Complaint / Review
Dean Toriumi
Toriumi is a Horrible Evil Man

I was one of many who made the unfortunate mistake to go to Richard Ellenbogen. Ellenbogen chopped my nose almost completely off; all of the internal anatomy was removed and my chin was also butchered by him.

I had read that Dean Toriumi was the only doctor who could fix noses ruined by Ellenbogen. There is a picture of a lady (Nora) on several web pages who had gotten mutilated Ellenbogen and then got fixed by Toriumi. So, I felt hopeful that Toriumi could help me.

However, Toriumi actually made my nose even worse; he stuffed a lot of rib grafts to make my nose extremely wide, flat and crooked. My tip was not rebuilt at all. Toriumi created 3 visible scars on the outside of my nose and 2 extra on my body.

He also did not properly repair my chin. I was devasted by the whole thing as Toriumi promised me that he could and would reconstruct my chin and nose.

I could tell even when the cast was on that my nose had not been reconstructed and that it did not have a tip. When I asked Toriumi about this, he said, "I did the best I could... I was not able to rebuild your tip... But I was able to improve the width..." I told him that I never asked for it to be wider...

Then, after the cast came off, I was so horrified, I fainted. I called Toriumi to talk with him, and he would not return my calls. So, when I went to his office,
he said to me, "I did the best I could. If you are not happy, then don't look in the mirror, and don't think about your face. If I couldn't fix you, no one else will be able to either. I am the best, and there's no one better. So don't even bother trying to go to someone else because it will end up even worse and your nose will rot off your face if you have another surgery." Then, Toriumi walked out on me while I was trying to respond to him.

I have never met anyone ruder, more arrogant and nastier than Dr. Toriumi.

I have been feeling suicidal and hopeless ever since.

Please Beware of Dean Toriumi — Like Richard Ellenbogen — Toriumi has lots of phony positive testimonials and ratings. Both of them use the media and the internet to publish things to make themselves seem credible. Both of them somehow have gotten awards in magazines. Most likely they paid the magazines for these awards.

Horrified
Newport Beach, California
U.S.A.