I have written about my experience of FFS with Ann Sluzky AKA Анна Вадимовна Слуцкая. Unfortunately since making that post it has become increasing clear that I was also a victim of ghost surgery. After being tipped off by another unhappy patient who saw my reddit post, I discovered one year post op that the man introduced to me as Sluzky's surgical assistant, whom I now know to be a Dr Edgar Fridlender posted photos and videos of me taken on the operating table to his professional social media without my knowledge or consent. The posts included one that used a thumbnail image of Fridlender working on my nose whilst someone out of shot assists him along with multiple before and after photos and videos of my un-obscured face. Also posted were before and after posts of several other FFS patients faces which were obvious from the bandages for their forehead work. I contacted Dr Fridlender to remove the posts including my face, of which there were several, politely asking and thanking him when he did so. Whilst initially obliging the request, Fridlender started giving me a bad attitude about my request despite him having violated my privacy as a patient by not having consent. Which is a clear breach of medical ethics.
This surgeon's social media presents him as a rhinoplasty specialist with no mention of Facemaker/Sluzky, or facial feminsation surgery.
I can confirm this person is me due to the forehead bandage from the forehead reconstruction I had performed, the date (a few days after my operations) and how many times Sluzky remarked at the shortness of my hair stating that she had never done the forehead procedure on someone with such short hair. It is very, very obviously me as other photos taken at that time can confirm.
As you can see this surgeon, Edgar Fridlender, is not mentioned on my surgical report as even being present during my surgery.
It would be one thing if the work performed was good. Unfortunately the now fully healed result is both aesthetically and functionally poor, with internal valve collapse, unflattering changes that I had not agreed to with Dr Sluzky and defects related to overzealous work. Dr Fridlender seems to follow the barbie nose social media trend, a completely different style to the noses Sluzky shows on her website and what was shown to me in Sluzky's simulation of my FFS. Regardless of the changes being inappropriate for my face, I am not a fan of his work at all and would never have chosen it for myself. He also appears to be very new to this surgery with zero long term before and after results posted to his social media, indeed as you can see one of his employers describe himself as finishing a medical residency as recently as 2023 (my surgery was in early March 2023). I paid and walked into the surgical theatre expecting to be operated on by a surgeon who lists over a decade of experience and having specifically trained in feminisation rhinoplasty, instead I was operated on by this slimy Instagram chancer.
Update: Nose confirmed as trashed internally by an experienced Harley Street ENT
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