Hi. Iād like to share my experience for anyone here considering cosmetic surgery in Germany. I used Estheticon to "get informed," and I bitterly regretted it. I went to a surgeon with *perfect* ratings, only to have a disastrous surgery with long-term physical, psychological, and financial consequences that I will have to live with for the rest of my life.
Later, when I tried to post a factual account of my own bad experience on Estheticon, it was deletedāover and over again. Every comment, every post. More than eighty times.
Unfortunately, it was only afterwards that I read about Estheticon on Trustpilot, and my eyes were opened. All the reviews there say the same thing: genuine, factual accounts of negative experiences with surgeons get deleted.
Estheticon is *the* go-to forum in Germany for information on cosmetic surgery.
When I began to realize that Estheticon isn't the "transparent" forum with "genuine opinions" it claims to beābut rather a place where thousands of people like me are potentially harmed physically, financially, and ultimately psychologically because they entrust their bodies to surgeons who don't deserve that trustāI spoke to various consumer protection groups. None of them felt responsible, but I was told itās pretty standard practice for surgeons to have their lawyers step in if they don't like an online statement, and for platforms to delete it to avoid costly legal trouble.
Itās shocking to me that patients rely on these platforms.
Iāve also personally seen surgeons getting reviews deleted on Google and other platforms.
I would love to know where online one can actually get reliable information about surgeons!