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Read your medical insurance company's certificate of coverage. Determine if they require you to see a PCP within their network. If so, obtain that list, and phone several offices to determine if they are taking new patients. Of course, you can select a PCP out of network, but the insurance company may or may not cover the costs of office visits, diagnosis, and lab work.Kenneth Hughes, MD, Board Certified Plastic SurgeonLos Angeles, CA
If you don't have a primary care physician and you should get one.Finding a primary care physician is not all that different than finding any other type of a doctor.Your medical insurance plan may have a certain restrictions of doctors you can choose from.If all else fails you can ask your plastic surgeon to refer you to a primary care doctor.Best,Mats Hagstrom M.D.
Swelling and bruising are common after BBL in the liposuction areas. Most patients resume light daily activities in a few days, and return to work in about a week (no heavy lifting). Surgery usually lasts about 3 hours. Seek a plastic surgeon who performs many of these procedures, has great re...
The best thing to do in my opinion is to speak openly and honestly about this with your surgeon. Getting the result you want may be as easy as a revision liposuction or additional fat injection. It might be more involved requiring skin excision. Hard to tell from the pictures. But if you picked...
Swelling is very common after any surgery. For a BBL, I tell my patients to give it about 6-8 weeks for most of the swelling to subside.
Thank you for your question. If you’re feeling up for it, you should be in fine shape to start getting back into your exercise routine at 2-weeks post-surgery. Take it slow and check in with your surgeon if you have any questions. You should be safe to consume alcohol when any medications y...
Most patients are not put on this medication during or after a BBL. Consideration to minimizing the chance of blood clots is a good idea. In general blood clots have been under estimated in regards to occurrence and impact after elective surgery. Using blood thinners during and after surgery...
Hello. Performing a Brazilian buttock lift involves harvesting fat from liposuction and augmenting the buttocks. It should be fine with a nail infection it won't get into the fat---but you could have that treated beforehand anyway
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