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When is Cheap Cosmetic Surgery Expensive?
By admin | April 6, 2009
The current economy has people much more budget conscious. That’s understandable. Cosmetic surgery, after all, is elective and discretionary meaning that one need not have it for medical reasons and represents a bit of an indulgence or luxury. So when dollars get tighter, people do look to value.
But there is a difference between a low price and value. Some patients when doing their homework seem to focus only on “the price.”
What they fail to realize is often fees are related to quality.
Some practices are much more volume oriented. They often attract patients through heavy advertising and marketing, they appeal to patients only through price rather than the qualifications, training and experiences of the surgeons. This can be a dangerous scenario when often the fee that is quoted makes no allowances for anesthesia services. We have seen some advertisements for clinics that propose to do the nasal surgery without an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist – under local anesthesia and a bit of sedation using a pill.
Certainly having surgery without an anesthesia specialist in attendance, while less expensive, is false economy. It is also unwise to have it in an unaccredited, unlicensed facility. Some offices have an operating room attached to the facility but that room may not have met the safety standards of the various accreditation bodies and, therefore, there is some risk involved in having a procedure that has not “passed the test.”
So beware of low fees. After all, buying a cheap appliance is less risky; it can be returned if it doesn’t work. Your nose, priceless. If the surgery doesn’t work, can you get another one?
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