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[P651]Prices Of Plastic Surgery

by Ricardo Silva, Ric

Plastic Surgery Sticker Shock

It goes without saying that discussing the “average" of anything is potentially a dangerous task to undertake. In our capitalist economy, prices are dependent on a variety of factors including location, qualification of the plastic surgeon, the number of surgeons in the area and so on.

Given this risk, it is important to understand that the following listings regarding the prices of plastic surgery procedures are to be used as a guideline only. Plastic surgeons in your area may charge exactly these prices, a bit more or a bit less. These numbers will give you a range to consider, but comparing costs quoted by the plastic surgeons you evaluate in your area is the only way to determine the going rate in your town or city. With that caveat in mind, following are procedures and the stick shock prices you might expect to find.

Liposuction - $3,000 to $5,000

Breast Augmentation: $3,500 to $8,000

Rhinoplasty: $4,000 to $8,000

Botox: $300 each location

Eyelid Lift: $3,000 to $6,000

Facelift: $7,500 to $15,000

Tummy Tuck: $5,000 to $10,000

Collagen Injections: $400 to $700

The above procedures tend to be the most popular as of the writing of this article. There are variations to each and entirely new procedures are being offered all of the time. In general, the more specific or new the procedure, the more you are going to pay.

Having put forth the above prices, it is important that you understand something very clearly. Plastic surgery will improve your appearance, but it is a medical procedure like any other. Your body will be modified. Just like you would not select a heart surgeon based on their fees, you should not do so with plastic surgeons. If you find a multiple surgeons you are comfortable with, pricing can be a factor. It should never be the primary factor.

Although the above prices may be cause a bit of sticker shock, plastic surgery costs have actually come down significantly over the last 15 years. Imagine what they used to be!

Microsurgery uses a microscope to do detailed work under high magnification. This includes new techniques like sewing blood vessels and suturing nerves. It allows implants to get the blood they need, and actually function as a part of your body. This way, implants are no longer a foreign object. Microsurgery can work wonders in both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.

Breast Surgery Using Perforator Flaps

Recovering from breast cancer is painful, but now plastic surgery can wipe the pain away using a new type of implant called perforator flaps. Implanting these flaps puts microsurgery to use. It can get the breasts you lost through breast cancer back, and they will feel perfectly real.

This procedure uses skin, tissue and blood vessels from other parts of the body to reconstruct your breasts. Like a skin graft, perforator flaps are connected to an implant in the chest. The difference between flaps and implants is that flaps are "wired" to the rest of your body. This means that you have feeling in them, and they function just like real breasts.

Getting Yourself Reconnected with Hand Surgery

One of plastic surgery's main trouble areas has always been hand surgery. What do you do when your hand no longer works the way it is supposed to? You start to realize just how important your hands are. In the past, plastic surgery was powerless to do anything about it. Now, using microsurgery, hands can be fixed.

Some hand problems are caused by nerve trauma. Others may be caused by cuts or fractures that sever a key artery or nerve. The most common hand problem is arthritis, which many of us suffer from in middle and old age. Microsurgery can reconnect all the hand's parts and get it working again. Fingers can even be reattached, or damaged nerves reconnected.

Microsurgery for Treating Kids

One of the major areas where this technique has helped is in pediatric surgery. These days, it is essential for treating problems in children. These problems might include anomalies in the body. The hands and feet are the most common areas that need help. Some children are born with too many or not enough fingers, and this means a lifetime of social problems and possibly pain.

Facial deformities are also an area where now cosmetic surgery can help. Without microsurgery, doctors can't fix these problems without giving patients a fake prosthetic face. Now all the tissue can be connected and function as if the patient was born with it.

It can also treat traumas in children. If kids have suffered damage to the face, hands, arms, feet or legs, it can now be fixed. Prosthetic limbs can now be connected with all the nerves and blood vessels working properly.

Whether you are getting cosmetic work done, or treating traumas and abnormalities, microsurgery can open doors that before would have been shut. Microsurgery is a weapon for the toughest jobs that would have been impossible years ago. New techniques such as this are being perfected everyday, that make what we could only imagine yesterday a reality today.

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