One of my biggest problem is my underarm. Every time I want to wear sleeveless, I always shave or pluck it if I have time. However, doing this caused darkening of my UA.
I've been looking for so long on how to whiten my UA. One time, I visited Ensogo and found out that Mendez Medical Group offers Unlimited sessions for 12 months of IPL and Whitening for only PHP 2499. I wanted to buy, but very hesitant since it's so cheap. So I did a review first about IPL in Mendez. One of the reviews I read from PinoyExhange stopped me from buying. It's really good to read some reviews before availing some services. Just want to share the story of Rina Turingan Laud regarding her experience on IPL in Mendez. It seems to be true since it came from Inquirer.
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URL: Mendez Clinic hair removal procedure that allegedly left burn marks in her armpits and legs
At Large : She deserved it?
First posted 00:48am (Mla time) Nov 26, 2005
By Rina Jimenez-David
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on Page A15 of the November 26, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
THE cynical and judgmental might say that Rina Turingan Laud had it
coming -- risking her health and her appearance for vanity's sake. By
now, you might already know of her story, which has been carried by TV
and radio news shows -- of how her legs and, to a lesser extent, her
armpits were subjected to second-degree burns after she went for "laser"
hair removal at the Mendez Face and Body Clinic in Makati City.
I won't be surprised if not a few viewers and listeners reacted to her
story by exclaiming that she deserved it for being so "maarte"
[finicky]. That certainly was my reaction when I first heard the news,
and before I met Rina and her husband personally.
Granted, Rina may have been motivated by vanity, if not laziness, and
perhaps foolishness in seeking the "treatment." "For convenience," she
said simply when I asked what motivated her to go to the Mendez clinic.
"I was sick and tired of shaving and having my legs waxed, and I wanted
to get rid of my body hair permanently," she added. Also part of the
attraction was the 80 percent discount "promo" offered by the Mendez
Clinic for "laser" hair removal, in observance of its eighth
anniversary.
What she didn't count on, certainly, was to get burnt in the process and
have her legs -- "flawless," as her high school classmate, broadcaster
Karen Davila, describes them -- scarred and disfigured.
* * *
LAST Oct. 6, Rina and a friend went to the Mendez Clinic to undergo
"laser" hair removal. After they paid, she recounts, the clinic staff
asked them if they were willing to wait or just set another appointment
because the machine had overheated allegedly due to overuse. But after a
few minutes, they were told the machine was functioning again and they
could start with their treatment.
The attending doctor, said Rina, was Dr. Rose Delez, who began by asking
how much pain she could tolerate. When her friend assured the doctor
that Rina had a high pain threshold, the doctor agreed that she could
probably withstand the maximum intensity, which would guarantee better
results. But Rina had her fears. "I kept asking the doctor if higher
intensity levels could burn my skin," she recalls. Dr. Delez, in a
"mocking" tone brushed off her concerns, declaring, "Laser does not burn
the skin, only hair follicles."
The doctor then began to slowly increase the intensity level of the
machine, settling on intensity level 12; she started treating Rina's
armpits before moving on to the latter's legs.
"After the procedure on my armpits, I felt stinging sensations which I
thought were normal and which eventually went away after a while," Rina
recounts in a statement. But even as the doctor was working on her legs,
Rina remembers that the machine malfunctioned and they had to send in a
technician to "supposedly recalibrate the machine."
This is how Rina recalls what happened next: "Towards the end of the
treatment, I was already starting to feel uncomfortable because of
stinging sensations all over my legs ... when it was over, I noticed the
dark stripes all over my legs. When I inquired about them, Dr. Delez
replied, 'Namumula 'lang 'yan [Iit's just turning red],' to which I did
not agree for they looked brown to black." When Rina expressed fears
that she had been burned, the doctor retorted: "'Di ba sabi mo i-maximum
ko, kasalanan mo 'yan. [Didn't you tell me to use the maximum? It's
your fault]." This the doctor would repeat many times that afternoon.
* * *
AS the minutes ticked by, the burning pain in Rina's legs only
intensified, her cries bringing another doctor to look in on her. When
she demanded that they call Dr. Joel Mendez himself, they tried to delay
as long as they could until Rina herself limped out of the room to the
front desk to demand that she be allowed to talk to Mendez. Mendez then
instructed the staff to put topical anesthesia and an aloe vera
mask/peel on her legs.
Rina says she was also shocked to find that the clinic did not even have
basic first aid medication, and it took the staff 30 minutes to buy the
topical anesthesia from a drug store. When her cries became louder as
the pain increased, Rina was transferred to an enclosed room so that the
other clients would not hear her.
Dr. Mendez, whose face adorns his clinic ads, showed up at the clinic 45 minutes later.
* * *
WHAT alarms and offends Rina, as well as her husband, is that even as
she was transferred to another room, the clinic staff continued to
administer "laser" treatments "as if nothing happened." Rina's friend
had to point out to Dr. Mendez how insensitive it was of them to
continue the treatment "without bothering to find out what truly
transpired or checking for any malfunctions in the machine ... if only
to appease us, the aggrieved customer." The staff finally put a stop to
the treatments, but continued accepting prepayments for later
procedures.
When the pain subsided, says Rina, she contacted her cosmetic surgeon
who told her to proceed to the Cardinal Santos Hospital. Dr. Mendez
followed them to the hospital and instructed Dr. Barba to ride with them
to Cardinal Santos. He also contacted Dr. Cathy Velez, the supplier of
the machine, to meet them.
In fairness, Dr. Mendez offered to shoulder all the expenses Rina has
incurred, although in a statement, he insisted that the procedure done
on her met the highest medical standards. But Rina has proof of the
botched procedure: her once-fair and smooth legs now bearing dark,
unsightly "zebra stripes." "I can't even wear mini-skirts anymore!"
exclaims Rina, a slim, fair, athletic mother of three. And for good
measure, not only will her scars remain for at least a year, that is, if
her doctors ever succeed in removing them. Neither will she be able to
shave nor wax her legs in the meantime.
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