16-07-2025
Could illegal butt lifts get a Miami plastic surgery center suspended again?
Although a Sunny Isles Beach plastic surgery center ended a 30-day license suspension Saturday, don't expect anyone there to exhale in relief — another state complaint alleging illegal Brazilian butt lifts and inadequate patient pre-op care has been filed.
And that could lead to another suspension of Perfection Plastic Surgery & Med Spa.
Perfection declares itself the 'No. 1 Celebrity Plastic Surgery Center + Med Spa in Miami and Las Vegas,' but the Florida Department of Health found Perfection well short of that slogan and its name over inspections in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Some of the violations found last year repeat violations found on the two earlier inspections that earned Perfection, 16690 Collins Ave., Suite 702, its 30-day suspension.
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As the designated physician, the doctor in charge of rules compliance at Perfection, Dr. Christian Quintero got hit with an administrative complaint with the same violations detailed in the complaint against Perfection. Neither Perfection nor Quintero responded to emails asking for comment on this complaint.
Perfection's lone officer listed in state records is President Iris Kogan. Perfection doesn't list its doctors on its website, as many plastic surgery centers do. If you want to know who's authorized to perform surgery on you at Perfection, you'll have to go to the staff list on the center's Department of Health license entry.
As of now, in addition to Quintero, medical doctors authorized to work at Perfection are Jason Dudas, Benjamin Eskenazi and Jadrien Young.
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Perfection inspection
The inspection that spawned the current administrative complaint happened on Aug. 22, 2024. According to the complaint, the inspector found the following violations:
▪ Perfection's crash cart, the cart loaded with drugs and equipment in case of emergency, 'was missing the required sodium bicarbonate 50 mEq/50 ml.' Crash carts have sodium bicarbonate, the University of North Carolina said, to 'correct low blood pH due to metabolic acidosis' and symptoms from low potassium.
▪ Perfection's detector for measuring the carbon dioxide at the end of each breath was expired.
▪ 'Perfection did not have a risk management program at the time of the inspection.'
▪ On June 7, 2024, Quintero 'performed liposuction, breast augmentation, and gluteal fat grafting on Patient S without conducting an in-person examination of the patient no later than the day before the procedure, without performing an immediate pre-operative examination of the patient, or without documenting these examinations in the patient's medical record.' 'Gluteal fat grafting' is the medical name for a Brazilian butt lift.
▪ On July 19, 2024, Quintero 'performed liposuction on Patient M, which removed more than 1,000cc of supernatant fat, in combination with fat transfer to the buttocks, chest, and deltoids, and nipple repositioning.' The limit on removing supernatant fat, fat 'floating on the surface of a sediment or precipitate,' says, is 1,000cc.
▪ During the same procedure, Quintero did a Brazilian butt lift 'without conducting an in-person examination of the patient no later than the day before the procedure, or without documenting such an examination in the patient's medical record.' Also, Quintero did the BBL 'without using, or without documenting the use of, ultrasound guidance.'
▪ The same day, with Patient 3, Quintero did a BBL 'without conducting an in-person examination of the patient no later than the day before the procedure and without performing an immediate pre-operative examination of the patient, or without documenting these examinations in the patient's medical record.'
▪ Perfection's 'surgical logs were missing required information for several patients between Feb. 9, 2024,and July 14, 2024, including the practitioner who performed the medical clearance; the duration of the surgery; diagnosis; patient's American Society of Anesthesiologists classification; and the type of anesthesia used.'
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▪ Several patients between June 7, 2024, and July 19, 2024, didn't receive in writing from the surgeon the name and address of a hospital where the surgeon has privileges to do the same surgery, if necessary. They also didn't get the name and address of a hospital with which the surgeon or Perfection has a transfer agreement.
