From the beginning of the nineteenth century plastic surgery has developed in a relatively large discipline which can already be dividend into particular subdisciplines: surgery of congenital defects, surgery of hand, after-accident reconstruction surgery, surgery of burns, microsurgery and last but not least also aesthetic surgery which stands for plastic surgery for many people.
This aesthetic surgery is not a matter of hysteric members of a capitalistic society, as it was indicated to us during the last era when it was more or less Cinderella (one official workplace – The Institute of Cosmetic /Ústav kosmetiky/ in Prague for all Czech lands).
Up to the present it has developed into a relatively extensive discipline carrying out surgical operations more or less on the whole surface of the body.
It has become a lucrative discipline, for this is mostly the question of paid services which the health insurance does not apply to. That results in the fact that many workplaces where working doctors have not got a required education for this profession offer aesthetic performances directly or indirectly. It’s good to know that every plastic surgeon must have a five-year practice on a clinic workplace of plastic surgery to be allowed to take a state professional examination (attestation) of this subject.
Further then they must have several years of working in the discipline under the medical supervision of an experienced plastic surgeon. We all know that each surgical intervention takes its risk. That’s why it is better not to increase that risk any more and undergo the required surgical intervention with professionals. Lower price which many unprofessional workplaces underbid may cost much more in the end. Sometimes in such cases negative aesthetic consequences cannot be removed at all. Therefore, if I may recommend – if you got o see a plastic surgeon, require a proof of his being the plastic surgeon actually. In my opinion every plastic surgeon will show you the certificate of attestation in the discipline of plastic surgery without any trouble. By the way its copy together with the other certificates should be hanging on the wall of their study.
A consultation with the plastic surgeon where a client’s problem has been discussed and a solution recommended shall always precede the operation itself. At the same time the risks of required operation have minutely been discussed, too. Consultations are mostly paid services, yet for that all I recommended – you had better visit more workplaces and afterwards choose the one which according to information provided and also accessibility seems to you the most suitable.
Plastic Surgery MUDr. Pavel Hlava, CSc.
Bulharská 6
Karlovy Vary
360 01
tel. +420 727 206 380
+420 353 226 465
e-mail: plastchir@plastchir.cz
