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Putting Together a List of Potential Plastic
Surgeons
The following is a list of places to start when you are
gathering a list of potential plastic surgeons. Remember - this list is designed to give
you a start, not make the final decision. There's still a lot of qualification-checking to
do once you have a doctor or several doctors in mind. (There's more on
qualification-checking later in this section.)
Family members
and friends - If anyone you know has had a breast augmentation, talk to
them. Ask them who they chose, why they chose them and if they were happy with the
results.
Your family
doctor - Your doctor may be able to recommend a plastic surgeon to you.
Hospitals in the
area - Find out which board certified plastic surgeons have operating
privileges in their hospital. Hospital operating privileges signify official approval from
the hospital.
Directories,
commercials, web sites and advertising - Since plastic surgery is a highly
competitive field, you will find that many more plastic surgeons advertise than do
practitioners of other medical specialties. Exercise caution when you use advertising to
pick a doctor, because the newspapers, magazines, TV stations and Yellow Pages don't check
qualifications when they accept advertising dollars. However, certain groups or
professional societies only accept board certified plastic surgeons and the directories
they publish contain only names of doctors who are certified in plastic surgery by the
American Board of Medical Specialties.
You've still got some work ahead of you before you select the
doctor to perform your breast augmentation, but this should get you started!
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