A Facelift for EUR 8600, or EUR 1300?
Is it still worth travelling to neighbouring countries for surgery? What are the actual savings when compared to the domestic market? At Estheticon.com (http://www.cosmetic-plastic-surgery.info) we have prepared a comparison of prices in Germany and its neighbours for your information.
Liberec, Czech Republic, December 23, 2010 -- Although a number of people believe that the heyday of travelling for cosmetic surgery is already behind us and the financial savings that medical tourism brings are minimal, the opposite is still true. The cost of various aesthetic operations varies not only by field and surgeon, but there are still significant differences among individual countries. So, German nationals interested in plastic surgery can save a relatively large sum of money by taking a trip for an operation. Whereas a client in Germany pays on average EUR5500 for breast augmentation surgery for example, in the Czech Republic it is generally possible to undergo the procedure for EUR 2700 and the Slovak Republic is EUR 500 cheaper still.
“The price of procedures are significantly influenced by the cost of the surgeon's work, which is still up to fifty percent less in the Czech and Slovak Republics when compared with a German surgeon and yet of a comparable quality,” says Pavel Hilbert, managing partner of the Estheticon.com portal (http://www.cosmetic-plastic-surgery.info). “Secondly, the higher costs of operations are also related to the cost of insuring doctors, which is significantly lower here in the Czech Republic,” adds Hilbert.
To find out why prices for aesthetic surgery procedures in Poland, for example, are almost double the price of the Czech Republic, we asked Dr. Bohumil Zálešák, chief surgeon in the Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery FNOL: “I think the Poles are better businessmen than us. They realised that it is not good to work for extremely low prices, because they then have to carry out a large number of procedures. On the one hand, that is good for professional erudition, but it's erudition under great pressure nevertheless. In situations where you have to work very quickly and with expected results, there is no room for individual adjustments of the situation. It is still the case that the quality of the work is proportional to the time that you spend on the surgery.”
Price comparison of plastic surgery procedures among various countries:
Augmentation:
Czech Republic - 2.700 EUR
Germany - 5.500 EUR
Poland - 3.000 EUR
Slovakia - 2.200 EUR
BlepharoPolandasty - Eyelids (Blepharoplasty under general anaesthesia, the upper and lower eyelid.):
Czech Republic - 1.200 EUR
Germany - 2.500 EUR
Poland - 1.000 EUR
Slovakia - 650 EUR
Liposuction (Invasive - tumescent liposuction under general anaesthesia, one area):
Czech Republic - 1.500 EUR
Germany - 3.500 EUR
Poland - 1.800 EUR
Slovakia - 1.100 EUR
RhinoPolandasty (Nose):
Czech Republic - 1.300 EUR
Germany - 5.500 EUR
Poland - 1.800 EUR
Slovakia - 900 EUR
OtoPolandasty (Ears):
Czech Republic - 650 EUR
Germany - 1.900 EUR
Poland - 1.000 EUR
Slovakia - 600 EUR
AbdominoPolandasty (Stomach):
Czech Republic - 1.520 EUR
Germany - 5.000 EUR
Poland - 2.500 EUR
Slovakia - 1.350 EUR
Facelift:
Czech Republic - 1.500 EUR
Germany - 8.600 EUR
Poland - 2.800 EUR
Slovakia - 1.300 EUR
Also to be considered in connection with medical tourism is the issue of patient safety, about which Dr. Zálešák, adds: “It is a phenomenon that we are probably not going to change. As globalisation continues, so medical tourism will grow and the reason is that some procedures can be can be arranged very cheaply in certain countries. I believe that the Czech Republic is one such country where you can get extremely high quality medical care at an extremely low price.”
About Estheticon.com
Estheticon.com is a Cosmetic Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine Portal. All information is connected into a navigation matrix via treatments and surgeons/clinics. Patients can find information about surgeons and clinics, treatments, articles, forums, before/after photos, prices, videos, patient stories, destinations and more. Surgeons and clinics can get clients, traffic and publicity. Its 13 language versions have more than 1000 participating surgeons and nearly 900 000 visits per month.
If you are interested in more information,
contact: Ing. Pavel Hilbert, Phone: +420.777.591.118, pavel.hilbert (at) estheticon.com, http://www.estheticon.com
Contact:
Pavel Hilbert
Estheticon.com
Liberec, Czech Republic
+420.777.591.118
pavel.hilbert@estheticon.com
http://www.estheticon.com
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