Vacations and fun activities sound enticing, but vacation related activities may compromise patient's recovery. Cosmetic surgery trips are usually marketed as a vacation, but after surgery, activities should be limited. Such activities as sunbathing, alcohol consumption, exercise, sightseeing, etc. should be avoided. However, within certain obvious restrictions, patients can carry out moderate activity such as walking and generally enjoying either Margarita Island beauty or the practical aspects of staying directly in Caracas city.

As long as you notify us at least 8 days in advance, no charges will be made making our best attempts to set a new date to suit everybody, yet we cannot guarantee when this will be possible. In the event you cancel your surgery or due to medical reasons doctors were to decline your case, a US$ 500 charge will be made to cover for administrative expenses. Rest of funds will be wired back to you according to your instructions.

Depending upon your age and medical history, pre-surgery lab tests, heart evaluation and thorax X-rays will be required prior to being approved to schedule surgery.

Anyway, these tests are performed over here before any surgery; only that if your health were to be compromised in any sense, doctors would prefer knowing about your test results before you actually booked your surgery.

Any post-surgery cares you were to need whilst back in your country can be easily coordinated among us and a general surgeon over there.

Secondary revisions or additional surgeries may be required in some cases and this is something patient will agree with the specialist (see Patient Informed Consent ); medicine is not an exact science, there is no such thing as guaranteed results, neither here nor in any other place in the world.

I have heard that travel combined with surgery can significantly increase risk of complications?

If patient were not to have at least ten days post-surgery recovery period, no doubt risk of complications could arise. Most of surgeries should be planned on two weeks basis to allow for a reasonable post-surgery recovery period; patients cannot be signed out before recommended length of time needed for immediate post-surgery recovery and overlooking medical instructions in this sense, i.e. departing without having doctor's authorization, will be taken as a serious fault for which we will not take responsibility.

Patients should always understand as part of their general culture that any cosmetic surgery will involve some discomfort and some pain. Each patient will take medication accordingly and there will be a process in which, doctors and patients will reach the more efficient medication for each particular individual. What is good for one person maybe entirely different for another.

We appreciate patients who have a common sense attitude towards everything involved in a cosmetic surgery from beginning to end avoiding punishing gestures towards our staff who really is not responsible for patients' inner feelings.

Once again, going abroad means being open minded, understanding that traveling brings knowledge about other cultures, other idiosyncrasies, different food, different people, different language and different ways of doing things, not necessarily having to follow a strict American pattern: being different does not mean being inferior or to have less quality.