Non-plastic surgeons offer cosmetic surgery

Friday July 7, 2006 ins: Cosmetic Surgery News Tag(s):

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Fortwayne.com has this interesting news:

Doctors' offices across the nation increasingly are becoming one-stop shops for both medical and cosmetic services, offering procedures generally done by plastic surgery specialists.

Doctors say they offer cosmetic services so they can better meet the needs of their patients. But plastic surgeons find the trend disturbing. They understand the motivation, though: As doctors face reduced reimbursement rates from insurance companies, they look for ways to bring in extra money.

Of course, there is something wrong with this kind of development. Doctors who do not specialize in a certain kind of cosmetic surgery should not be performing such procedure. However, this trend will more likely allow such thing to happen considering the high demand for cosmetic surgery.

Cosmetic surgery procedures like liposuction and rhinoplasty require years of experience from cosmetic surgeons in order to give patients the results they desire and deserve.

This is not to discount the expertise of some doctors who are not cosmetic surgeons. Some opthalmologists may produce a good eyelid surgery. And perhaps, some EENTs can conduct a successful rhinoplasty. But the vast majority of cosmetic surgery procedures need to be entrusted to board-certified cosmetic surgeons.

The key here is formal training and that the doctors that you entrust your body to for cosmetic surgery should have that.

The trend treats cosmetic surgery very lightly, but that should not be the case.

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