I still have nightmares about Mark Lovass. He did my reconstructive surgery after a bilateral mastectomy. Never having had anything like this before it took a few visits to realize he wouldn't listen to me, was pompous, errogant and ignored i had a staff infection. I kept telling him something wasn't right and he did not care. After I found another surgeon who was willing to pick up this mess, I told Lovaas the way I really felt. After that appointment he wrote in the appointment notes that I was being treated for anxiety as if to say this wasn't real. My new surgeon had to undo everything that so called doctor had done . This resulted in many surgeries over a period of five years. If he gets assigned to you, just refuse and wait to see a real human. He was completely unaffected by what my husband and I had to say to him. Every so often I search his name to see if he is still pra timing and low and behold he is still at Park Nicollet 19 years later. Park Nicollet should be ashamed.

As a follow up to my post from 10 years ago….I finally had 2 revisions (by a brilliant nasal surgeon) that were successful in rectifying much of the butchering this evil man did to me. My reconstruction was performed over 3 years and required a two-stage surgical plan. The first surgery was 8 hours and the second was 4.5. It required harvesting rib cartilage, skull fascia, ear cartilage (from both ears) and fat from body to rebuild everything that was aggressively sliced off my face by Dr. Lovaas. He’s a malignant criminal - lying to me as a vulnerable young girl before my adult life had even begun. He claimed he would do this and that - all wonderful things to my nose / face. The horrors he inflicted upon my face were the act of a mentally ill narcissist. He should have to pay for his crimes. My deformities haunted me every time I looked in the mirror for the past 30 years. After these past two serious surgeries, performed by my brilliant surgeon, I am so beyond grateful - every day. It was a very expensive process and required me to travel monthly to follow up on my care, but worth every cent, time, heartache, physical risk, pain and energy I spent on fixing it. This person should be prosecuted for the abundance of pain he has caused in my life with his grossly negligent misrepresentations.

I had a mini facelift and upper eye lift in 1999 by Dr. Lovaas. He left noticeable scars around the backs of my ears and at the nape of my neck, but since it was my first time having surgery I didn’t know it was a mistake. Two years ago I decided to have the bags under my eyes repaired but the surgeon I used screwed up and I went back to Dr Lovaas to fix them. He was excited to tell me how much fat grafting would soften my features and he could fix my eyes at the same time. To keep this short, after $15,000 dollars my body reabsorbed all the fat that was injected into my face and the “repair” to my eyes look worse than when I first came in. Dealing with Covid Lock Downs just exasperated my communication with him. He said he would re-do the work on my eyes, but I’ve lost confidence in him and cringe at the thought of what other things I could have used that money.

I went to him for botox and got a horrible "botox glare" after he used a stamp-like injector across my forehead. The result was me looking very angry, and I couldn't raise my eyes to look upward. I was so upset by the way I looked that I went back to his office at Park Nicollet for help. Another doctor in his office saw me but offered nothing. Two jerks doctors in the same place--no help at all, horrible patient care. I received no help at all. I ended up going back to someone who, at the time, worked at Zel Skin who knew just what to do. She was able to loosen up the awful tightness in my forehead. Beware who gives you botox!

I had a face lift adnfat grafts to my face. I look 15 years younger and so natural. I do not look like I had any work done

I was 17 when I decided to get an augmentation - one breast was a B and one was a big C and I wanted them to match. I wasn’t interested in implants so I wanted to get the larger one reduced, but Dr Lovass talked me into an implant on the smaller side. He said I’d regret it some day if I went the other way. I explained to him I’ve never wanted big breasts and I feel I’d be happier with one reduced. I didn’t want an implant but he suggested it was the best way to go. The surgery went like this: small incision on left breast and implant. Completely remove nipple on right and replace it higher on breast in hopes for nipples to line up. After the surgery, I was still very unhappy. I felt my scarring on the larger breast (L) was horrible and it made my nipple look huge in comparison to the other. And I felt they still weren’t very close to the same size. When I went back in to tell him my concerns, he first said I couldn’t expect them to match perfectly (which I wasn’t expecting that but was hoping for something closer) the scarring would eventually fade and that if I wanted them closer to the same size he suggested I lose weight. WHAT THE HELL KIND OF DOCTOR TELLS A 150LB 17 YEAR OLD TO LOSE WEIGHT?!? (I secretly struggled with bulimia at the time and was on the mend, but totally fell back into it after that until I was in my early 20s.) I left in tears and felt helpless and have seen other surgeons to correct the issue but haven’t found one I trust to better my scarring yet..emotional and physical. I’m terrified to go through that again. AND I STILL PREFER THE SMALLER BOOB... I’m now 33, my implant has since deflated so my breasts are back to their lopsided selves but now I have stretch marks (that I got after the surgery) and a scarred nipple that looks way bigger than it should. This experience has haunted me ever since. I have never been comfortable with my breasts and fear I never will be. GO WITH YOUR GUT and don’t ever let anyone tell you what you want with your own body is wrong. Please do your research. There are always other option

He did my facelift it was a fantastic change for me . He is amazingly talented

Dr, Mark Lovaas did upper and lower eye lid surgery for me. The surgery went horribly wrong! I had a build up of bloody fluid in my eyes and could not see for 6 weeks. Although my vision did come back, I was very scared about losing my eye sight! I felt that Dr. Lovaas rushed through my surgery and cut something he should not have. He did apologize to me and said this had never happened to a patient before. My left eye lid still droops, but I wouldn't trust Dr. Lovaas to correct the problem.

As a health care professional, I have high standards that we're over exceeded by Dr. Mark Lovaas and his staff. The day of my surgery I greeted immediately then moved quickly through the process while educated step by step with friendly and skilled staff. My family were met by Dr. Lovaas after my surgery where he gave them a detailed explanation of my procedure and recovery. I would highly recommend Dr. Lovaas and his staff to anyone thinking of plastic surgery.

He is a criminally negligent surgeon. He massacred my nose. He lied to my face about what he was capable of doing. He inflicted irreparable damage to my nostrils leaving them asymmetrical, removed my entire nasal spine, removed almost my entire tip leaving me with a "supratip beak deformity", removed the top portion of my bridge leaving almost nothing behind, and left me with hideous nostril scars. He told me that the reason I have two completely different nostrils is because he had so much trouble performing the surgery and that he kept cutting and re-suturing my left nostril over and over again. He is incredibly arrogant, which makes him delusional about his capacity as a surgeon. When I discussed the botched nose job he gave me, he said, "everyone has cases with unfavorable results...I am not the only one." He shouldn't be allowed to practice, which is precisely what he did to me - practice. I never sued him because I was so upset about what happened that I didn't want to think about it - I couldn't face it (literally). I finally had a world renowned surgeon in another state revise what was able to be revised, which was limited based on the damage (cost me $22,000.) The damage was so severe it required grafts and surgery in stages. I will never be the same. This was a simple reduction rhinoplasty that turned into a nightmare.