ask Dr. Sato questions after your procedure and after the endermologie treatments about why more fat wasn't removed, or why your before and after pictures aren't night and day, be prepared for her to say you have some other condition. If she didn't mention you having specific issues or concerns during the consultation, pre-op and post-op visits, her comments are invalid.
Also, they sell a bunch of products, including compression garments, vitamins and skin care products. These products are very expensive and don't necessarily work well, they are just the products this office is selling. Read online reviews before you spend your money, unless you have money to blow. Don't buy any garment unless they measure you for it. Once you take a product out of the package, it's yours (their words), even if the doctor recommends it and the product doesn't work/garments don't fit/or last as long as you think an expensive product should. This office doesn't give refunds on anything for any reason, they will refer you to the product manufacturers.
The bottom line is this, I won't be recommending friends or family here. The doctors and staff are too flippant/nonchalant about the amount of money patients spend on cosmetic procedures or products. They continue to recommend this product or that procedure, all for their sake, not yours. Please forgive any missed typos! read more