Plastic surgery
I went to the MUSC WLS support group meeting in September where their guest speaker was a plastic surgeon (sorry, can't remember his name but he's been their guest speaker before) and he does a lot of the MUSC WLS patients. . I went overseas for my gastric bypass so I didn't use MUSC however they welcome anyone at their semi-monthly meetings and I've been to a couple of them. I had my surgery in April, 2009 and I'm 13lbs from my goal weight so plastic surgery is VERY high on my wish list and this was a meeting wasn't going to miss.
Anyway, the Dr. did a breakdown of the costs: Face Lift: 4k - 8k (cost depends on if you're just doing neck/cheeks or also eye work); Arms 3k; Breast reduction/lift: 6k; Beltlipectomy (combo of tummy tuck, thigh lift, buttock lift + lipo) 8k; just the tummy tuck: 5.5k. These were ballpark figures so it could be a little more or less. According to him, East Cooper wants to become a 'regional hub' for plastic surgery so their rates are a lot better than at MUSC which is why he's been doing more surgeries there and these costs are based on East Cooper rates (I think I remember he said its about 25% - 30% cheaper than at MUSC).
Anyway, the Dr. did a breakdown of the costs: Face Lift: 4k - 8k (cost depends on if you're just doing neck/cheeks or also eye work); Arms 3k; Breast reduction/lift: 6k; Beltlipectomy (combo of tummy tuck, thigh lift, buttock lift + lipo) 8k; just the tummy tuck: 5.5k. These were ballpark figures so it could be a little more or less. According to him, East Cooper wants to become a 'regional hub' for plastic surgery so their rates are a lot better than at MUSC which is why he's been doing more surgeries there and these costs are based on East Cooper rates (I think I remember he said its about 25% - 30% cheaper than at MUSC).
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