Breast Implants for a New Jersey Housewife
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On a recent episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Jacqueline, Caroline and Dina joined Teresa as she took her 34A chest to see a plastic surgeon about breast augmentation.
The housewives were having a lark but, actually, taking a friend or two or a relative to your first surgical rejuvenation consultation is a pretty good idea.
Especially if your companion has already had breast enhancement, you are ahead. Usually, what one forgets to ask, the others will.
By the time you get to your first consultation, you should have done enough plastic surgery homework to know:
- If your surgeon is a board certified plastic surgeon
- How often he or she does the procedure you want
- If there is a charge for the first consultation
- If so, if it is applied to the cost of plastic surgery
According to surgeons who have seen it hundreds of times over, a breast augmentation patient knows she is really, really ready for surgery when she just can no longer stand the site of her partially filled bra or can’t bear to drum up another excuse to avoid the beach or pool.
Selecting the size is extremely important; a high percentage of breast revision patients go back under the knife again soon because they did not like the size after the first operation healed.
Watch this ‘reality tv’ show version of a breast augmentation consultation.
A couple of things the housewives should have discussed include:
- Questions about time required for healing
- Another two or three such consultations with other plastic surgeons
- The location of any possible scars
- Slim but possible surgical risks
- The surgeon’s before and after plastic surgery pictures
- The completion of various medical tests before plastic surgery
- Various types of financing, including cash, credit cards and plastic surgery financing
- The person who will spend the first 24 hours after surgery with Teresa
Of course, why worry about a companion for after surgery? For somebody who can easily find three friends to go along on a first visit to a plastic surgeon, having a person present during recovery should be a snap!
admin @ June 20, 2009