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Miami Herald
16-07-2025
- Health
- Miami Herald
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. MORE: Miami plastic surgery center suspended for inadequate drugs, BBL patient exams 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. MORE: Why did a Miami plastic surgery center get suspended? Illegal liposuction 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.' READ MORE: Unfit gas passer in Broward BBL death lost her license. The surgeon hasn't ▪ 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.
Miami Herald
15-06-2025
- Health
- Miami Herald
Miami plastic surgery center suspended for inadequate drugs, BBL patient exams
'Perfection' starts the name of a Sunny Isles Beach plastic surgery center that fell short enough of its name in patient safety violations to get its license suspended for 30 days. From a suite in the high rise at 16690 Collins Ave., Perfection Plastic Surgery & Med Spa sells Brazilian butt lifts (BBL), breast jobs, mommy makeovers and penis augmentation. But, Perfection got put on hiatus until July 12 for lacking the drugs an office surgery center should have, inadequate BBL patient exams among other violations. Management refused comment when a Miami Herald reporter dropped by the office. State corporate records say Perfection's run by president Iris Kogan and Angela Kogan is its registered agent. Perfection inspection problems Perfection received office surgery registration license OSR1709 on Sept. 19, 2022 and received a Florida Department of Health inspection visit on Dec. 6, 2022. An administrative complaint was filed Aug. 16, 2024 listing the major problems found. ▪ The crash cart, the cart with the medical emergency equipment, lacked required drugs: Atropine 3 mg, used for dangerously slowing heart rate, according to the University of North Carolina; Epinephrine 1mg in 10ml, which treats increased heart rate and possibly fatal allergic reactions; Dextrose 50%; 50 ml, which treats hypoglycemia, a dangerous drop in glucose. ▪ Perfection didn't have benzodiazepine, which the Cleveland Clinic defines as 'medications that make your nervous system less active.' ▪ Perfection's risk management program, 'on one or more noncompliant' or, at the time of inspection, nonexistent. ▪ Before a surgery, surgeons should, in writing, let the patient know of a hospital where the surgeon can perform the same surgery about to be done at Perfection or the hospital where the surgeon or Perfection has a transfer agreement. Perfection's surgeons — which aren't listed on the website, unlike most other surgery centers — didn't do the above, at least once. The Florida Department of Health returned in August 2023 for another inspection in which the violations were detailed in a December 2024 administrative complaint. ▪ The crash cart still didn't have the Atropine and Dextrose, but now also was bereft of Magnesium sulfate 2 grams, also called 'epsom salts' which treats a variety of seizures and heart rate abnormalities; and Lidocaine, 100 mg, which treats 'life-threatening arrhythmias,' North Carolina said. ▪ At least one, possibly more, surgeons doing BBLs 'failed to conduct an in-person examination of a patient no later than the day before the patient's procedure.'
