Dr. Dean Toriumi ,UIC Department Of Otolaryngology Very bad experince with functional and cosmetic rhinoplasty, not worth what I paid for Chicago Illinois

I went to Dr. Toriumi for a nose revision, something that was not too hard to fix except for a few minor things. I previously had a bad rhinoplasty in in 2005 that left me with a collapsed tip, I basically needed rebuilding only on my tip. I came across Dr. Toriumi through boards and through his website. Everyone claimed at that time that he was "the best revision doctor in the world" and so I trusted in this and also by his good revision pictures on his website; which according to me are completely outdated and do not reflect the work he does now, which is horrible.

My experience with him has been an eye opener and very dissapointing. He is not the "best" as people believe he is. My nose is worse off than before. I had a bad rhinoplasty and after going to him I came out worse, with a worse looking nose, twisted, my rib graft warped, my tip crooked, and my supratip crooked, I came out way worse than before, my nose had always been straight and pretty symmetrical. I wish I had never gone to him. He completely ripped me off and made me much more less attractive after having paid him out of pocket $20,000 for his cosmetic fee. I dont understand why he practices plastic surgery when in fact he is not certified in plastic surgery but is only an ENT specialist who has no sense of aesthetic taste.

He claims on his webpage that he does not have a standard aesthetic when in fact he does have "his own standard aesthetics" which is a high radix, low deprojected tip, and a wide nose that is a overgrafted nose that takes years to deswell and maybe never deswells. He overgrafts noses for no logical reason. His techniques are not good and leaves many of his patients noses crooked at the end.

I've communicated with at least 30 unhappy patients with the same problems, such as crookedness that I have. Many of us had never had crooked noses before and after going to him the majority of us ended with crooked noses. All of us have been ripped off by this "doctor" who has been not helpful to us at all and has done more damage than good. My nose is more botched than before after going to him. He replaced my entire septum with rib grafts, my entire tip with rib grafts, everything on my nose is now rib. None of it is mine. Why he did that? I don't understand.

I had never asked for a high radix, and he gave it to me. I asked for my tip to be rebuilt but he did not rebuild my tip. All the things I asked this doctor to do were never followed through. He just does what he wants and creates the same "monolithic caveman noses" to all his patients now. Dr. DEAN TORIUMI is a complete RIPOFF!!!!

Ali
Silver Spring, Maryland
U.S.A.