Sherrell J. Aston M.D. Plastic Surgery

I had two fantastic consultations with Dr. Aston back in Nov 2014. He has perfect bedside manner — neither too formal nor too casual and great Southern warmth. I liked everything I came across, from the busy Irish receptionist to the wise, bespectacled patient co-​ordinator (even their patient washroom is gorgeous — I took photos!) Even though I decided not to have surgery with Dr. Aston in the end (in retrospect I wish I had, but I’ll save that for another post), he gave me great advice and was more helpful than any other doctor I visited. His assistant handed me Dr. Aston;s cell number as I left and said I could call him anytime — I tried my luck by asking a question via text message and he called me back 10 minutes later to answer my question. I would not expect that level of attentiveness from a regular surgeon, let alone one with the kind of reputation this guy has. 5 star. Go see him!

there was no mistake i suffered for years, it was doctor aston and his team who did nothing and now trying to say there is no record, nothing but lies, He lied telling me he was going to help me stalled so time will pass and i would not sue them. He lied then and he is lying now. to this day i am walking around with one side of my face up and the other down and one eye bigger then the other and two lumps under my eyes. You think he would try to help instead now he is saying he does not know me. one of the residents at the time felt bad because of what they did and tried to help me. he worked under Aston, he is nothing but a park ave lier who cares nothing about people

Both Dr. Aston and Alix his PA have done my Botox in the past when I lived in NYC and a little lip filler too. Dr Aston is a master at his craft who really understands the concept of true and natural beauty as you can see in his work, and Alix is a very skilled PA injector. You can’t go wrong here!

poor post op care. wasnt even around to take bandages off and see how im healing. the secretary took out my stitches. his anesthologist is horrible and was very nasty to me the day of surgery and told me to shut up and go to bed when giving me iv
this a dog pound or what? run far away from dr aston… dont risk your life with him. hope this helps in making a decision in choosing the right dr…
i would google his creditability and his criminal background if i was you.

Dr. Aston is an incredible plastic surgeon. I got my nose done with him two years ago and I couldn’t be happier!!! He’s extremely professional, nice, and caring. I felt so safe under his care. I recommend him to all my friends and I’m proud to say I had rhinoplasty.

I was referred to Dr Aston by a client of mine that works in the OR. She said he was the best in the business, but besides all that he is a very down to earth and funny man. :) He and his staff were amazing and made me feel right at home. I am very pleased with my experience and will definitely use him again in the future as well as refer him to all my friends.

Terrible doctor, and of very poor character. Shame on him.
Dr. Aston performed a very botched rhinoplasty on me when I was 17. My nose turned out crooked and very collapsed on one side to the point where I couldn’t breathe. It also had an overall unnatural appearance due to an «open-​roof deformity» caused by the surgeon overly resecting the bridge and not realigning the bones properly. Valve collapses and open-​roofs such as this are apparently common mistakes made by bad and/​or inexperienced surgeons. Except that Dr. Aston had many years of experience and was somehow on the list of top plastic surgeons, so I didn’t exactly expect those types of problems.
I returned and he denied that there was any problem and kind of blamed my anatomy, saying that some people are just asymmetrical, even though it was not like that pre-​surgery. I was young and naively trusted him given his reputation, and I just lived uncomfortably for a few years. I returned for another office visit, and he again denied that there was any problem. He claimed that my inferior turbinate (inner structure deep in nasal passage) was enlarged on that side and said it would help if he removed it. Again, I was naïve and made the mistake to trust him. Not only was there no improvement after that surgery, but I started having chronic congestion and infections, which I at first thought were due to allergies or environmental issues of some sort. I never connected these problems to the surgery until I finally saw an ENT, and he put the pieces of the puzzle together.
It turns out that completely removing the turbinate, as Aston did, is actually considered MALPRACTICE, as my ENT and a second doctor (both actually double boarded as plastic surgeons AND ENTs) informed me. The breathing problem was clearly due to the valve collapse from Aston’s initial surgery. And as he should have known, turbinates may occasionally be reduced in rare cases, but not since the 1950s has it been standard practice to remove the entire thing. Since then, it was well known that the turbinates play essential roles in proper airflow (google «empty nose syndrome» or talk to any ENT worth their salt). Anyway, I wound up permanently losing my sense of smell (which is what led me to see the ENT), most likely due to the chronic dryness and uneven airflow that results from turbinate removal, which sets the stage for chronic infections. Chronic infections can eventually lead to permanent damage to the olfactory epithelium located high up in the nasal cavity, and this is what mostly likely happened in my case according to my doctors.
I eventually had a revision rhinoplasty done, but I first went back to Aston to ask if he would contribute to the cost of the revision since he clearly botched things so badly, not once but twice. I knew it was a long shot, but he at least deserved to be confronted, now that this was finally all clarified by the other doctors. He first had the nerve, or genuine ignorance (some of both I think) to flat out deny each and all of the problems that my doctors had spelled out. By the time I left, for some reason, perhaps to seem reasonable in front of his assistant who was in the room or to his colleagues who would hear about it, he agreed to consider paying and said he’d speak with the surgeon who would be doing the revision and get back to me. It was hard to tell whether Dr. Aston either truly did not know that you’re not supposed to remove the turbinate, OR if he was just blatantly lying. Either way, extremely unimpressive. The surgeon who did the revision mentioned to me that he had a similar experience when he spoke with Aston about this.
Giving him the «benefit of the doubt,» even if he removed the turbinate out of genuine ignorance, there is absolutely no way he didn’t see the obvious aesthetic problems. He still chose to simply deny everything, despite the open-​roof and collapsed side being so plainly visible. It was ridiculous, and he knew it. Adding insult to injury, he ignored all attempts to get an answer about covering the revision cost, even after I sent him a copy of the surgery report, which detailed that the problems corrected were clearly caused by the original surgery. Long story, but he had reliable assurance that I wasn’t suing him, so there were no valid reasons from a legal standpoint for not acknowledging responsibility. Purely an ego issue.
Dr. Aston did an outdated and harmful surgery either out of ignorance or as an attempt to cover up his initial screw-​up, failed to take any responsibility for either, and lied repeatedly. Completely unacceptable, as a physician and as a human being.