Is Going Abroad For Liposuction Worth It?
Plastic surgery is very popular among Americans
. Combine that with the American love of bargain shopping and the additional financial pressures caused by the recession, and you have a recipe for an increase in cosmetic surgery tourism.In the last decade or so, there has been an increasingly large number of Americans who leave the United States to go and get plastic surgery cheaper in other places. Frequently the price of travel, surgery and even a hotel and vacation are less than a similar procedure in the states.
However, as tempting as this may sound, there are a number of very good reasons to be careful about leaving America for cheaper prices elsewhere. Sometimes in life, you get what you pay for, and this is often the case with liposuction. And where your body and your safety are concerned, you don't want to cut corners.
Although there are competent and skilled liposuction surgeons all over the world, there are also a lot of poorly trained, incompetent and even dangerous ones. The United States has certain laws that govern cosmetic surgery. Some places in the world don't have such strict laws, which means that by choosing cheap surgery in a foreign country, you could end up with an inexperienced surgeon, with outdated or inappropriate surgical equipment or with a surgical center that doesn't measure up to the appropriate hygienic and safety conditions.
Chances for infection, disease and serious complications could increase dramatically if you decide to go somewhere with cheap lipo and lax laws.
Similarly, your chances for non-life threatening but nonetheless unsightly results also go up. If a liposuction is not performed correctly, it can lead to blemishes and imperfections. It can lead to bumps or depressions in the skin, skin discoloration, excessive scarring, burns, nerve damage, or the death of skin in the target area.
Some of these problems are unfixable. In other cases, corrective surgery can be performed, but this is always expensive, and it frequently can only minimize not truly remove the problem.
One simple area that people don't often think about, but where complications can occur, is the language barrier. The basis of liposuction is communication: a clear communication of goals from patient to doctor lies at the root of cosmetic surgery. Going out of the country can sometimes mean that clear communication is difficult.
If you cannot communicate properly with your doctor, there is a much greater chance that there can be mistakes regarding such simple matters as which body area is to be targeted and which technique used. Even when these basics can be sufficiently ascertained, it is necessary to be able to have a sufficient dialogue to discuss the finer points of one's goals. If your doctor doesn't know exactly what sort of look you are going for, he or she will almost certainly not be able to achieve it.
In virtually all cases, it is better to stay in your home country and pay slightly more than to be lured away by lower prices and risk your safety and appearance.
If you are absolutely dead set on going out of country for your liposuction, at least do as much research as you can. Find out as much as you can about the place where you are considering undergoing liposuction using the internet and by speaking with the staff over the phone. If you can, do a background check on the clinic. If there's any bad news about the clinic you're considering, make sure you find it out before you have gotten your liposuction.
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