The idea of traveling for medical care is not something new, but the modern concept of medical tourism has only surfaced in the past 10 to 15 years. Countries like Argentina, Costa Rica, India, Brazil and Mexico are establishing infrastructures and facilities to support their medical care system for patients that seek affordable plastic surgery. Because of the sudden rise of plastic surgery in the U.S., American patients are tempted to consider the option of flying abroad to get the medical care they can’t afford at home. The idea of modern medical tourism – traveling to foreign countries specifically for lower cost of care has made great achievements in the recent years. Unlike before when patients have suffered the consequences of medical travel because they fell victim from botched surgery and unprofessional care. Of course, cases like these will still exist. It all goes down to the patient’s ability to investigate and do research. The best road to safely looking better is better traveled if you start with a lot of homework and some probing questions for your surgeon. If you find the surgeon unworthy of your trust, then back away immediately. Surgery is a life threatening procedure and can also alter the way you live and how you look after a few hours in the operating room. The first thing a patient should consider is the surgeon, his credentials and years of experience. If the patient trusts his/her surgeon, the success of the procedure is very well foreseen.

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In those times of economic downturn we all are thinking in reducing our expenses, lowering down our phone, utilities and other bills, even stopping from buying things like clothes or that car accessory we like, and also many people who had programmed or at least though about getting plastic surgery just got to wait until things get better, or don’t?.

Medical tourism have been there long enough helping people with low incomes to get breast augmentation or a liposuction in countries like Thailand, Brazil or Colombia and even without needing to book with a plastic surgery financing company due to the extremely low prices that you can get if you decide to go for that procedure out of your country.

But you may be wondering why everybody is talking about medical tourism and exotic locations like those countries? well the answer is simple and I will put it on numbers, while getting breast implants in the USA could cost about $4,000 dollars sometimes even without the hospital fee or anesthesiologist fee, you can take that same amount and travel to Colombia, get the implants and stay the recovery time having a small vacation, YES IT IS TRUE, but don’t think that the implants are low quality ones, or the doctor have no expertise at all, they are the same than in the US (the implants) and the doctor is trained in the US and Europe.

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Plastic surgery
in Mexico is getting a bit more organized. Due to the demand for lower plastic surgery cost and consumers still demanding savings for medical care, affordable plastic surgery in Mexico is again on the hype.

Two weeks ago, Grupo Angeles, the parent company of Mexico’s largest private hospital group, Hospital Angeles, signed a contract with Health Travel Guides (HTG) to provide the technology infrastructure for managing its medical tourism operations. Another leading medical tourism agency, GoSculptura, now provides excellent but affordable plastic surgery packages in Mexico. GoSculptura now includes Mexico in its network of medical vacation destination and now has more than 500 satisfied patients and a 97% satisfaction rate. Other agencies such as Healthbase also chose the country to be part of its health care network and provide U.S. patients satisfactory plastic surgery in Mexico.

The overwhelming plastic surgery cost and the long wait to get medical treatment are two of the top reasons why American patients travel to other countries to receive medical and dental work. Whether a good new hip and a nice new face, you might have to dig deep into your wallet or wait several months before receiving the medical or dental care that you require. (more…)