Michael Paciorek, Dr

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Dec 30, 2024

Before Dr. Paciorek started dabbling in facial plastic surgery, he had an office in Auburn, NY where he was simply an ENT.
He scheduled me for a deviated septum repair. By facial sonogram prior to my surgery there was an unknown object of some sort up just above my cheek bone in front of my ear.
We discussed what that might be and he told me that he would “take a small piece of it” for further examination during my surgery and depending on what it was, we may need to schedule another surgery.
This sounded reasonable to me and I agreed.
On the day of my surgery, a Friday, I went to the surgical center for my deviated septum repair.
I was not worried. My husband and daughter had both had the same procedure and woke in a reasonable amount of discomfort, however they were doing well and able to go home.
The moment I began to wake in the recovery room, I knew that something had gone terribly wrong. I was in extreme pain, crying uncontrollably no matter the amount of morphine given to me, as soon as I started coming around again, all I could do was cry.
My nose did not hurt, but the pain in my upper teeth and cheekbone was unbearable.
The staff nurses, who I am sure were eager to go home on a Friday afternoon alerted the doctor as I was the last patient left and could not be discharged in that condition.
He came to my bedside and asked about my pain, ie. where was my pain? I could barely talk, but I managed to tell him it was my upper teeth and cheekbone.
I heard him tell the nurses that that made sense as he had spent a lot of time working in that area.
He instructed them to give me more pain meds, (because he had to get me out of there).He also told me that he had done some extensive manipulation on the object we saw on the sonogram and we would discuss this on Monday in the office.
What followed was a weekend from hell.
Excruciating pain radiating through my upper jaw, cheek and ear all weekend.
On Monday, he explained to me that I was in so much pain because the object in my cheek was a “misplaced wisdom tooth” that had apparently been there my whole life, but in order to figure out what it was, he had “had to” chip away at the encapsulation that my body had built around it over the years.
I don’t believe I had given him that permission.
He sent me away telling me I was healing well, even though I disagreed, I felt that the pain would eventually subside.
With each office visit, he and his PA Rose Valentino assured me that I was doing well and while I was still experiencing incredible pain that was now also in my middle ear, they released me to go back to work.
When I started to lose hearing in my ear, he told me that there was a fluid buildup in my eardrum and the only thing I could do about that was wait for it to go away.
It nearly drove me crazy along with the pain I was still having.
Three weeks after the surgery, on a Thursday afternoon, I was desperately searching for something to take my pain away, lortabs, Motrin, whiskey. I couldn’t take anymore.
I decided to try to quiet my teeth with my granddaughters oragel. I put a good amount on my finger and started to rub it on the top teeth at the very back of my jaw, upon doing this, I discovered that the tooth that Dr.Paciorek had tapped away at for over an hour had continued to migrate after the surgery and was trying to make its way out between my back molars.
The oral surgeon removed it for me the following day.
When I told him what he had done, he never apologized.
I’m a nurse, I was still unable to hear out of one ear when I returned to work. Our Pediatrician checked my ear for fluid and found none, he suggested that I go see an ENT in Ithaca for a second opinion. They saw me that afternoon.
After an extensive exam, Dr Stromenger told me that my eustation tube was completely blocked with infection. He proceeded to remove “chunks of olive colored infection” from the eustation tube.
During that appointment, I was diagnosed with 3 infections, bacterial, viral and fungal.
I went home with 3 months worth of prednisone and antibiotics.
I STILL have a deviated septum!!!

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