Quack Admits Killing Patient

• Thursday October 19, 2006 in: Global Plastic Surgery Tag(s):

  Technorati Tags: plastic surgery, plastic surgeon, cosmetic surgery

  There are a lot of reasons why you should go for a board certified plastic surgeon to perform whatever cosmetic surgery procedure you want done. This is just one of them.

  The New York Daily News reports of a cocaine addict who pretended to be a cosmetic surgeon and killed a patient in the process.

  Former construction worker Dean Faiello, says the report, has admitted to killing Manhattan financial analyst Maria Cruz in a cosmetic surgical procedure gone wrong, then burying her body under his house in New Jersey.

  Faiello told prosecutors that Maria Cruz came to his illegal Chelsea clinic to have hair removed from her tongue. He said she suffered a seizure after he injected lidocaine into her tongue.

  When Cruz fell unconscious, Faiello called a real doctor who told him to get her immediately to an emergency room. But Faiello, who was being investigated for practicing medicine without a license, ignored the advice. Faiello took Cruz's body to his carriage house in Newark, buried her under the garage, then fled to Costa Rica.

  Cruz's body was discovered in February 2004 after cops received a tip that one of Faiello's patients had died while in his care. Cruz, an immigrant from the Philippines, was identified through her breast implants.

  This is just plain sad.