Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

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This briefing paper about tourism for cosmetic surgery discusses vacation-related surgery trips. Report was prepared by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The Society provides a patient safety checklist. Useful overview and link to international ASPS member surgeons. Updated 2010, so it doesn’t factor in the Covid-19 pandemic. This site also has a number of more recent reports on complications and costs of medical tourism for cosmetic surgery abroad. See also the January 2023 blog on medical tourism.