Educating the people on how to locate a doctor with credentials is most important. Finding an unlicensed, inexperienced doctor is the worse risk that anyone can take, says Billings. There are ways to avoid disastrous outcomes from surgeries. Frietas suggests more than one consultation. I found a really reliable and trusting doctor after visiting six doctors in the Los Angeles area, she says.
Billings suggests doing a background check on the doctors and their institutions.
She says to find out how many successful surgeries they have had in comparison to unsuccessful surgeries. College student or not, everyone should do the research to save time, money and possibly their lives, says Billings. The Internet offers several sites that the perspective clients could find out if the specified doctor is a board-certified physician for plastic surgery. As plastic surgery becomes more readily available and more affordable, I expect the numbers to continue to rise, even for college students, says Billings.