Teresa Benacquista, MD

Dr. Benacquista is an excellent doctor/surgeon. I received the best care from her and the staff that works along side her.

The Dr knows what she is doing and is serious about her work. The staff was pleasant and professional. I highly recommend her. Thanks so much you change my life forever. I will never forget you and those skilled hands lol.

FTM top surgery patients be warned! I went to Dr Teresa Benaquista because my community plan would pay her. She had a nice demeanor the first initial consult, but when I came back for the second consult I heard her calling me she in the halfway to her apprentice. I am female to male transgender and came to her for top surgery. Her staff knew my pronouns are he and my legal name and sex are all changed to he. So hurt that the doctor advertising top surgery online calls her transgender patients SHE when talking about them to anyone. I came to her for help not to be hurt by her! On the day of surgery I come and while waiting for my turn to go in for surgery, I ask her how long does she think it will be and her reply, "Well the other patient before you is finished and SHE will be taken out of the room shortly. AGAIN calling her transgender patients SHE instead of he. One of the rudest, hurtful, and unprofessional things you can call a transgender person when online you are… advertising yourself as doing transger top surgery. Are you not supposed to be the smartest person in the room? The expert? Now to the actual surgery she did on my chest. She completely botched my left nipple. It's supposed to be made male looking and she didn't even stitch the nipple down. It's like she just got tired toward the end of the surgery and said F it. Now it sticks up like a female nipple and grows scar tissue inside the hollow nipple every night making it painful. I will have to have corrective surgery. She also left an extra patch of skin on my chest and just sowed it down making it obvious that there was extra skin there before. It literally sticks up on my chest. My nipple is supposed to lock completely flat and masculine ( a male chest) is what medicare paid her to do. Instead my right nipple looks like a mush of scar tissue folded up on top of each other. It hurts to actually push down on my nipple and I've had already been made fun of by a cis gendered guy and he says you're not a male because your nipple is sticking up lick a woman's. After all the time and paid I went through for this to be over and just didn't give a hoot and did a botched job. 2 pictures on the left are fat not flat bulging nipples and on the right is a correctly done ftm flat nipples where the actual nipple protrudes not the round skin around it. She also made me get a mamogram done before she would perform the surgery. It's her standard operating procedure she says. I went to 2 other ftm top surgeons and they said it wasn't necessary thing to get the surgery. It is doctors discretion so she chose to make her female to male patients go through that for her own entertainment. It was totally embarrassing to have your nipple squeezed when I always pretended they didn't exist and never had them checked on my own. It was just more emotional pain to ad to the sorrow I already had at the time. And caused by the doctor who calls her transgender male patients SHE instead of HE. The extra fat she was supposed to liposuct out of my chest is left making me look fat in my chest when the rest of my body is not fat.

I am so depressed. Had top surgery with her. I am ftm go by male pronouns. When describing the patient before me while waiting for surgery she reffered to patient as just having had top surgery and called her a she. He staff called me she when talking about me in the hall and she answered back about me as she not he. Then for my nipples the worst part. All she had to do was cut out my nipples with the cookie cutter incision and sow them onto me flatened so they look male. Not only did she not sow them on flat, but she cut off way too much fat from my of my former nipple and made a mess sowing on my new nipple. She didn't so it on flat so I look like I have a pregnant woman's nipple full of milk and she trimmed off my former nipples and my whole nipple looks like some sort of puffed up blob of scar tissue. It doesn't even resemble a nipple. Don't recommend.

Amazing surgeon, thoroughly knowledgeable in answering questions and extremely patient. Highly recommended.

i loveeeee her ..she changed my life !!! going back to her in a monh for an arm lift and breast lift>>>

Dr. Benaquista greatly impressed me on my very first visit. She is easy to talk to, listens attentively, eager to address my concerns, makes suggestions and encourages me to take my time in deciding what my next step should be. Soft-spoken, professional and inspires confidence.

Would Absolutely Not Recommend Her!

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Dr. Benaquista and her staff are nothing less than extraordinary. I always felt the level of confidence and security that my life was in good hands. There is always the stress,nervousness, and anxiety that accompanies ANY kind of surgery. But, the ability to go in with a clear mind and KNOW that your surgeon has you covered..,priceless.