Surgical pitfalls
| Field | Medicine |
|---|---|
| Also known as | botched, revision cascade
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Surgical pitfalls in looksmaxxing-era male work are patterned. This page is a warning label, not a scare essay.
Recurring failures
- Wish-list surgery. Canthal tilt + wraparound jaw + LeFort + rhino + buccal in one trip. Swelling hides disaster until it does not.
- Wrong order. Rhino on a recessed mandible; buccal fat before a cut that would have hollowed the face anyway.
- Stock implants for a 3D problem. Chin implant only; gaps at the body; "discontinuous jaw."
- Lid incisions for midface implants. Infraorbital implant → lower-lid retraction → more surgery.
- Cannot-remove implants. Bone overgrowth around a wraparound (described in long public patient logs after Michael Yaremchuk-style jaws). Plan for the next decade, not the next selfie.
- Mill tourism. High-volume Turkey medical tourism and similar: some excellent named surgeons, many broker-driven packages with no revision path when you are home.
- Surgeon shopping by Instagram. Filters, borrowed B&As, no board certification, no hospital privileges.
- Doing hardmax to treat blackpill. A plate will not fix a verdict. If a surgeon will not refuse you, find another surgeon.
What "known to the community" means
Looksmax.org and similar boards circulate a small English-language circuit (Barry Eppley, Yaremchuk, later Ort, various rhinos and hair docs). Circulation is not a gold-star. Read revision threads as well as hero B&As. This wiki names the circuit so you can search; it does not rank.