Coral Gables plastic surgeon committed liposuction violations, state says

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Coral Gables plastic surgeon committed liposuction violations, state says

Did a doctor at a Coral Gables plastic surgery center take too much fat from patients, give too much lidocaine to one and fail to examine another before surgery?

That’s what the Florida Department of Health says Dr. Christian Quintero did at Gentera Plastic Surgery, 550 Biltmore Way, in an administrative complaint filed in June. Administrative complaints start the discipline process that ends with exoneration or punitive action. He now has two such complaints pending.

Other than those, Quintero hasn’t had a discipline matter raised since becoming licensed in Florida in March 2013, eight years after he became licensed in Pennsylvania. Between those license acquisitions, he became board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology on Jan. 17, 2008.

In an email to the Miami Herald, Quintero didn’t want to comment on the more recent administrative complaint other than to say: “What I can tell you is that the allegations were following a routine inspection and not because of anything involving patient complaints or complications.”

Quintero emailed a similar response — “No complications or patient complaints occurred” — to the similar accusations in the June 27, 2025, administrative complaint against him concerning his time at Perfection Plastic Surgery.

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In addition to the allegations involving his surgeries listed in Perfection’s license revocation, the 2025 complaint against Quintero also included general Perfection violations — patient notifications, surgical records — because Quintero was the designated physician, the doctor responsible for making sure the surgical center operated in compliance with state rules.

This complaint says Quintero also held the designated physician role at Gentera when the issues in the complaint happened. Online state records list Dr. Darryl Jay Blinski as Gentera’s current designated physician.

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Brazilian butt lifts and other forms of liposuction

Patient 1 was scheduled for a liposuction, fat transfer and gluteal fat grafting, known as a Brazilian butt lift, on Dec. 2, 2024. The complaint says Quintero “did not perform, or did not document performing, an in-person examination” the day before the BBL.

Quintero, the complaint said, did a fat transfer to the buttocks, chest, trapezius and biceps for Patient 1 after removing 3,000 cubic centimeters of supernatant fat from the chest, abdomen, flanks, and back. Then, the complaint said, he “administered 200 mg/kg of tumescent lidocaine” to Patient 1.

That same day, the complaint said, Quintero repeated an excessive fat transfer when he removed 2,500 cc of supernatant fat from Patient 2’s chest, abdomen, flanks and back and moved it to the chest, trapezius, triceps and biceps, along with an umbilical hernia repair.

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Patient 3’s liposuction, the complaint said, on Jan. 27, 2025, took 4,500 cc of fat from the chest, abdomen, flanks and back and moved it to the chest, deltoids, biceps and triceps.

The complaint said the limit on the lidocaine for Patient 1 should have been 50 mg/kg. And the fat limit for Patient 3 was 4,000 cubic centimeters at absolute maximum.

But the fat limit for Patients 1, 2 and 3 was 1,000 cc — each — if done “in combination with one or more separate procedures to which it was associated and directly related” or if done “in a remote location from any other procedure.”