Face lifts and medical tourism: Top five questions answered

1) What is facelift surgery? Are the signs of aging in your face bothering you?

Then facelift surgery may be the right solution for you. A facelift is a surgical procedure to improve visible signs of aging in the face and neck and is technically known as rhytidectomy.

2) Who is the right aspirant for face-lift?

Facelift surgery is a good choice for you if:
• You have down to earth goals in mind to enhance your appearance.
• You are physically healthy and have an optimistic outlook.
• You don’t smoke. Finally you should not go for a facelift to fulfill someone else’s desires or to fit into someone else’s image.

3) Will non-surgical rejuvenation treatments achieve the same results as that of a facelift?

Non-surgical rejuvenation treatments cannot achieve the same results as that of a face lift surgery, but may help delay the time at which a facelift becomes appropriate and complement the results of surgery.

4) How Competent Is My Doctor? How Safe and Hygienic Is The Facility?

However, when traveling outside of your country for a face-lift it can be harder to verify the authenticity of the doctor, hospital and surgical methods. In some places, medical qualification standards are very different than they are in your country. There are many free services online to check out on the medical certification of your doctor such as the

• ASPS Member Surgeon Abroad program and Corresponding Members Service
• Doctors practicing outside the U.S. can be Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada/UK.
• Most important of all, check out with your friends who had already undergone face-lifts or the family doctor about the quality of treatment offered.

5) How do you protect yourself from complications after surgery?

• Make sure you are medically insured in your own country.
• Research all potential complications before surgery with your family doctor.
• Maintain contacts with the hospital and the doctor from where you underwent surgery.

A few years ago one frequently heard of patients from the middle east coming to India for quality medical treatment, but of late there seem to be a lot of people from developed countries like the US, UK and Canada coming here.

At first health insurance was thought of as an expense and while that does seem to play a role in driving medical tourism to poorer countries…to my surprise I found out that there are other complex reasons…

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Medical or Health tourism covers a wide spectrum of medical services and is the most popular form of vacationing today. Wellness and healthcare is blended with leisure, fun and relaxation through medical tourism. Medical tourism provides a ‘cost effective’ solution to off shore patients needing surgery and other specialized treatment….

India is considered the leading country promoting medical tourism-and now it is moving into a new area of medical outsourcing,” where subcontractors provide services to the overburdened medical care systems in western countries.
India’s National Health Policy declares that treatment of foreign patients is legally an “export” and deemed “eligible for all fiscal incentives extended to export earnings.” Government and private sector studies in India estim…

Indian hospitals have gained monopoly in medical tourism and Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc. benefits director Bonnie Blackley interestingly remarked–”The employees don’t care, because where else they are going to go? Well India of course!

Blue Ridge is just one of several U.S. companies offering “medical tourism” medical plans — will send one of its employees to a New Delhi hospital next month for a pair of surgeries that will save the company $10,000 over what the procedures would cost in…