Plastic Surgery Virtual Consultations

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Problem:

• You want to use a top surgeon like a Beverly Hills board-certified plastic surgeon, but you live far away.
• Due to budget restraints, you don’t want to risk coming in for just a consultation visit and then for whatever reason, not using the surgeon.

Solution:   A virtual consultation

If you are a patient from out of town a virtual consultation with a California Surgical Institute surgeon may be just the thing for you. If you are interested, first speak to a physican’s consultant about the procedure. Then, he or she will send you patient registration and medical history forms. Be sure to fill these out and send them back over, along with detailed photographs for the doctor to review. From there you can schedule your virtual consultation with a plastic surgeon.

Given the Internet, the surgeon can point out, say, some breast augmentation before and after pictures that show results like you might expect.

If the surgeon sounds simpatico to you on the phone, you’ll have a good idea if you want to travel here for an in-person consultation before surgery.

The key to a good virtual consult lies in the photos of yourself. And holding a cell phone up to the bathroom mirror and taking a few shots won’t tell your surgeon what he needs to know.

To take the most informative pre-surgery shots:

• Choose a solid color background (a plain wall is good) and use good lighting with no shadows.
• Use a neutral expression with no smiling; forget about posing.
• Use a camera that can focus but does not have a wide angle lens. Those lenses distort too much of what you really look like.
• For facial procedures, make your head fill as much of the frame as possible.
• For body procedures, be sure and take full body pictures of your rear view, too.
• Take all pictures from the front, with a ¾ view and some in both left and right profile.
• For rhinoplasty, fill the frame from your eyebrows to your lips and include one close up from the front of yourself looking straight up so that the viewer can see into your nostrils.
• For upper or lower eyelift, take a front view of your face with your eyes both closed and open.
• For breast augmentation or tummy tuck, take the front, ¾ and side views of only the area to be treated without clothing. For instance, breast enhancement patients only need a picture showing their body from the collarbone to the belly button. Just relax your arms at your sides.
• Don’t suck in your stomach.

Ofcourse before you undergo surgery, you will need to meet with your surgeon for a comprehensive consultation. You will also need a pre-op exam and medical clearance to ensure that you are a candidate for the procedure.

Read more about traveling to Beverly Hills for plastic surgery.

admin @ November 2, 2009