Don't let that stop you. Ask friends, friends of friends, your personal physicians, nurses and hospital personnel who might have worked with a particular plastic surgeon. Look for names that come up repeatedly. Make sure your plastic surgeon is board certified in plastic surgery. This means the surgeon has completed a minimum of five years of surgical training after medical school, including a plastic surgery residency program.
Training encompasses surgical procedures of the face and body.
They are often performed in surgeons' private operating rooms or in outpatient surgical facilities. But see if your surgeon has privileges to do your procedure in a hospital. This means the doctor has undergone a review by his peers and a series of checks and balances are in place. If a surgeon doesn't have privileges, find out why. You don't want any surprises later.