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Canadian Cosmetic Surgery

Anonymous
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Oct 31, 2006
9:57 PM

misty
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Aug 30, 2004
11:55 PM edit · delete
I heard that you can get cosmetic surgery in canada with canadian dollars which makes it like 40% cheaper. Mexican doctors make us pay in dollars. Now, I contact a canadian surgeon and they said that they cannot to plastic surgery on anyone that is not a canadian citizen?? Is this true, does anyone else have this experience?

Lillian Parker

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Sep 28, 2004
10:56 PM edit · delete
It does not make any sense, but Canadians can come over here and buy any services, anyone can. But Americans cannot go over and get bargain prices on cosmetic surgery and that comes down from the Canadian Government.

They have that free health care program over there, so I guess if some of the Doctors were cashing in on Americans they would not want to do the Canadians for much less money.

I have found that if you find a new doctor just establishing himself they will give great prices because they need the business. Also, ask cash price. Most surgeons give at least 3% to 5% discount for cash, sometimes more.

janet

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Sep 29, 2004
11:23 PM edit · delete
First we can't buy their cheap medicine and then surgery and only plastic surgery, I think it had to be the American Doctors behind this. I would rather buy from Canada than Mexico, too many times the wrong drugs were sold their.

That is the problem with buying over in Mexico, a lot of fake medicines. They are having the same problems in asia too. Sometimes I guess it is not worth the stress of saving all the money and better to pay the big prices here and know that it is just what it is suppose to be.

UHavMail

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Oct 5, 2004
12:35 PM edit · delete
Hi Janet,
I worked as a pharmaceutical sales rep for 14 years. Interesting business as I was with Merck & Co a world-wide pharmaceutical company. They price each country very carefully trying to balance the price with the economy of the country. Overall, we wouldn't want to make $20 a week income like many of the the third world countries. On the otherhand, that is why it's not a one-price system all over the world for medications. It's uniquely priced for their economy and country.

Many times I have asians tell me they go back to their homeland and get their eyebrows done for $20-$60. In the same turn that would be a weeks wages. In the USA they may pay a weeks wages for eyebrows in the $500 range. Just like drugs we may have people try to compare CHEAP prices for procedures in other countries the same as cheap prescription drugs.

Bye, Marcia A. Renner, Omaha, Nebraska

Anonymous
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Nov 3, 2004
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Boycott Canada this is not nice we should go where we want we do not charge them more money for stuff, besides we have the best doctors here why would anyone leave the country?

Betsy
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Nov 18, 2004
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You should not go out of the country for surgery because it is difficult to get adjusments made if there is a problem. I went to mexico for a brow lift and one brow fell so I had to pay for airfare and hotels all over again and I could have got it done locally for less by the time all the charges were added up.

Just Say NO

Betsy
Ms.

Anonymous
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Feb 8, 2005
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They screw americans.

Anonymous
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Feb 9, 2005
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Plastic surgery a booming business in Mexican border
towns

SAN ANTONIO — Thousands of people yearning for a
better body are visiting Mexican plastic surgery
clinics that offer makeovers at a third of the cost in
the United States.

The industry has flourished, with new clinics touting
their services on billboards, newspaper ads and
television commercials across South Texas.

While some full service clinics offer American-style
standards with inviting waiting areas and scrubbed
surgical suites, those images mask the downside of a
booming business that has littered northern Mexico
with backward operations run by physicians with
questionable credentials, the San Antonio Express-News
reported Sunday.

In more than two months of reporting on both sides of
the border, the newspaper found a largely unregulated
system where patients can enter a dentist's office
that also advertises plastic surgery and leave with a
nose job performed by an unlicensed doctor.

Through interviews with doctors, patients, government
regulators and families, the Express-News learned some
patients were left horribly scarred or fighting severe
infections from botched surgeries. But because of poor
record keeping, weak oversight and a system that
discourages lawsuits, it is impossible to know the
number of injuries or deaths in Mexican clinics.

U.S. doctors along the border said they're all too
familiar with the problem. Some have begun to
specialize in "secondary repair" undoing damage done
in Mexico because so many patients have required
reconstruction.

Dr. Tolbert Wilkinson, a San Antonio plastic surgeon,
said he's seen dozens of women return from the border
with broken or slipping breast implants, infections
and large scars.

"Ugly scars are coming from the border," said
Wilkinson, one of the few Texas surgeons who is
willing to treat people after things go wrong in
Mexico. Many doctors won't accept those patients
because the liability is too great.

A Lakehills mother of four who asked only to be
identified as Lynn claims she was disfigured in
December from plastic surgery at the Centro de
Ginecologia y Obstetricia in Nuevo Laredo. The
newspaper said the clinic apparently was not
accredited.

Lynn, 36, said she had trouble healing after having a
tummy tuck and liposuction on Dec. 10.

"I kept bleeding on my suture, and I didn't know what
it was," said Lynn, who returned to the clinic and had
surgery to repair her bleeding stomach incision.

The Mexican clinic is co-owned by David Hernandez, a
San Antonio-based marketer who goes by the name Dr.
Dave, though he is not a doctor on either side of the
border. He acknowledged that Lynn experienced
complications after undergoing surgery but said he
thought they were successfully treated in the
follow-up visit.

But the infection returned in late December, and she
had trouble standing up straight.

"I still can't stand up perfectly straight and it's
been eight weeks," she said.

Lynn went to see Wilkinson, who discovered she had
fluids trapped inside that hadn't drained properly.
Wilkinson put her on new antibiotics and has been
draining the fluids out of a hole on her lower
abdomen.

Asked if she do it all over again, she said: "Oh,
absolutely not."

Some patients can't be saved. Plastic surgeons in
Brownsville said they couldn't help two women who died
from gangrene that developed from infections after
their surgeries in Matamoros. One woman's skin peeled
off when emergency room doctors lifted her from one
bed to another.

"I have never seen a worse case of gangrene anywhere —
not even in Mexico," said Dr. Rafael Arredondo, who
was working in the emergency room when the woman's
husband brought her in.

___

February 6, 2005 - 11:23 a.m. CST

http://www.dailysentinel.com/hp/content/gen/ap/TX_Border_Plastic_Surgery.htm
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Anonymous
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Apr 25, 2005
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Hello Everyone,
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EiseeSylvester
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May 18, 2005
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Hey everyone,

I'm a journalist for Recognize - a new lifestyle magazine with national distribution in Canada and I've been assigned a piece on the increasing popularity of plastic surgery and cosmetic enhancement. I know, I know, not the newest idea out there, but a story is a story and it must be written. Interestingly enough, I don't actually KNOW anyone who's had any sort of enhancment done - surgical or otherwise. So I was wondering if anyone posting here would be interested in helping out by sharing some of your own experiences. I will keep everything anonymous unless you want your name to be given. I just want some first-hand accounts from people who are either looking into cosmetic enhancement or have had enhancements done. It would really help me out for one, and it will add alot of human interest to this piece. I'm only looking to inform; the piece is strictly unbiased. Any takers?

Canadian True Blue
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Jun 6, 2005
6:30 PM edit · delete
To all you canadian "Haters"
No need to get upset, the reason we probably don't cater to other countries is the fact that all our doctors are strictly regulated and have guidelines to follow in terms of patient care. I wouldn't want to go to any other country to get MAJOR SURGERY and have severe consequences in return. YOU GUYS need to push YOUR government more to help the people of your country.
It's not all peaches either, we may have free healthcare but we wait for 8-12 hours in emergency rooms, dead bodies laying in the hallways, understaffed hospitals and no money from the government makes things difficult.
Brenda
Canadian born and raised

areilla10
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Jun 22, 2005
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Another Canadian here!

Not sure if people are aware or not, but "free health care" means doing what's necessary to keep you breathing and from bleeding out. No dental, no prescriptions, and nothing cosmetic. Breast reductions and reconstruction are sometimes covered if the patient suffers back problems due to extremely large breasts, or psychological problems caused by radical body changes (ie: mastectocmy). Otherwise we're on our own.
And as far as the costs go, although I haven't been to my consultation yet (July), I'm assuming the cost would be relatively the same compared to the US taking the exchange rate into consideration. You're likely to get a better deal in the US because there is more competition between surgeons there, and consumers can shop around to their heart's content. Here in Canada - although our doctor's are very skilled, TYVM - there are fewer doctors to choose from. Add to that the fact that most Canadians have a skewed sense of what is and is not a good deal due to the fact that we aren't used to paying for medical services. The result? Uneducated consumers who will pay whatever our doctors tell us to. Methinks U.S. citizens have the better deal.

Miami
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Jul 13, 2005
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How many plastic surgerys go wrong

jadegreen
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Jul 21, 2005
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Forget cost! I just wanted cohesive gels and happened to find the doc I thought had the best pics in Toronto. Now I can't use him and have to wait until FDA approval in the U.S. and hope I find someone I like as well! I'm getting sick of all this research!

Canada drugs avbl
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Aug 10, 2005
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Anyone interested in buying drugs from Canada!

I used to work for an internet based pharmacy that sells drugs to US citizens. There are really great and provide medication to hundreds of customers. You can checkout their website at Northlandmeds.com . So there is no such thing as not being able to purchase our meds. And don't blame Canada for your situation.
Our government is not responsible for things established under your government. Things are the way they are here for a reason as some have already justified. You do have the better deal with more doctors, offering more procedures. That is why so many of us go to the US. We do have great doctors here though regardless of quantity.

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Aug 27, 2005
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Anonymous
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Mar 7, 2006
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you americans are typical to bitch and bitch about the things you dont get instead of being happy for the things you do have. so what if you have to pay extra in your own country just to have you big nose straightened big deal. dont live there then... move if you want to live cheap go to bangledash or somolia and take your american money so you can live like queens. you americans are so ungratefull. you should be happy your not in some third world country. where shit like getting a tummy tuck doesnt matter but your starving family does...

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Anonymous
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Apr 20, 2006
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stupid americans.....its not actualy "free health care" its paid by us the tax players. I have to pay half my salary for our great doctors. I don't see americans paying half there salaries to income tax all i see is bush doing tax cuts. Canada believes in helping the poor not like you americans who don't care about there poor. I got a nose job done and i paid six thousand dollars. It isn't covered by the government because its not a health issue.

Charlie1
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Sep 27, 2008
10:57 AM

I am not sure about Americans not being allowed to have surgery in Canada...doesn't seem to make much sense. I am Canadian and I just came home from Argentina, where I had my breast augmentation surgery. The price was amazing, even when you add airfare and accomodations! Please msg me if you want any info...

Claire_Charlton1@hotmail.com