You wouldn’t choose a podiatrist to perform open-heart surgery on you, or your loved ones! Yet, there are thousands of patients who choose the wrong person, often not even a physician, to perform their cosmetic surgery.

The horror stories are abundant. There are documented breast augmentations performed in someone’s home, even in garages, with predictably disastrous results. Some patients travel outside of the United States for cut-rate procedures, lured by the false promise of being pampered in an exotic locale. These patients suffer – not only predictable unsatisfactory results -- but also painful and unnecessary side effects. In many cases, they then suffer the agonies of having these mistakes fixed by the qualified