If you want to pay the most money possible to go to a doctor who will do the exact opposite of what you ask him to do, then Torumi is your man. He has the worst personality — he is cold, arrogant, and spends less than 5 minutes with his patients.
He is extremely over rated due to the fact that he writes lots of literature on nasal reconstruction. However, being highly published does not mean he has the skill to back things up.
I went to him for nasal reconstruction after I was butchered by another doctor. Dr. Toriumi is considered the best reconstructive surgeon in the world — or at least that's how is hyped to be.
However, maybe it's that he constantly changes his lab rat experiments and is continually trying new things on humans — but for the past several years —he's created more and more miserably unhappy deformed and botched patients who cannot be fixed thanks to his Frankenstein methods.
Many, many who have gone to him in the past few years for nasal revision or reconstruction has had their septums removed and replaced with rib. They have also gotten alar base reductions — without their informed consent. The rib instead of septum makes the nose crooked and veer to the left. The alar base reductions make the nostrils weird little circle shapes instead of the natural oval. Plus the nostrils are assymetrical and have very visible scars on the outside of them.
Dean Toriumi puts grafts in the wrong places. He puts alar batten grafts on almost everyone — without trimming them or tucking them in. This leaves noses looking super wide and flat. He doesn't seem to know how to properly graft a tip.
Toriumi's aesthetic preference is for blunt Asian lookng tips with no columella and very little projection. Even though before surgery — Toriumi promises to his patients that he will give them the style of nose they request, he usually does the exact opposite. He almost always makes radixes so high, they look like the nose is coming straight out of the forehead. The high radixes also make the eyes look small and sunken.
Toriumi is a complusive liar — he does not deliver on his promises and he contradicts himself all the time. He has the personality of someone with bipolar disorder — being that I have a psychology degree — that is how I would label him.
Their are many better reconstructive nasal surgeons out there that charge half the price or even much less than half of what Toriumi charges. There's Dr. Guyron, Dr. Andrew Frankel, Dr. Norman Pasterok, Dr. Steven Perkins, etc.
Dean Toriumi is over rated and over hyped. There is a support group for his many unhappy patients who are suffering from post traumatic stress from what he did to him. There are over 20 people in this group, including myself. We are all trying to find a doctor who can fix the wide, crooked, monolithic mess that Toriumi left on our faces.
Dean Toriumi is like a used car salesman. He makes false promises and overcharges you for a lemon. Then, he blames his patients for their horrendous outcomes. He claims that they should push on the sides of their noses every day for 10 minutes every hour — for over a year after their surgery. Then, when they tell him their noses are still crooked, he claims it's because they did not push on their noses enough. Or they didn't fly out to Chicago every 2 weeks for the year following their surgery.
(FYI — If one flies out to see him — he looks at them for about 10 seconds, and tells them to keep pushing on their nose. Then he tells them to come back in another 2 weeks for him to check on the progress.)
For a typical reconstructive surgeryToriumi charges $20,000 — that's just his fee, plus an extra $10,000 plus for anesthesia. Then he expects his patients to fly out to see him for follow ups all the time. Toriumi is a mad scientist who has fallen off of his rocker. He's kind of like Jack Gunter who at time was also put up on a pedistal, but then lost all the respect of his peers and collegues after he continually botched people.
If anyone's interested in checking out what Toriumi's peers think of him — they should call Dr. Richard Davis in Fl, Dr. Jay Calvert, Dr. Rollin Daniels, Dr. Andrew Frankel — all in California, or Dr. Perkins, Dr. Golden and Dr. Guyron in the midwest. All of these doctors have been receiving herds of Toriumi patients for consults to get their Toriumi noses fixed.
Over two years ago, Toriumi sued a hotel (I believe the Four Seasons) — for permanent damages to his hand. He got an injury that, according to his lawsuit prevents him from performing surgery normally. This lawsuit can also be looked up online. Anway, perhaps this is one reason he keeps messing peoples' faces up.
The photos on his web page are not accurate representations of typical Toriumi noses. He does have a professional photographer who uses special lighting, etc. To create illusions of a straight nose. But, from the many, many Toriumi noses I've seen in person at the Toriumi support group meetings, I can tell you the noses on his web page look absolutely nothing like what he really does to people.
Charles
Santa Monica, California
U.S.A.
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