>> Betty Davis: HOW SOUTH
FLORIDA IS A HOTSPOT WHEN IT
COMES TO THE LATEST COSMETIC
PROCEDURES. WHEN IT COMES TO
, IT'S
BUYER BEWARE.
>> Calvin Hughes: LOCAL 10 HAS
TALKED TO SEVERAL PATIENTS
FRANK CARPANO'S THE POINT AFTER
SURGERY.
THE ONE WHY IT MAY SEEM LIKE
SOME DOG EARS ARE NOT WHAT THEY
SEEM AND WHAT PATIENTS SHOULD
LOOK FOR.
>> Reporter: YOU'RE PUTTING
YOUR LIFE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S
HAND AND YOU THINK THEY KNOW
WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
SHE CHOSE TRACKS REJUVENATION
CLINIC IN MODERN HELP FOR THE
AFFORDABLE RATES BUT TO
PROCEDURES LEFT HER WITH
IMPRINTS SO LARGE THAT HER
.
>> THE TISSUE UNDER YOUR FIRST
LAYER OF SKIN IS COMING UP
EYEBROWS.
>> Reporter: HER DR. WAS THIS
MAN, ROGER GORDON.
>>HE LOOKED HORRIBLE.
>> Reporter: THOUGH SHE DIDN'T
KNOW AT THE TIME, GORDON HAD
BEEN DISCIPLINED BY THE STATE
AND SUED FOR PATIENT DEATHS.
ABSTRACTS SHOWED DISCIPLINE
OVER PATIENT WHO SUFFERED
COMPLICATIONS OR DIED.
>> THE YOUTH THINK
>>.
>> Reporter: THE CEO OBSTRUCTS
REJUVENATION DECLINED AN
INTERVIEW BUT DID SPEAK TO ME
BY PHONE.
THE CLINIC DID TERMINATE ITS
CONTRACT WITH THEM FRANK
CARPANO'S THE POINT AFTER THE
DEATH OF ANOTHER PATIEN
IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR, ROCHELLE
HOWITT, NOW A MOTHER OF TWO HAD
HER BREASTS REPAIRED FRANK
CARPANO'S THE POINT AFTER EVEN
MORE BOTCHED SURGERIES. SHE SO
RUBINSTEIN.
LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING.
>> MOST OF THE TIME WHAT'S
BEING PRESENTED TO YOU IS AT
BEST MISLEADING.
>> Reporter: RUBINSTEIN ISN'T
SOCIAL
THEMSELVES.
THE QUESTIONS PATIENTS SHOULD
.
AS LONG AS THEY HAVE A
PATIENT'S PERMISSION.
>> YOUR PEDIATRICIAN, YOUR
GYNECOLOGIS
, THEY CAN CALL
THEMSELVES A COSMETIC SURGEON
AND IT'S NOTHING ILLEGAL ABOUT
IT.
>> Reporter: WE FOUND SO MANY
COSMETIC SURGEONS WHO HAVE ZERO
TRAINING AND PLASTIC SURGERY.
ON
THE STRIKES WEBSITE, AT LEAST
ONE DOCTOR LISTED AS A PLASTIC
SURGEON IS A GENERAL SURGEON
WITH A BACKGROUND IN HAIR
RESTORATION AND A HISTORY OF
BASHAN BY FLORIDA'S DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH . ONLY POINTED THAT
OUT, STRUCTS UPDATED THEIR
WEBSITE .
EXITS BUYER BEWARE.
UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF BUYERS
DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE WHERE.
>> Reporter: LOCAL 10 REPORTED
ON A MOTHER . WHICH HE DIDN'T
THE STATE HAD
REVOKED HIS
COMPLAINTS.
11 KEEP OPERATING .
IT'S NOT BOARD CERTIFIED IN
PLASTIC SURGERY.
>> PEOPLE ARE DYING IN
SITUATIONS. IS NOT BEING DONE?
>> THE FLORIDA BOARD OF
MEDICINE HAS GOTTEN MORE
AGGRESSIVE AND INVESTIGATING.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S COME AT THE
EXPENSE OF A NUMBER PEOPLES
HEALTH AND LIVES.
>> Reporter: FRANK CARPANO'S
THE POINT AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED
IN 2012, CHARGED IN A NOTORIOUS
HILL STREET BLUES FEDERAL CRACK
ON THE PELL-MELL.
SHOW HOW HE HOPES HER LONG
PATIENT.
>> YOUR THINKING IT'S PLASTIC
SURGERY, YOU'RE GOING UNDER THE
KNIFE YOU MIGHT NOT WAKE U.
>> Laurie Jennings: THE