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Quality healthcare and cheaper prices attract Americans

The Tico Times

WITHIN the two years after she underwent a surgery that reduced the size of her stomach, Mary Wiggin ton, a 48-year-old U.S. citizen and registered nurse, had lost 125 pounds, but her skin had not caught up with the weight loss.

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The practice that was traditionally reserved for few people - among them celebrities and jet set characters - is nowadays a common trend, increasingly used with less reserve, to such extent that almost all of us know somebody that had undergone one we are talking about plastic surgery.

OUTSTANDING SURGEON

Surgeon Rashi Rosenstock is a doctor in Central America approved by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons

IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 5 THOUSAND PEOPLE UNDERGO AESTHETIC PROCEDURES EVER YEAR.

PLASTIC SURGERY ATTRACTS FOREIGNERS

People choose the country due to costs and professional quality of doctors

One scalpel of experience

Prestigious US group accepts surgeon Rashi Rosenstock

 Costarrican Rashi Rosenstock underwent a thorough process of selection in order to have his name put on the list of the American Society of Aesthetic Surgery, based in the United States.

Combining surgery with R&R

Privacy, low cost makes Costa Rica a hot destination for tummy tucks

By Catharine Reeve

Special to the Tribune

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July 30, 2003

Combining surgery with R&R

Privacy, low cost makes Costa Rica a hot destination for tummy tucks

“I needed a tummy tuck,” said Burns, 55, who began contacting plastic surgeons in the Atlanta area where she lives. On a Budget, she wanted a breakdown of the costs (surgery, anesthesia, hospital stay, etc.) and a total, but doctors would only give estimates. When one estimate hit $18,000, Burns took her research to the internet, and soon surfed her way to an obesity surgery site group on Yahoo
( httpgroups.yahoo.comgroupossgplasticsurgery ). “And that,” she said, is where I heard about Costa Rica.”

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