Continuing the series.... PART 3 of 10 Things Plastic Surgeons Won’t Tell You 3. Bargains can come back to bite you.” With social media sites handing out cosmetic-treatment dis¬counts like candy, it’s easy to get caught up in bargain-hunting for Botox. But cosmetic procedures— from facial fillers to face-lifts—are not commodities that are equivalent regardless of the practitioner. “No two surgeons have the same pair of hands, experience and knowledge,” says Foad Nahai, an Atlanta plastic surgeon and editor in chief of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, a publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Complications from botched procedures range from the cosmetic (frozen facial muscles) to the fatal (patients have died from infections and other post-surgery complications). I agree with what is written here, but this does not fall under the category of “Things Plastic Surgeons Won’t Tell You.” We (the plastic surgeons) are more than happy to tell you that, “Bargains may come back to bite you”....and not rarely I might add. Why? Because generally it is not the plastic surgeon who is offering the bargain basement price. It is the salon, the medispa, or some non-core physician doing aesthetic treatments that is offering the bargain discount. Why? Probably because they are not doing very many of them. So they try to catch patients with the ‘big savings’. At some of the super bargain prices I have seen, these businesses aren’t even making any money. They offer it with the hopes of up-selling you to more, or another procedure. All this does is promote and encourage people to shop for the lowest price, without any concern given to experience or qualifications. And if a problem were to occur after your treatment, that is when experience really matters – having a provider who can get you through that problem is important. There are more than a handful of patients who end up finding a plastic surgeon ‘after’ their bargain doesn’t seem so much like a bargain anymore… Bargain pricing turns procedures that should not be commodities into commodities. The providers that offer huge discounts don’t understand how they are ruining the whole industry. In some situations low priced cosmetic treatments falls under the phrase, “You get what you pay for.” As a way to potentially minimize problems, research your provider and think about the value of the bigger picture, don’t focus just on the price.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:06:19 +0000
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