GUIDELINES AND POINTS OF INTEREST FOR MEN/WOMEN CONSIDERING COSMETIC SURGERY
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We are sure before you decide on a clinic or surgeon to perform your procedure that you will be conducting your own research. Please remember that it is vitally important that your surgery is carried out by a Plastic Surgeon and one that is on the specialist register with the medical council.
Ireland is not regulated and therefore general surgeons can call themselves a cosmetic surgeon and operate. There are only 37 plastic surgeons in Ireland on the Irish Medical Council’s register and approx 6 of them concentrate just on the aesthetic (cosmetic) arm of plastic surgery full time. The register is divided into 3 sections - Plastic (e.g. skin grafts, burns etc) Reconstruction (e.g. breast reconstruction following a mastectomy) and Aesthetic (cosmetic surgery). Therefore when you are specifically looking to have a cosmetic procedure, it is prudent that you find a plastic surgeon that is working full time in Aesthetics. Being a ‘specialist’ on the general register of surgeons does not mean that the surgeon is a plastic surgeon. These men/women are on the Plastic, Reconstruction and Aesthetic Register. Always ask for the registration and you can check all surgeons online. www.medicalcouncil.ie/registration/check.asp
We are very privileged therefore to have some of the finest Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons in the country here in Cosmedico. They are working full time at cosmetic surgery and have performed thousands of procedures in this their chosen discipline. For further information please refer to our website www.cosmedicoclinic.ie under ‘Our Team’ and you will get a full profile on the surgeons.
Unfortunately it has come to our attention that some clinics will tell you that they have plastic surgeons working for them but in fact this is not the case. Exercise diligence and ask for the registration. More worrying is being told that you do not need a plastic surgeon, that cosmetic surgeons are equally qualified, but we stress again to you that there is no formal training in cosmetic surgery other than the formal training in Plastic Surgery. This training usually entails surgical training for 10 years after a medical degree.
We are constantly lobbying for regulation in this industry and hopefully by the end of 2012, our industry will be in safer hands.
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ALL PATIENTS ATTENDING COSMEDICO WILL BE SEEN BY A PLASTIC SURGEON DULY REGISTERED ON THE PLASTIC/AESTHETIC REGISTER WITH THE IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL.
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