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>> SIMON ROSENBAUM: So we often hear how wonderful plastic surgeons are. They have many, many
years of training and they go through all of the study about how to repair cancer defects
how to overcome bad burns and bad injuries and therefore they're the most experienced
and the best type of practitioner to go to for your cosmetic procedure.
Wrong!
In many cases plastic surgeons have had no training at all during their training programs
in the public system in cosmetic surgery. So you wouldn't go to a public hospital for
your beast augmentation or your tummy tuck or your face lift. And so, plastic surgeons,
if they don't get the basic training in the public system, they have to go and get that
training subsequently. Not all of them do it, and not all of them do it well.
Cosmetic surgeons on the other hand, that's all that we do. We don't do the training in
burns reconstruction. We don't do the training in cancer surgery. We don't specialise in
fixing people up after bad car accidents. But what we do know a lot about, and we do
all the time, are the cosmetic procedures such as breast augmentations, tummy tucks,
face lifts, eyelid surgery and that sort of thing.
So, in my opinion, there are some fantastic plastic surgeons out there that do cosmetic
surgery, but going to a qualified and experienced cosmetic surgeon, you will be guaranteed that
the practitioner has done many, many hundreds of these procedures and can do them very very
well.
That's our specialist field.
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