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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.