Facial & Eye Cosmetic Surgery – Dr. Kenneth Steinsapir, M.D.

A friend got botox here and it was the best I’ve seen. Completely natural with long-​lasting results. Super impressed.

Wow!
Last week I had a bit of botox on my forehead. Acutually, what I had is so special that the Dr. is tradmarking the technique. This technique causes your forehead to relax
and your eye area to be lifted. It is AMAZING! What a lovely difference and I am delighted!
Dr. Steinsapir is the perfect mix of doctor and artist. He took his time, was very gentle and sincerely cared about a beautiful outcome.
I’m telling everyone!

Dr. Steinsapir first caught my eye because he had amazing reviews on-​line and no bad ones. I called and emailed with photos since I had a bad bleph (3 lids) that needed to be fixed. I also wanted to see before and after shots. Faith, his wife, told me that in order to see the dr., or get his advice at all, would cost me $ 1,000. She would not send me any before and after shots. Stupidly, I went for the appointment. I was told I had to sign a gag order saying that I wouldn’t post any reviews about my experience with him, which was bad. What kind of doctor makes his patients sign that? I am seriously doubting the legitimacy of his online reviews. I personally saw a negative review on one site immediately get taken down. I went back to read it again the next day and it was gone! Also, he only ever comments on negative reviews. I sought out and talked to others who have had surgery with him and most came out feeling their issues were worsened and not addressed properly. However, you won’t find their comments because they are too afraid to say anything due to the document they signed.
I spent more time with his wife in my consult than the doctor and she gave me a high pressure sales pitch about how wonderful he was. Then I saw him for about 20 minutes. I was also told I would not be able to ask follow-​up questions after my consult. I got my brief time for $ 1000 and that was it. BTW — I paid $ 200 -$ 300 at other oculoplastics for consults. He recommended a surgery that was not suitable for my problem. I took his suggestion to other oculoplastics I saw and they thought his surgical plan was extreme and wouldn’t work. Not to mention it was a ridiculous amount of money. No other highly trained oculoplastics suggested the same plan. His wife then tried to hard sell me on getting some old restylane dissolved (one shot of dissolver) and wanted to charge me $ 2500! I ended up getting it dissolved at another doctor’s office for $ 200 and I’m happy with the results. After seeing the doctor briefly, his wife tried to hard sell me on $ 5000 worth of botox and restylane (which I didn’t need) and she kept pressuring me to book a surgery as soon as possible, not worrying about how I felt about it. All I can say after this-​stay away. All they care about is how much money they can suck from you. Don’t get sucked in by his reviews on the internet. They are not indicative of his true work or character.”

If I could give him a zero I would. He overcharges compared to other well respected doctors such as Derek Jones, who wrote a book on fillers. If he had actually given me some improvement in my undereye area like he claimed he could then the money would have been worth it to me. However instead he put too much filler under my eyes, making them look worse. I had to go back numerous times over several months to have vitrase to disolve the filler and my undereye are was not improved. Alot of the filler ended up in the SOOF area next to my nose making the tear trough look worse and i can still feel a lump after all the vitrase and several months after the treatments.
Several well respected doctors I consulted said they would have only used 1 syringe for both eyes in my case. Read other reviews that mention he overfills. I t is not for your benefit and improvement. It is for his pocketbook. Please speak to other doctors and believe the bad reviews.

Dr. Steinsapir is a good doctor and gets more than a 2 star. But, in order to get to see the doctor you have to go through his office manager, who is his wife. She is controlling and dishonest and does a wallet biopsy to determine how much she thinks she can get away with charging you. She sets an exorbitantly high price and then reduces it, telling you that you are getting a special discount. Even with her «special discount» the prices she sets are easily 3 x higher than other doctors. There should e a set price and everyone should get it, but she is greedy beyond belief.
She is also contorolling beyond belief. She lets the front girl do nothing. The wife stands guard at the front desk and won’t let the front desk girl do anything… I mean anything. She hovers over her and suffocates her. She controls when you see the doctor and if she thinks you aren’t going to spend any money she tells you there is a two month wait or longer. She scolds you if you have to change an appointment or if you call with a problem and she has to squeeze you in. Usually an annoying office manager is no big deal, but this one is so intrusive and controlling over the patients that I had to find a new doctor to do my work.
To boot, the wife tells you that her husband «invented» the microdroplet method of botox, which every doctor I have told this to just laughs. I have to hand it to the wife, she does a good job selling you that her husband is «the best» and she manages to get triple the money for his procedures compared to other doctors I have been to other doctors before him that were just as good and doctors after him that were just as good. There is no reason to pay triple.
Dr. Joseph Stone in Hollywood on Sunset is a dream. Lovely office manager, great prices, same mircrodroplet technique that Steinsapir uses, same price for everyone, honest and not greedy.
Don’t be suckered in by dr. Steinsapir’s wife.

I really like the doctor. I used to go to them a long time ago when they were located by the 405.
So far canceling an appointment for a friend who got the flu… was a bit of a nightmare… But the doctor is awesome.
He is so sweet.
He spent about 2 hrs with me, back and forth talking about weight loss and dentists and all kinds of things. related to facial features… YES I did pay $ 950 for BOTOX which is outrages, but I firmly believe he knows his work.
I have a gf who needs restalin or collagen under her eye and her doctor said he had to do it from the inside… I told her to go to Stenshapir, he has done it for me under the eye before and I was always very pleased.
The doc is 5***** the cancellation nightmare and being scolded by his assistant (I think its his wife) was a 3**** so thats how I arrived to 4.
DO NOT MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOUR FRIENDS! Let them do it for themselves and get into trouble if they cancel :)
PS: She (assistant/​wife?) was super sweet today.
Wach for the update.