North Dallas
Plastic Surgery Consumer Information
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In
creating OUR UNIQUE WEBSITE, we
have adopted “Beauty begins with knowledge” as not
just a clever motto, but as our guiding practice
philosophy. The following statement sums up
our opinion about the dilemma of the modern day medical
consumer.
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"Today's
patients have access to much more medical information
than their predecessors did; unfortunately, much
of it is misinformation."
Bulletin of the American
College of Surgeons
December 2002 |
 Our” Promises
and Pitfalls” format
is a point-counterpoint discussion of plastic surgery
topics—that include both the positives and negatives of
a procedure or issue, in an attempt to provide a balanced
perspective on that topic. The information
provided is factual, but does include our opinions. We
have made a conscious effort to be fair, factual
and ethical in our presentations and opinions on our website,
just as we do in our practice.
PROMISES
AND PITFALLS: PROCEDURES
Includes procedures we offer in our practice, as well as
several that we neither do nor recommend. We begin each
topic with "OUR APPROACH", an in depth discussion of our
goals, management and surgical techniques of each procedure.
Our reasons for not doing a particular procedure are discussed
in detail.
PROMISES
AND PITALLS: GENERAL INFORMATION
Includes topics that impact on the selection of a surgeon,
facility or procedure. Included are in depth discussions
of the problems with “before and after photos”, “testimonials”etc.
, as well as, the value of understanding “physicians’ credentials”,
“facility accreditation”, etc.
FINANCING
OF COSMETIC SURGERY
Information about financing,including specific information
about options we offer in our practice. In addition
we include a Promises and Pitfalls discussion of the advantages
and disadvantages of some of these options.
Promises
and Pitfalls Information »
Our
Procedures Page »
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