Piedmont Plastic Surgery & Dermatology

I debated even writing this review because well what do I know I'm not a doctor right? From my first appointment to my last appointment was a total disaster! Dr. Yanez was the third doctor I was going to see in hopes of having a small lipoma on my lower back removed, first appointment he walked in seemed very confident felt my back one time and said let's take it out and walked out, okay seems great, finally a doctor that knows what he is doing and will get this thing out! Scheduled my appointment for the following week and showed up for surgery, I was told that it would be local anesthesia and I shouldn't feel a thing, sounds great, let's do this! The doctor comes in and barely feels my back again and draws out where the removal section will be, he walks out and the nurse begins to administer the local anesthesia shots and let me add those hurt on a whole different level within themselves but I was prepared for that, I told the nurse numerous times I do not want to be able to feel anything at all so please numb it all the way! Seems to be numb as he starts to cut into my back and all is still okay at this time, then as he begins the actual removal he hit something down there and it sent a pain almost like an electric shock through my whole body (sciatic nerve I'm guessing) so I tell him I can feel what he is doing and the nurse starts putting more numbing shots into my back! At this time I'm still ok and he starts again with the removal and not once but two more times he hit something and I could feel a aweful excruciating pain sent through my whole body, i tell them again I could feel what he's doing and they try to numb it two more times ( let me add I know the difference between tugging and pulling and actual pain) anyways I start to panic because well who wouldn't when they are having surgery and you can feel what is going on! Literally had a panic attack almost passed out on that table, still I'm thinking whatever has to be done to just get this lipoma out! Then I hear the words I'm done just gotta stich you up! Wheeew what a relief! So the nurse shows me (because I asked) what was taken out of my back, no lie it looked like 3 small peices of fat tissue! I knew that there was no way it could be the actual lipoma because it was quarter size or bigger! The doctor then says I had To take it out in peices! So of course I'm not a doctor and I'm still panicking from be traumatized during this surgery I trust him and go to check out! So I pay my 80$ after insurance plus the 30$ copay I paid at the first visit and leave! I get to the parking lot and I just start crying....sooo bypass 2 weeks and it is now my checkup appointment day, after the wound had healed and I could finally feel around back there I noticed that the same lump I had felt for 3 years was STILL there, yeap all that for nothing! Of course I would never go through that again so I called the office to let them know and they told me to come in a speak with the doctor so I went! Got there and told the nurse who took me back it was still there and she feels around and says "ohh" I will let him know, doc comes in and ask how everything is going and I say well as far as the cut it is healing nicely but the lipoma is still there, he says "no that's scar tissue I told you you would feel that" I told him it wasn't the tissue I was feeling it was the lump and he feels it and says "ohh that's bone your feeling" I said no sir you don't feel that lump moving around that's the same one I came in to have removed he says "it's your finger moving over it It's not actually moving" "or its swelling and it could take a year to heal"...so at this point I can see I'm obviously fighting a battle I will not win and this doctor was not willing to budge nor listen to what I had to say! I feel like this whole process and procedure was a botched mess, I didn't want the procedure done again, no I didn't want to pay for something that wasn't done correctly, I just wanted him to admit that he did not in fact take out what I came in for and tell me what my options were! 😡

Wonderful staff and doctors. Truly changed my life and the quality of life

Do not go to the Blakeney office! Absolutely horrible experience. Crowded wait area, rude receptionists, and overcharged for a follow up visit.

Doctor and staff were so nice and accommodating. I was about to have skin check, cosmetic consult and Botox in the same visit and all in a timely fashion.

The doctor fir me in his schedule as a new patient and I really appreciate that. Very accurate and efficent. Staff in the the back are very nice.