I had a breast augmentation in December by dr. Vandermark, and here I am not even a year later having to spend 4000 for another doctor to fix his mess up. My implants came out of the pocket also known as bottoming. He gave me no post op instructions, I specifically asked if I need to wear a surgical support bra and he said no I don't even have to wear a bra. When you look up implant bottoming one of the reasons it can happen is from not wearing a support bra. when I made an appointment to see about fixing it, he wanted to go in and tack my skin to my rib muscle with me awake. I was even thinking about going a little bigger which he was saying is fine and planned on charging me 500 off the original price of first surgery(which is pretty much nothing) to go bigger when he already has to cut me back open to fix me. So I went to get an opinion from another doctor who plans on reforming capsulorraphy to fix this. (Actually go in a sew the pocket together) When I told her what he had planned to do she said that is pretty much a temporary fix. Also she said wearing a support bra is crucial for healing and that it's not really safe to go bigger til this is fixed. ALSO if I would've gone to the doctor I'm going with now originally being fixed the correct way would've been free and bottoming probably wouldn't have even happened because she makes you wear a surgical bra post op for 6 weeks. So I'll end up spending 9000 this year due to his mess up or "care free post op instructions" I will never refer anyone to him and will make sure anyone that plans on having a breast augmentation is informed of my story. He left me loss with this mess up, had no sympathy. thank god I found another surgeon. Time to pay up from my poor decisions on choosing this surgeon and move on from this horror story.
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I had a breast augmentation in December by dr. Vandermark, and here I am not even a year later having to spend 4000 for another doctor to fix his mess up. My implants came out of the pocket also known as bottoming. He gave me no post op instructions, I specifically asked if I need to wear a surgical support bra and he said no I don't even have to wear a bra. When you look up implant bottoming one of the reasons it can happen is from not wearing a support bra. when I made an appointment to see about fixing it, he wanted to go in and tack my skin to my rib muscle with me awake. I was even thinking about going a little bigger which he was saying is fine and planned on charging me 500 off the original price of first surgery(which is pretty much nothing) to go bigger when he already has to cut me back open to fix me. So I went to get an opinion from another doctor who plans on reforming capsulorraphy to fix this. (Actually go in a sew the pocket together) When I told her what he had planned to do she said that is pretty much a temporary fix. Also she said wearing a support bra is crucial for healing and that it's not really safe to go bigger til this is fixed. ALSO if I would've gone to the doctor I'm going with now originally being fixed the correct way would've been free and bottoming probably wouldn't have even happened because she makes you wear a surgical bra post op for 6 weeks. So I'll end up spending 9000 this year due to his mess up or "care free post op instructions" I will never refer anyone to him and will make sure anyone that plans on having a breast augmentation is informed of my story. He left me loss with this mess up, had no sympathy. thank god I found another surgeon. Time to pay up from my poor decisions on choosing this surgeon and move on from this horror story.