The popularity of plastic surgery has only increased in recent years, as has the emergence of commercial clinics. It is more important than ever to be well informed about a surgical procedure as well as about your surgeon.

The popularity of plastic surgery has only increased in recent years, as has the emergence of commercial clinics. It is more important than ever to be well informed about a surgical procedure as well as about your surgeon.

  • The decision to undergo surgery is your personal choice. However, the surgeon will be able to help and guide you in your decision to see if an operation is feasible and what the possible risks are associated with the operation.
  • Inform yourself well in order to find out the feasibility of your intervention as well as to properly weigh up possible risks. Be prepared for your consultation and ask clear questions.
  • Know your surgeon. Make sure you find the right person with the necessary expertise to perform an operation. Ask for his training and scientific background.
  • Verify the credibility of your surgeon. A certified Plastic Surgeon is a Fellow of the Collegium Chirurgicum Plasticum (FCCP) and has passed exams. Too often patients are treated by non-Plastic surgeons.
  • Feel at ease. Make sure you don't get the impression that pressure is being exerted to allow an operation to be performed. You must be 100% supportive of the procedure and trust the surgeon.
  • If necessary, have your general practitioner assisting you with your decision. They too will have a good idea of which surgeon is competent to perform an operation.
  • Use your common sense. Don't be misled by commercial advertising or price offers to have a certain operation done.
  • Take your time. Take plenty of time to consider your operation. You will often be referred back to for a second consultation so that you have had enough time to go over all your questions and to ask any additional questions you may have.
  • Ask your surgeon the right questions. Be well informed about the course of the operation itself, but also about the follow-up after the operation. The surgeon should take the time to answer all your questions correctly. The following questions can be asked:
    • What wound care will I need after the operation?
    • Should I seek help after the surgery?
    • How long is the revalidation period?
    • What if complications occur?
    • What will the procedure cost?

Frequently asked questions

For the sake of a code of fair information practice, we can not provide data about a certain institution. We call on the general public, especially the websurfers, not to choose an institution only on the base of appealing publicities (attractive website, folders, newspapers etc.) praising the merits of a cosy place, of attractive prices, of "international" performances and experience etc. We often like to remind that aesthetic surgery is above all a medical discipline and not a commercial one, with his indications and his contraindications, circumstances beyond our control and possible complications. All of this could not be dealt with in a commercial way.

It is impossible to judge the quality of care that is given to patients on a base of publicities of an institute or a clinic. Don't forget that a surgical intervention is not only about the institution, even the quality of reception and the security conditions where the operations take place, are capital. A surgical intervention is mainly a matter of a medical team in which the surgeon takes in the central position. It is your surgeon that will interview and examine you, and who has to lay down the indications (or contraindications) of a surgery. He has to realize the proper surgery, and he has to assure the postoperative care on short and long term. Among other things, he needs to know how and be able to deal with circumstances beyond his control (such as unexpected secondary effects) and possible complications. Just like the Medical Association, we think that publicity and medicine don't fit together well. Good medical doctors don't need publicity. The quality of their work is their best tool: that is what is called name awareness.

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That is absolutely abnormal! A good medical practice imposes a surgeon to examine his patient, on who he will do an operation, personally during a preoperative consult, so that the patient could ask him personally all necessary questions about the surgery, long enough before the scheduled operation, so that he is given the necessary time to think it over.

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