With the publics burgeoning desire for aesthetic and anti-aging treatments, comes the same number of providers wanting to fill those needs. In days gone by, patients choose their cosmetic doctors primarily by word-of-mouth. Doctor reputations were earned by results and longevity in practice. While this still has significant importance today, the use of paper and visual media and in particular the internet, has enabled a doctor to shape his credibility and reputation way ahead of what years of experience could similarly do. Such digital and electronic exposure can be extremely helpful or will probably be potentially deceiving to prospective patients.
Beyond the glitzy advertisements, well-crafted websites, and free seminars with wine and food, what are some helpful criteria that can guide patients on whom to trust to undergo the cosmetic knife, needle, or laser? Many of your most basic criteria are very known and have been published many times at the neighbors. Evaluating training, education, and board-certification are absolute basics and are relatively easy to determine. Of this group, the most significant question is.are you board-certified.and in what specialty? Once past these basics, however, the next confidence level can only be gained in an actual assessment. Someone’s website can get you to the consultation chair, but what you learn filled with more informative than any brochure if you know what to look and listen for. I would concentrate on these issues:
1) Did the consultation feel like an educational experience or a sales presentation?
2) Where treatment methods presented and researched.or was only one treatment approach
offered?
3) Was time given to answer all your difficulties.and a way to answer questions that may
arise after?
4) Were actual before and after procedure photos filmed by the doctor you are seeing shown or a method to view them provided?
5) Was referring with actual patients whom have had the procedures offered as an option? Were
these patients whom have had surgery had it involving past three months so that their memories are unprocessed?
6) Finally, once home, did the physician and his office feel right? Did the consultation provide you
feel more comfortable and secure in your decision?
In the end, a difficult connection and a sense of security could be the final layer in the selection process that built on the foundation of your doctor’s education, training and certifications.
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