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Steeles Avenue Cosmetic Surgery

Steeles Avenue Cosmetic Surgery review: plastic surgery

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This doctor uses scam sites like ratemds.com and realself.com. These sites allow doctors to post positive reviews about themselves and allow doctors to pay to have negative patient reviews removed. The globe and mail a major Canadian newspaper company wrote an entire story about it here, titled "Doctors can pay to hide negative reviews on websites like RateMDs.com. Should we use them?" and Sunnbrook a major Toronto hospital wrote about it here http://health.sunnybrook.ca/navigator/rating-review-website-doctors-health-care/. A negative review that I wrote against Dr. Robert Backstein posted below was removed from Google business review after being up for one year. I not only witnessed my review being deleted at ratemds.com and google.com but other patient reviews too. A negative review written by a patient almost six years ago posted on Google was removed a month before mine went down. Luckily Google has allowed me to repost my deleted review. The other patient review is posted below if anyone wants to read it. It's the review that was removed from Google that I refer to at the end of this review. This doctor is most likely using sites like GuaranteedRemovals.com to mislead customers by erasing his patient's negative reviews from Google business.
Dr. Robert Backstein botched my minimally invasive gynecomastia surgery very badly. The damage/irregularities he caused to my chest are permanent and will cost me $21, 000.00 to just try to improve the look and the success of the revision surgery is of low probability. My chest muscles still hurt two years post surgery. He failed to remove my gland on the right side, didn't mark my body with a pen or go over the surgical plan with me. He liposuctioned all the way to my clavicle, armpit, edge of pec muscle and front shoulder. He did this more aggressively on the left side causing very noticeable asymmetry. I lost a good amount of muscle strength in my left pec muscle and front shoulder. The total amount of fat suctioned from both sides of my entire chest area was only 50 milliliters (10 teaspoons). If you google image search liposuction canister you will see fat floats to the top of the canister where it is measured everything else sinks. This fool scraped away type II muscle, fascia and important connective tissue.. Do not fall for his superficial charm, he is a malicious monster. After he has your money he will do whatever he wants to you. I made it clear what I wanted done and he did the exact opposite without my consent. Liposuction was only supposed to be done if there was unevenness after taking the glands out to feather the area around the nipples (not my entire chest). Humber River Hospital the hospital I had my surgery in didn't even have any pre-op rooms available; from the waiting area I was brought right into the operating room, disrobed and told to wait for Dr. Backstein to arrive.
It was awkward standing there watching the nurses and anesthesiologist prepare for my surgery. When he arrived he only took a couple of poorly done photographs of my chest at extreme close ups and no photographs were taken from the sides, arms raised, arms behind back or flexing before putting me under the knife. He also lied to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and told them that he had marked me while I was awake and standing. When I made my complaint against him to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario they didn't even interview the nurses and anesthesiologist to ask them if they remembered me being marked up. Soon after when I told him I was going to sue he took down his website called Cosmetic Surgery Toronto and redirected all his visitors to his new site called The Centre for Minor Surgery. On his Cosmetic Surgery Toronto website Dr. Robert Backstein stated he was a fully qualified Toronto board certified plastic surgeon. Very soon I will have my website open to the public. There you will be able to read my College of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario complaint, see pictures of my botched chest and listen to all recorded conversations I had with Dr. Robert Backstein. Like the other reviewer said "if you could see what he has done to me you would never hire him, NEVER"

Below is the patient review that is now missing from Dr. Robert Backstein Google Business page.

"UNETHICAL DR. BACKSTEIN: i went to see him for liposuction and he suggested that he could correct abnormal pectorial area by adding fat from my love handles, i agreed and that was my worst mistake in my life. 6 Weeks after the surgery i noticed that the area where he added fat was hard, very hard and sticking outwards, so i went to him and he said keep rubbing them and it will disolve, well its been more that 6 years and the hard lumps are permanent now. I went to see dr. backstein 2 years ago and he said basically to leave and he can't help me, if i wanted his help then i would have to pay another $3000. He has a signed document that protects him from issues like this as per my lawyers advise i can't do anything but to warn others that if you could see what he has done to me you would never hire him, NEVER"

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