1. Head to Brazil for a Nip and Tuck
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How Much Does Abdominplasty Cost in Brazil? The current recession is putting a hold on the number of cosmetic procedures in the U.S.  The $10 billion U.S. plastic surgery market had a 9 percent slowdown, ...

2. Get a Winning Smile with Dental Veneers
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... that they are prone to breaking off, which in most cases forces the patient into another trip to the dentist where he or she has to endure the cost of having another veneer made.  Not only this, but extra ...

3. Uncover Your Inner Self in Thailand
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... for a metoidoplasty, whereas a male to female surgery or MtF costs $6,500.  Medical tourism is providing potential patients with affordable options to change their sex.  As one of the top regional destinations ...

4. The Art of Rhinoplasty: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
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... different ethnicities and races successfully.  However, with the average cost of rhinoplasty between $4,000 to $12,000 Stateside, is it any wonder why so many patients are flocking to destinations like ...

5. Despite the Recession, Medical Tourism Is on the Increase for India
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...  heart bypass surgery costs $24,000 in the US, it only costs $6,000 in India. Low priced gastric bypass surgery however is available for $7,500 in India, while in the US it costs a staggering $25,000. ...

6. Despite Desperation, Patients Want to Know, “Is Dental Tourism Dangerous?”
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... country’s population, not counting millions more who are underinsured.  Even the “fortunate” patients with insurance are hard-pressed to find deductibles and costs that yield truly affordable dental health ...

7. Medical Tourism vs. Universal Health Care
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... Job loss, corporate cutbacks, and inflated costs have forced people to reevaluate their health care status.  Questions like “How much do dental caps cost,” don’t even generate discussion.  The answer, ...

8. Patients Shouldn’t Compromise Safety for Affordable Health Care
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... can get swept into the excitement and particularly the anxiety of having a medical procedure the following day, forgetting to place safety first. Peace of Mind Included in Cost of Low Priced Dental Bridges ...

9. Will Medical Tourism Help or Hurt US Health Care Crisis?
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... Augmentation Surgery Really Cost? The real cost of surgery transcends the billable amount of the procedure itself.  There’s also the cost of follow up care.  For example, the cost of follow up visits ...

10. Cost of Penis Enlargement Surgery: Too High For Comfort
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Is The Cost of Penis Enlargement Surgery Worth It? Many men feel uncomfortable about the size of their organ, and if you're reading this, you might have questions of your own.  But before you rush ...

11. Will Universal Health Care Level Medical Playing Fields?
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Can’t Afford High Priced Cosmetic Surgery? Medical Tourism Can Help Ever find yourself wondering how much blepharoplasty, more commonly known as eyelid surgery, costs?  Most of us don’t have the disposable ...

12. Has Your Employer Added Medical Vacations to Your Medical Coverage?
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... tremendous opportunity to save and inexpensively incentivize employees, businesses are opting to add, rather than shun, traveling abroad for health care.    Cost Savings in Thailand May Mean Safer Health ...

13. Could Affordable Facial Implants Be for You?
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... of the costs out of pocket (reconstructive surgery is usually an exception to this rule).  The out of pocket costs create an even greater financial burden in the midst of the declining affordability of ...

14. Can Medical Tourism Packages Thrive With Universal Health Care?
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... and can’t afford the ensuing health care costs.  Health care in the US is indeed extremely expensive, but the point is that we Americans may not be helping ourselves.  For example, one of the most prevalent ...

15. Is Dental Tourism Safe?
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... outside Tijuana, which offer greater peace of mind for health travelers.  The overall trip including airfare and hotel accommodations may be more costly than crossing the border and catching a cab; but ...

16. US Insurer Announces Cover for Health Vacations in India
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... tourism revenues.  Cost savings are as extensive for cardiac surgeries as they are for non-emergency treatments like a herniated disc procedures.   The cost of herniated disc surgery in India can often ...

17. The Search for the Legendary Health Vacation Insurance Provider
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... Affordable cosmetic surgery like cheek implants can be done in numerous countries like Argentina, where the cost of resources is much lower than it is in the United States.  Here, malar augmentation—the ...

18. Is Medical Tourism Dangerous?
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... adding to the health care cost and burden, affecting all of us.”  Comments like this were quite common in the early days of medical tourism and, indeed, still persist.  Much of the fear has since evaporated, ...

19. Get a Brazilian Butt with a Health Vacation Package
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How Much Does Buttock Augmentation Cost? As of 2005, over 2,000 Americans opted for buttock augmentation surgery, which cost approximately $20,000.   Dr. Thomas L. Roberts III, a plastic surgeon in Spartanburg, ...

20. Look No Further for Low Priced Chemical Peels
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...  Medical Tourism Coverage Expanding for Americans Unreasonably high health care costs drove more than 750,000 Americans to other countries for medical treatment in 2007.  For most of these patients, ...

21. Avoiding the Dangers of Medical Tourism
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... their lovers (or lovers to be).  Unfortunately, these procedures are far from affordable in the US, where even a relatively simple chin surgery can cost an arm and a leg. India Taking Care to Reassure ...

22. Are Health Vacations Dangerous?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... be necessary but not included on the initial bill.  Check whether your bill includes the cost of medicines, anesthesia, surgeon’s fees, hospital room fees, daily visits from specialists, transport to and ...

23. Custom Made Vaginas in Thailand?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... Thailand, one of the world’s leaders in plastic surgery, hosts health vacations at discounted prices compared to US health care costs.  One procedure that is quickly rising in popularity and in cost (in ...

24. How Singapore Is Restoring Virginity?
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Eliminating Cost as Deterrent for Vaginal Rejuvenation The older we get, the more challenges we seem to face including challenges in sexual performance.  Over time, the combined effects of gravity, ...

25. Plastic Surgery Safety Tips
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... tourism.  Political unrest within and between other countries can have collateral effects on tourists.  The cost of not taking precautions could put you in the wrong place at the wrong time for your tummy ...

26. Show off Those Thighs in Beautiful Brazil
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Medical Tourism "Nip-Tucks" Inflated Plastic Surgery Prices Medical tourism has become an amazing way to reduce the cost of thigh lift surgery for US patients.  Thigh lift surgery (or thighplasty) is ...

27. Elective Surgery Not Always about Sex
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Medical Tourism Getting Leggy Sexy legs are high up on many women’s lists.  Unfortunately, those legs sometimes come with a price tag.  Some women are willing to yield to the high cost of spider veins ...

28. Why Is Medical Tourism on the Rise?
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... would unfold if the tables were turned with more Americans turning up in Mexico.  That situation isn’t quite so farfetched, though.  With rising costs of healthcare pushing consumers abroad for everything ...

29. What Awaits You in Thailand?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... procedures in the United States can be quite costly—more so than the original procedure—and some local dentists may refuse to treat former medical tourists for fear of malpractice suits in cases where ...

30. Reconciling Medical Tourism with Local Healthcare
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... tourism destinations like India.  While locals can't afford the cost of an emergency life-saving procedure at one of the country's hospitals, these same facilities lay out the red carpet for Westerners ...

31. Why Health Vacations Are So Right for Women
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... by itself can result in other problems later in life, like urinary incontinence, which again requires treatment or surgery that costs thousands of dollars.  Plus, there are additional conditions like fibroids ...

32. Hotels in Dubai
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... currently in the pipeline.  Budget and Moderate Accommodations Your best bet at finding a room that costs less than $150 per night might be to search in the Bur Dubai and Deira areas.  Sheikh Zayed ...

33. Religion in South Africa
(Destinations/South Africa)

... The vast majority of these are Protestants, with the Pentecostals forming the largest Protestant group in the country.  Roman Catholics comprise about 6% of the total South African population, and most ...

34. Religion in Poland
(Destinations/Poland)

... Eastern Orthodox Christians who are about 506,000 in number.  There are approximately 160,000 Protestants throughout the country, including members of the Augsburg Evangelical Church, the United Pentecostal ...

35. Are Health Vacations Becoming Too Mainstream?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... part of the way Americans choose to access health care. The most important factor driving medical tourism is the low cost of procedures abroad.  Hip resurfacing surgery that costs as much as $50,000 ...

36. Medical Tourism Advice for the Newbie Traveler
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Not-so-Pleasant Health Vacation Experiences Medical tourism offers patients a way out of the high costs of health care in the US.  From face lifts to hip replacement surgery, patients are finding that ...

37. South Africa Offers More Than a Safari
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... major medical tourism destinations on the continent (although this could easily change in the future).  This places the country in the enviable position of attracting low cost healthcare shoppers who want ...

38. What Boob Jobs, Teeth, and Singapore Have in Common
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... amazing growth, particularly in recent years.  A combination of factors—excessive health care costs, sharp declines in disposable income, and the overwhelming desire to “bring sexy back”—have led US patients ...

39. Medical Tourism Competes with Strings and Doorknobs
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... costs for dental fillings and breast augmentation alike.  For example, the cost of dental fillings in Thailand can run as low as $12-14 per filling, compared to $75 to $145 per filling in the US.  Thailand ...

40. 4 Tips for Your Dental Tourism Vacation
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... Those of us on the “outside” know it better as bulk purchase.  It’s the difference between buying from a Sam’s or Costco warehouse instead of a Wal-Mart or Target store.  You’re getting more at one time, ...

41. Medical Vacations Replace Your Apple-a-Day
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

Medical Vacations to India Save Big Dental tourism offers incredible savings to Americans looking for a break from soaring health care costs without sacrificing their safety.  Lately, pinching pennies ...

42. Malaysia Gets the Kinks Out of Your Neck
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... Add the pending health care and economic crises the country faces and you can see that many Americans may be in bad shape, financially and medically.  For those who can afford the cost of cosmetic procedures ...

43. The Key to the Fountain of Youth: Medical Tourism
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

The Cost of Facelift Surgery Goes Under the Knife Elective surgery is known for burning a hole in your pocket and ruining your eyesight as you desperately scan the fine print of your insurance paperwork ...

44. India’s Baby Boom and the Rise of Medical Tourism
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

Fertility Treatments in India Couples seeking fertility treatments are often faced with staggering costs that limit their options or force them to wait until they can save enough to afford the procedure. ...

45. Plastic Surgery for the Alpha Male: the Advantages of Medical Travel
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

...  The cost of looking good doesn’t come cheap, though.  The total cost of eyelid surgeries performed in the United States amounted to seven hundred million dollars in 2003.  However, these high price tags ...

46. Philippines Medical Tourism Summit Sounds Optimistic Note
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... and Wellness in the Heart of Asia summit held in Manila recently.  According to healthcare law expert, Scott A. Edelstein, the US is set to see its healthcare costs rise as a recession pushes more people ...

47. What's So Great about India Anyway?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... equipment and attract topnotch medical personnel from the best institutions overseas. The result is a mega-medical tourism hotspot with facilities specializing in low cost life-saving heart procedures, ...

48. Is the UAE the New Thailand?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... its slice of the billion dollar health vacation market has been slow for this medical tourism wannabe. High Cost in UAE is a Possible Factor The biggest factor going against Dubai's medical tourism ...

49. Does a Recession Mean More Benefits for Medical Tourism Industry?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

... tourism industry, there couldn't be a better time for Americans to take advantage of the benefits of medical tourism.  True, air fares are high, and the cost of hopping between New Delhi's Apollo Hospital ...

50. Lose Major Weight at Minor Price in India
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)

Losing Weight Smart Move with the Rising Costs of Healthcare So many people confuse self-acceptance with poor weight management.  It’s one thing to love yourself no matter what.  It’s another to adopt ...

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