Plastic Surgeons: Specialists or Jacks-of-All-Trades?

Monterrey, Mexico, April 26^th, 2009

Plastic surgery is different from many other medical fields since US regulations do not require those practicing it to be licensed in this specialty. This has given shape to an industry with players ranging from doctors who are occasional plastic surgeons, to generalists in cosmetic and plastic surgery, and then even to the very specialized ones. What’s important to a patient considering affordable plastic surgery is to research properly when choosing within available options.

Although specializations in plastic surgery are usually all encompassing and within just a few years of theory and practice take a newly minted MD to the level of being a very good generalist in cosmetic and plastic surgery, it takes more than that to excel in specific areas. Since no young surgeon has the option of devoting years of limited and disciplined self-practice to only a few procedures when starting his/her career, the best Mexican plastic surgeons commonly achieve this by doing fellowships that provide practice alongside experienced American or European surgeons and which focus on certain techniques or areas of the body.

The same way that some of us are more inclined to like and distinguish ourselves in science rather than literature, professionals in the medical field also develop talent for traits that can make them better for certain plastic surgery sub-specialties. Take facial cosmetic and plastic surgery, for instance. A person’s face is without a doubt the most visible, noticeable, and important part of the body when it comes to physical presence. In order to change the look of an individual’s face to make it look younger while continue giving a very natural first impression, a surgeon must be extremely good with small and delicate details. Our specialist in this field is Dr. Jaime Rodriguez Sierra MD, who is well known for the facelift, a procedure in which he has years of experience, and whose results in men and women of all ages speak highly of him.

In a similar fashion, excelling at body plastic surgeries is not as easy as it might seem. Performing a liposuction requires a lot of precision while operating a device held under the skin. Lifting and removing saggy skin from parts of the body which have suffered from the effects of age and other mishaps may not require the precision that a face would require, but more substantial work is needed in the muscles below. Placing implants under skin or muscle is also a very simplistic way of generalizing the hard work involved in making these items fit through minimally invasive openings in the skin and still attaching them well to underlying tissue. Specialists in body plastic surgeries are therefore well experienced in having the largest positive impact on large parts of the body, while leaving no trace behind. Travel For Care counts on Dr. Rodolfo Flores MD, an experienced plastic surgeon who devotes most of his practice to liposuctions, liposculpture, breast and buttocks augmentations.

After-Weight-Loss plastic surgery is another area worth mentioning. As a person loses large amounts of body mass in short periods of time, the body is not given enough time to normally absorb and hide the skin and flesh that typically remains over fat that was lost. As a consequence, patients looking to regain a trim shape, with a healthier waist, arms, thighs, and buttocks, may choose to recur to plastic surgery. Procedures like the tummy tuck, circumferential lipectomy, as well as the arm, thigh, and buttock lifts are those that intend to remove a person’s excess skin, while doing so in a way that underlying tissue supports well the new shape, and also that such large wounds are given all the necessary blood irrigation to heal quickly and leave the least scar tissue possible. In this area, Dr. Rodrigo Munro MD and Dr. Lionel Dignowity MD, two Mexican surgeons who work under the Perfecta Beauty Hospital brand, specialized for several years in the United States alongside some of this field’s pioneers.

To better exemplify the degree of specialization required for a surgeon to not only perform these surgeries, but also for their results to be high quality and enduring, a great facial plastic surgeon can be compared to a precision jeweler. Likewise, a body plastic surgeon can measure up to a fine tailor, and lastly, an after-weight-loss plastic surgeon may be associated to a car body shop specialist. As in these analogies, all three types of surgeons are able to perform across all areas, but there’s always one in which they are better at, and choosing wisely will render its benefits.

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel start-up firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com

Contact:

Heather Wicklow

Manager

Travel For Care

Heather@travelforcare.com

Toll Free: (800)571-0640

Affordable Nose Plastic Surgery Close To Home

Monterrey, Mexico, October 8th, 2009

Affordable Rhinoplasty

Nose Reshaping, or Rhinoplasty is the second most common invasive cosmetic surgery procedure in the US. It’s interesting to mention that it is not only the surgery of choice of almost 280 thousand people every year, but that it has shown resiliency in recession times with its volume dropping only 2% when compared to around 9% for the cosmetic surgical procedure category as a whole. It seems that when it comes to a person’s look, the face has a strong priority.

As in many household items, it is clear that priority goods and services have it their way and keep their share of a person’s budget in good as well as in bad times. Nevertheless, the fact that people that can afford them is still buying doesn’t mean that prices aren’t elastic. Services with such a priority in people’s minds must necessarily draw the attention of many who can’t yet afford them. Fortunately for them, the solution is closer than they might think. Medical Travel gives Americans the possibility of having this safe and popular cosmetic surgery done by professionals at a fraction of the US price.

As Heather Wicklow, Manager at Travel For Care states, “Monterrey, Mexico is becoming the number one Medical Travel destination. We offer excellent internationally trained surgeons and JCI-accredited facilities at very affordable prices. If you are considering surgery, you should have no where else to look!” With prices as low as $1,700, US patients can come to get an inexpensive nose job, bring along a relative, include leisure in their trip, and still achieve interesting savings.

In a city where looks matter a lot, it is easy to find an array of highly trained plastic surgeons with years of experience. Dr. Hector Ramirez, one of the best regarded cosmetic surgeons in Monterrey, and who trained in Austin and Miami, says “Our Texan patients love to show off how inexpensive it was for them to get these new looks”. As Medical Travel gains more and more acceptance, millions of consumers gain more options, while still guaranteeing quality results.

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com

Contact:

Gabriel Senior

General Manager

Travel For Care

Gabriel@travelforcare.com

Toll Free: (800)571-0640