Traveling abroad for plastic surgery especially breast augmentation is a growing trend. The time you will miss from work depends on not only the recovery time from breast augmentation surgery but also your travel time. This article will talk about how long travel affects breast augmentation recovery.
Traveling aboard:
Travel from the United States to foreign countries for cosmetic surgery including breast augmentation is popular due to the cheaper prices abroad.
Popular cosmetic surgery destinations include:
Asia and India
Latin America
Puerto Rico
France
The recent scare with PIP breast implants in France and Europe has many people wondering about their plastic surgery vacation. Who wouldn’t want to travel to a foreign country, get a “boob job”, recover in a spa and go back to United States fully relaxed? To good to be true? Thank to the PIP breast implants scare in France, people are finally wondering if traveling for cosmetic surgery is safe.
The American cosmetic surgery patient needs to understand is the basic standard of care abroad vs. at home.
Standard of medical care:
When you travel to a foreign country, all of the safeguards for patient safety from the United States do not apply. Most patients understand the standard of care they are used to but the FDA and the American Plastic Surgery Society guidelines do not come into play in a foreign country. If you travel out of the United States you are subject to that countries standards.
There were nearly 300,000 women who got Poly implant prothese (PIP) breast implants in France and Latin America. There is now a huge scare due to leakage, rupture, hard scarring and concerns over cancer. As the patients are struggling to have these removed many people are asking why this hasn’t happened in the United States. The simple answer is the FDA wouldn’t allow it to happen. The PIP implant applied for distribution into the United States but the FDA’s strict regulations and PIP’s denial to use PIP implants in the United States. Currently there are three implant manufactures in the United States.
They are:
Allergan
Mentor
Sientra
Don’t gamble with your health
In general but having cosmetic breast surgery in another country adds the additional time and travel expenses, use of substandard medical facilities and practitioners, higher complication rates, and possibly for additional expense of revisionary surgeries.
Instead of traveling abroad, travel domestically to see Dr. Kole one of the best plastic surgeons on the east coast. Save the money you have planned to travel abroad and spend it on you dream vacation once you’ve recovered completely. Don’t let low cost plastic surgery abroad threaten your health. Visit Dr. Kole today and put your health and safety first.
Dr. Edward Kole is dual board certified, plastic and reconstructive surgeon and uses his private ambulatory surgical center which is licensed and regularly inspected by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. To schedule a private consultation with Dr. Kole please call the office at (215) 354-1010.
