Question:
Has anyone used dr. robert jetter in nyc for LBL?

what was your experience? are you happy with the results? How long a recovery?    — kim F. (posted on November 2, 2004)

November 2, 2004
I met Dr. Jetter at my support group meeting last month. I also know several who have used him for arms and TT's but not LBL. People love him, but I thought he was a bit arrogant, suggesting that post-ops may need to have their surgeries in 2 stages (another word for having a revision). He may be a good surgeon, but I was not impressed with his attitude. I have seen some good scars from him and some not so good. I used someone else foo\r my TT.
   — Fixnmyself

November 2, 2004
I also met Dr. Jetter last month in a support group meeting and I was extremely impressed with him and did not find him arrogant at all. In fact I found him a bit of a perfectionist which I was very impressed with. His reasoning behind the "2" surgeries is to get all of the excess skin which may not be possible to get the first time around if there is a lot of excess skin. He wants people to be happy with their surgery results and sounds like he will go to great lengths to make people happy. I have a consultation with him in December and have talked with 3 different people from this Board who were very impressed and happy with Dr. Jetter's results. Also at the meeting there was a woman who had her arms done and a LBL with Dr. Jetter and was very happy with the results and the scars. I saw her arm scars and they looked great. You have to meet him yourself and get a fix on whether he would be right for you. Like I said, I was very impressed with him and I am not easy to impress! I should also note that he stayed after the meeting and spoke with me for about 30 minutes about the different procedures and plastic surgery in general. I thought that was very gracious as well. Good luck and feel free to email me if you want to compare notes. I also have an appt with Dr. Abramson in December.
   — kimkny