Low cost cosmetic surgery, should we be afraid?
Brazil, Tunisia, via South Africa, and the countries of the east, more and more countries are specializing in a new kind of tourism, aesthetic tourism where patients are hurrying to pass under the scalpel at a reduced price.
Closer to home, Switzerland, now offers aesthetic clinics stamped "low-cost". Too good to be true ?
What are the risks ?
At 40% cheaper, the operation - if it is financially interesting, is it safe? Are the surgeons who operate you as well trained as French surgeons? And the operative suites? To whom to turn in case of problem? So many questions that we asked the SOFCEP (French company of plastic surgery)
"If you go to see a French surgeon, he will examine your case and he will go through what is wrong ... and he may offer a different treatment than what you originally wanted," says Dr. Bzowski. . "Abroad, we do the surgical procedure for which we come, without further analysis.The person who arrives with a wrong idea will remain with his misconception."
And after ? If technically, the surgeons are well trained, and their techniques correspond to the European standards, the major problem of this type of aesthetic tourism resides mainly in the post-operative follow-up.
What to do in case of trouble ?
Difficult, in case of complications to turn to surgeon on the other side of the Mediterranean or the Atlantic. "If we have a glitch once back in France, we will not be supported by anyone, not even by the hospital because the Social Security does not reimburse the costs generated by the complications of the plastic surgery"says the president of the SOFCEP." Besides it is very bad to take the plane right after an operation. The probability of phlebitis and therefore pulmonary embolism is increased, "concludes Alain Bzwoski.
Better therefore, in terms of plastic surgery to contact a surgeon in France to limit the risks!
