Botox and Dermal Filler review for Calvin Lee, MD Modesto, CA. November 2013.
The review can be found here: https://plus.google.com/102548094439476506081/about?gl=US&hl=en-US
I have saved other (older) plastic surgery and botox reviews here.
Thank you very much for the Botox and Juvederm and Boletero review. It’s very much appreciated. And I will continue to do my best to improve and live up to those high standards written in these very kind reviews.
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I just got started looking at Yelp about 2 weeks ago. It got my attention because all of a sudden it started appearing on Google searches for the term “Botox Modesto” or “Modesto Botox“. Then I searched other cities such as San Francisco – “San Francisco Botox” and the Yelp search comes up pretty much first. What is this about? Yelp is taking over the world I suppose. So, I decided to consider taking it seriously. I saw that I already had about 2-3 reviews, and some filtered reviews. So, I decided to try to read about some of the filtered reviews and get people to write reviews to see what got filtered. I even tried to write my own Yelp review – at least I wrote it with my name (Calvin L.) – didn’t do one of those undercover things and change my name. Apparently you get filtered if you write your own review – fine – I understand the reasoning.
So I looked at the characteristics of what got “filtered” by Yelp. I think what others were saying were true:
Red flags that might get you filtered on Yelp:
Okay so those things make some sense – yelp want to filter out fake people – or people who don’t exist.
I found another pattern.
It seems like Yelp likes people who are stingy with 5 star reviews. If you blasted someone with a 1 star, 2 star or perhaps gave 3 or 4 stars instead of the full 5, yelp values your reviews somewhat more than someone who frequently gives out all 5 stars. Thus stingy reviewers get filtered less.
So do what you will with this pattern that I think I found. Maybe we should be stingy with 5 star reviews on yelp. Thus when we do give out 5 star reviews – they stick and don’t get filtered by the all mighty Yelp.
Calvin Lee, MD
One more thing to help avoid getting your reviews filtered – write some mediocre reviews too. I think if you’re all 5 starsy, Yelp thinks you’re fake and thus might get filtered. But please don’t bash people unnecessarily. I personally prefer to give people all 5 stars and those that don’t deserve 5 stars, I’m kinda quiet. So for now, Yelp has filtered every single one of my 7 reviews. That’s too bad. I really don’t like discussing my gripes in public, but I don’t own Yelp and Yelp doesn’t live in my house. I thought Facebook was confusing. Yelp’s confusing too.
Meanwhile, I’ll continue to edit my filtered review posts to see what else I find out about the world of filtered reviews in Yelp.
For now – the secret? Be stingy with your Yelp stars.
I tend to get wordy – scroll down to the bottom for the summary of the three worthy FaceBook pages related to Surgical Artistry in Modesto, CA.
This is confusing because somehow FaceBook has a page created for Surgical Artistry – but regardless of how I try to “edit” that page – it doesn’t take my “suggestion” for redirecting to a page we created – which we consider the “official” Surgical Artistry FaceBook Page.
www.FaceBook.com/ModestoPlasticSurgery – I figured that Modesto Plastic Surgery described best what we did. Looking at our services – there is more to Surgical Artistry than just Plastic Surgery.
However after a while, some of my patients thought I (Calvin Lee, MD) should have a page of my own relating to Botox, Juvederm, and other Dermal Fillers. So we created: www.FaceBook.com/BotoxModesto. On this page we talk about things like cannulas for cosmetic injections, dermal fillers for lip augmentation, and perhaps even cosmetic acupuncture. this page is more related to the stuff I do, but with a slant on cosmetic injections and dermal fillers.
Worth mentioning is my “personal” FB page – everyone is welcome to find me there.
The URL is www.FaceBook.com/Modesto – I like Modesto so much that yes, it has become my FaceBook vanity URL.
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My list of 9 habits of “Highly Successful MD Cosmetic Injectors.” I’ve spent the last few months hovering around internationally renown MD Cosmetic Injectors. I participated at a Palette Injectors meeting / training for Level III injectors in Sacramento, and I also at the 2013 Vegas Cosmetic Surgery Meeting.
This is my partial collection of empty Botox bottles.
1. Most of the MD injectors are the injectors of their practice without delegating to a nurse or PA
2. They are constantly looking for newer and better ways to do things.
3. They are eager to explore new products.
4. They selectively use cannulas for some of their injections.
5. They are very willing to share / talk / publish.
6. They make injections a priority in their practice.
7. They often go back to basics which includes knowing the anatomy, and exploring new anatomical concepts.
8. They are not be afraid to show off their grey hair – but will make some attempt to hide their wrinkles.
9. Most importantly they do not view fillers or Botox as a COMMODITY. In other words, it’s not a Botox per unit price or cost per syringe of Juvederm (the PRODUCTS), rather it’s the injector’s SKILL which is the true value. And this is how they provide the best VALUE – through the best skill and materials.
There are also a great number of amazing Nurse and Physician Assistant injectors. I haven’t had the opportunity to attend sessions and lectures by them (yet – I’d like to see what makes them successful as well, so it’s on my list). All the lectures and meetings and demonstrations that I’ve attended in the past few months were by Surgeons and Dermatologists.
Also, these aren’t necessarily “habits.” It was just a catchy title. These are more like “attributes” or “traits.”
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Picture of myself and Dr. Yoelin, the Botox
Master of San Diego
I think in this world the word meeting, course, and program are used interchangeably.
There was a course offering from a prestigious injection course which is offered in various places nationwide. It’s called the Palette Training program for cosmetic injections – and there are several meetings for different levels of injectors and also specialty sections for things such as tear troughs, cannulas and I believe lip augmentation. There happened to be a higher level course offered in Sacramento. Not too far from my location of Modesto, CA.
The word is neuromodulators – which includes Botox, Xeomin, and Dysport. It’s less brand specific. This was a 4 hour long CME program (I earn credits for continuing medical education). The program I selected was led by Dr. Steve Yoelin of San Diego. He has a super busy Botox and Juvederm (I mean neuromodulator and filler) practice which I’ve heard is booked for many years. I met him before at the Allergan / Latisse speaker’s training program – this was a training session which guided us through the slide deck for our talks. I was very impressed by him – he was very supportive which I felt made him the perfect teacher. While I was on “tour” with my talk for Allergan, I met attendees of my talk who spoke very highly of learning from Dr. Yoelin. So I figured that I should check this course out for myself. He teaches all levels of injectors and I selected the highest level which was called a level III course. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and learned a few tips for my own practice.
I especially appreciated some ideas he gave me for lip augmentation and for filling of temples and lateral eye brow areas. He did say to use the non-dominant hand to help guide the cannulas in injections.
Another great tip I learned from the Tiger Woods of cosmetic injectors (at my recent trip to Sacramento): While injecting Juvederm, he said I had great control, but would be able to take it to the next level if I used my non-dominant hand more to drive the direction of the cannula (special needle).