Lipostructure Fat Grafting / TriBeCa Plastic Surgery review: buyer beware! 541

Why is it that doctors can mutialated people's faces and bodies and get away with it? We need to lobby for a new law to protect patient's right. Do you know most patients are given consent forms to sign only minutes before surgery? They take your money like two or one week in advance before surgery, then they make you sign something right before surgery. The consent form is usally in very fine print with many l egal wording that most people don't even know what it means. We as the public need better accountability from doctors. They need to give consent form to patients a week or two before surgery and also before collecting patient's fees.

Hi, My heart goes out to everyone of botched comestic plastic surgeries. We need to make doctor's more accountable especially those that are using people without their consent to do experimental plastic surgeries.
what do some of you think the percentage of botched comestic plastic surgeries is? I think it is most like 70%. What do you think? Some botched surgeries can be fix while other cannot. The type of botched surgeries that leave scars, indentations and super pucker marks on faces are the most damaging.

Whoever wrote "give up COREY YOU ARE WIERD", I have this message:
She didn't write the recent comments and has stopped writing for some reason. I am the one who wrote them. And I am not weird for spotting a con man who looks ugly and gay, and has no right to judge or alter anyone's appearance... since he is an UGLY ALIEN FACED OLD WRINKLED GAY LOOKING DRIED-UP DOCTOR.

what happened to Corey? Where is she? I worry what has happened to her! if you are out there, corey, please let us know you are o.k.

I think I am among the rare handful of patients who have had the fat/stem cell proliferation problem. I dont know where to turn with this, can those who also had this happen or suspect it please contact me .
This really feels like a is a twilight zone movie and I am the freak.I cant believe the huge enormous toll having a fat graft
has taken on my life!Truley my biggest regret and biggest mistake.I was mortified to here doctors in Italy and Brazil tell me that the fat grafts can come back after removal.

I do not beleive you. show pics if you have proliferation. So far others have just shown pictures that are taken close up to make lips look huge.

Most plastic surgeons and Doctors in Brazil are probably quacks. Who cares what they say or think!

Ducky: please post you proliferation areas before and after!

You can black out your eyes to hide your identity. Just show the parts that have grown. and please show the whole picture. NOT A CROPPED PICTURE!
It is so easy to take one picture from far away and then crop it and compare to one taken close up (as the lady that posts here has already done) to make it seam like proportions have changed dramatically or even slightly.

correction: doctors in Italy are quaks too (esp. plastic surgeons)

I am not sure what you mean. I think that if you want to demonstrate what you mean then YOU should post the photos so we can know what you mean. I really hope you will because otherwise I will never know.
Anyway, a picture is two-dimensional and it matters not how far away you take a picture of it. It is in no way comparable to the effect that you get from photographing a real person.
It will always have the same proportions. However, a person is three-dimensional and so they can have many different proportions when depicted in a two-dimensional photograph.

Oh I think you misunderstood me. You are saying I should crop the before picture and then you think that I think they will look like the afters. No. I think that the befores are taken from far away and are being cropped. Then YOU are comparing them to after pictures that are taken close up. And I know very well there are two women but they both seam to be doing the same thing!

Dear Corey,

You certainly are a women of courage, conviction, and integrity! Anyone that would minimize your pain and the experience you endured obviously does not possess the same powerful inner qualities that you were gifted with. Often people have to walk in anothers shoes before they can fully understand the depth of anothers experience. So sad that those that haven't the depth of experience speak ignorantly and in a truely uninformed and unenlighted truth. Bravo to YOU Corey keep up the good fight!

I see damage and everything but I do not know what else.
I definately want to minimize and why shouldn't I? Why should I wish that these women have been deformed permanently? I had just hoped that they would post more pictures and that their situations might have improved.

I can clearly tell that the before photos are cropped photos taken from a greater distance than the afters but could appear to be taken at a similar distance to some because they have been cropped.
I also really wish they would date the photos so we could know how long after the surgery they were taken.
I know the how they have been through a terrible experience but I just want to see more photos and get dates. the more knowledge we have the better.

how am I clearly bored with life? please explain in great detail!

I have seen this question posed before but it doesn't appear to have been answered. For all of us suffering from the negative consequences of fat injections, has anyone found a surgeon to remove the fat grafts or found a way to improve the look?

Since it appears that many of the writers have been suffering for a long time, I would greatly appreciate your sharing what you have learned about improving the appearance of the grafts.

poor Heidi Montag her face looks so stiff now!

It's time that the public know all about bad doctors. They want fancy cars, big fancy houses and live the life style of being rich at the expensse of their patients. I don't get paid if I don't perform my work properly and why should doctors' get paid for botched comestic surgeries? That is a lot of money. We need more accountability from these doctors. We need to weed them out. There is way too many doctors in the United States.

Don't forget that you are a hero too by posting your horrible experience with this quack doctor. Plastic surgery is very common and popular in the United States and you have opened up your heary to let the public beware of this quack. I am sure there are a lot more people that are victims of super botched plastic surgeries.

I read articles that doctos often used their patients without their informed consent to do plastic surgeries. This is horrible. You paid them to do work that they don't have the talents or skills to do. If this doctor's experiment comes out nice, then he will post your pictures on his website to help promote his business.

I agreed with this posting a zillion times.

The complaints about Dr. Coleman posted here are 180 degrees from anything I have experienced as a Dr. Coleman patient. For me he has been an absolutely amazing doctor..a Miracle Worker. I can't believe these complaints as they are so opposite of my surgical outcomes and impression of this wonderful doctor.

To me he is an angel to have been motivated to develop a technique for fat grafting that has helped so many accident victims repair injuries that otherwise would be difficult if not impossible to repair given other means of reconstructive surgery. I am such a person and he has given me my face back and unbelievably I look better than before I was injured. He has made me beautiful. I am thrilled with his work, and him. He's the best.

Dr. Coleman is extremely caring, thorough in pre operative conversations ( I knew everything he was going to do and he did nothing we didn't specifically agree upon and both initial ). His work speaks for itself, I have never looked better.

As for healing time everyone is different but I had extensive work done and looked swollen for not even two weeks which was nothing considering everything I had done. His office staff is wonderful as well. Everyone in his office: nurses, patient coordinator, secretary/front desk person, anesthetist, they are all so kind and incredibly competent. It's the most professional and caring doctor's office experience one could possibly imagine. The outcome of choosing Dr. Coleman for my reconstructive work was everything I had hoped for and way better.

What ever happaned to Andy11778? she was so upset with the fat grafting overfill in her face, last I heard she attempted to get it out with a combined facelift but
ended up with even more swelling afterwards at 6 months post? I sure hope she is okay .Has anyone heard from her?
Poor Heidi she is in for quite a ride.

Dearest Naloha,
You are so full of crap!
If you look so much improved from all your "surgeries" then why the hell don't you post your gorgeous face here for all to admire? I simply do not believe you when you say you look "beautiful" after having had "extensive" surgeries. I am sure you look like heck! You also talk in a faky way that almost sounds like you work for Coleman and are trying to dilute the complaints on this web-site with your cosmetic surgery ### talk. Honestly, I feel like I am sitting in a consultation in Coleman's office when I listen to you.
Like most you are all talk and no do. I look on Coleman's website and am not impressed. He doesn't do anything great and it is clear from this web-site that he has ruined many lives in exchange for whatever mediocre work he has done. He is a pathetic con-man and I doubt anything that he claims is true!

Thank you for your kind words ; ) I do look great. I had reconstructive work done and look better now than I have ever looked...before my accident. That's pretty impressive. As for posting pictures I would be uncomfortable having you see what I look like as you are evidently missing a player. Furthermore if I did post my beautiful results you would never be satisfied that they are genuine because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that anyone could say they went to Dr. Coleman and provide any pictures and say they are post surgery and actually be completely full of it...like you...

Not only do you seem totally loco you also seem to be a major hater. Haters don't have a lot of credibility with reasonable people. I read all your bs rants about Dr. Coleman before I ever contacted his office. That's how credible I find you. Say you for a reason.

Naloha, you sound so defensive and insulting. These people have been traumatized. Maybe you should go on another site and share your happiness. These people have been deeply hurt and for you to minimize their suffering and pain, call them haters, and sound condescending is inappropriate. Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Please show compassion for the mutilated. You say that you were happy with you result. Well Good for you, but don't use that to hurt and discredit the reality and suffering of others. People have been multilated and traumatized. Thank God it wasn't you! It could of been you. These people went to the doctors and that in self was a disfiguring experience.

Naloh, you are so dishonest and so wrong. Not just "anyone" could post before/after photos to show how they look before and after an accident and then after a reconstruction. This is why doctors will show before/ afters to patients. If your story were true (that you look "better" than before an accident) then you would be the first and would be proud to show off your miracle to us by posting your before/afters. I know if a doctor made me look even better than I did BEFORE a disfiguring accident that I would be very thankful to the doctor and want to post my photos here!
You are obviously not telling the truth and do not even sound credible.
Besides, if your results are so great then why doesn't Coleman have any miracle photos on his web-site that are typical of your story? His work is mainly crap! love the picture of the man sucking in his cheek and then letting it out for the after shot!

yes, Coleman's photo of the man with the cheek sucked in is totally unbelievable! It implies that one could replace their lost jaw bone with fat! Either the guy photo been computer altered or he had his lower jaw replaced where it appears to be missing. That photo is not real and does not represent fat grafting. It is so dishonest!

Heather morgan can you please mail me, I need to talk to you.

I feel deeply for any one who has been disfigured. Fat transfer was done to my face years before anyone blogged
about it. It was done on the west coast. There was nothing on the internet regarding these kinds of problems. I isolated and hid from the world for many years.
Finally, now I am in a very good place, in part thanks to this blog, wonderful kind and caring friends, family and fellow bloggers and meeting with those who have had a similar experience.
I spent time researching how to fix the problems intermittently over the years facing the challenges described so
eloquently in these blogs.
It is now my goal to make studying, researching and learning more about this subject a full time project. Already, I have seen physicians on the east coast, west coast and many places inbetween. Unfortunately, many plastic surgeons do not know much about this subject, much less how to undo the fat grafts. I am gathering information on how the damage of a fat graft can be undone or at least mitigate the disfigurment. It is very time consuming but a rewarding project.
There are many people out there with these types of challenges and it helps to share information. It is so hearth warming to share experiences.
There has been much shared on the blogs, I have read each one of them and I appreciate all those who have shared there experiences, tragic and personal and difficult as they are and have been. I do not understand people who enter a blog designed to help those who are disfigured and then use this forum to go on and on how they think their results are so amazing. It seems odd and cruel to me. Anyone can become disfigured at any time via car or plane accidents, fire, gun shot wounds etc. Since some seem to have no idea what a disfigured person endures and apparently do not believe these gut wrenching descriptions here, please google Katie Piper. Her parents did not recognize her. Katie begged them to kill her. I do not see her burns I see a beautiful, lively, brave caring young women who is now wise and so full of love and joy.
On some of the blogs people have asked for names for doctors able to undo the fat grafts. I have asked those questions myself and now I finally understand why they cannot be answered in a forum. It is too complex to anwer that without knowing what the problems are, what a person wants to correct, what has the person already tried, can the person travel, which doctors has the person already seen, what were they told etc.
For years I did not want any kind of surgery. Recently I have healed to the point were I can trust and move forward.
I now look forward to each day and learning more and more about procedures which may help.
Looking forward to being and looking my best and enjoying life each day. For every person who has suffered from being disfigured I wish you all the best from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for sharing and continue to be the beautiful persons you are.

Frank Ryan's was exposed when Heidi showed her damaged face so he drove off the cliff. Everyone new the truth so the monster had nothing left to do but die. Just read his writing on his myspace page and you will see what a con he is. How he uses words to persuade people so that he may prey on them.

Rachel Uchitel: You claim your lips are larger from injecting but I see in 2001 you always had large lips. What is with you and those fart bag doctors?

Does Coleman still overfill or has he lightened it up?

Who would be dumb enough to go to him and find out?

beware 99.9% of all plastic surgeons, not just coleman.

"Corey taylor Clegg "you use to post on here almost daily, what has changed?
Did your fat graft go away? Does sit still bother you? Is there some kind of gag order?

the fat graft will never go away unless cut out

what a silly question to ask her!

Sorry for those of you who are unhappy, but I am someone whose life he saved. My face was butchered by a combination of bad orthodontics combined with a facial fracture which made the effects yet worse. I am one of the success stories pictured on his site. I date my life - at age 43 - as having began the day he corrected the horrendous malformation of my initially beautiful (early childhood) face. I took such a beating from people. I'm white - strangers on the subway would make rude remarks about my appearance. I know how blacks feel in the states, to have people detest you on the basis of physical appearance. Well it's 11 years since the surgery and all holds up well. While I see that what he does is an art - not a science - medicine is an art and things can go wrong - I have to speak up in his defense. My daily life changed like from night to day with the correction of the bone structure. Sadly the human race in the states is as superficial as they seem and appearance is everything. It is such a relief just to have people be friendly and not draw false assumptions about me due to facial characteristics.

I do not believe happy client is real. These plastic surgeons are all blood suckers and pretend to be real people on here. The fat graft is just little lumps that they inject into the skin to make swelling.

I have learned the hard way that a high percentage of doctors, especially plastic surgeons are sociopaths. They are drawn to that profession because they can do whatever they want to people while they are unconscious and they know they can get away with it. Don't believe me? Do a google search on what professions are most represented among murderers. You guessed it - physicians. Three out of 5 plastic surgeons I went to were sociopaths. The first one operated on 20 of the wrong parts - parts I did not consent to surgery on. I ended up disfigured & crippled. The second deliberately damaged one part that I didn't consent to surgery on because he was mad at me. The third did the opposite of what he was supposed to do, then when I gave him a negative rating on ratemds.com, he threatened me with physical harm. He then posted lies about me, saying I wasn't a patient, that I was a former employee who stole drugs from him, that I was a drug addict and extortionist. Then
he had his wife file a phony restraining order against me, saying I threatened to kill her & her children. It was dismissed for lack of evidence. Then he started posting fake reviews of my business, saying I'm a con artist, a fraud, etc. I finally won my malpractice, battery & fraud suit against him, but he is appealing. Continue exposing these [censor], that is the only way to fight them.

People need to see that when they are going to a plastic surgeon they are nothing more than another way for the gnarly old guy to make his money. He (or even she sometimes) has no interest in anything but making money off the person. money first. your requests mean nothing and can be substituted by however the gnarly old guy sees fit.
It is wrong for people to think that an elderly old doctor can make them younger or improve their appearance.
These plastic surgeons are all blood suckers and pretend to be real people on here. The fat graft is just little lumps that they inject into the skin to make swelling.

I compare how you look after fat injecting to how people look after suffering an allergic reaction to hair dye. do an image search on yahoo.

Thank you all for posting this- when I checked him out nothing was mentioned regarding how blotched his procedures are! If it wasn't for Corey Taylor Clegg's comment on Daryl Hannah I would have never stumbled on this- surprising cause it should show up! Anyways, I'm really sorry about what happened and am proud that you'll are speaking up. Thanks for the serious slap on the head! P

I am a victim of this monster! I filed a formal complaint to have it rejected. Why can't he be stopped? Can we picket outside his office?