Here’s two great points about traveling to save money on the cost of liposuction.

1. You Could Potentially See Some Really Cool Places.
Cosmetic surgery tourism companies know that people love the idea of saving money by traveling for their surgery AND also going somewhere neat. This means your trip could be a vacation in and of itself, location wise. For instance, popular destinations for cosmetic surgery such as cheap liposuction include the Czech Republic, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, and Malaysia, no name just a few. As you can see, the potential for checking out a cool place is great.

2. You Could Potentially Save a Ton of Money.
Cosmetic surgery is expensive. Take a look at the liposuction prices list we have documented here on our lipo cost guideto see what we mean. Can you find liposuction doctors abroad who will do the same services for less? Yep – you sure can. This means you can absolutely save money doing the whole ‘medical tourism’ deal for cheap liposuction surgery.

For people going all out – and many do – getting multiple liposuction treatments, and other complimentary invasive, non-invasive plastic or cosmetic treatments too – in the same trip can mean a very large sum of money was saved against the cost of the same services in their home country. (Note that there are health and safety concerns to consider when seeking multiple treatments at once or in a short span of time. In the simplest of terms, the more surgery, the more risk, not to mention that it means a more intense post-surgery recovery period.)

And now that not so great factors to consider:

3. Concerns About Recovering.
The recovery period after liposuction warrants that patient relax, not be on their feet, and basically “take it easy”. This means most of all not to be stressed out, not to do any heavy lifting, or lots of walking or intense exercise. If you’re able to stay abroad for a week or longer, you can relax in the city you’re in quite easily, assuming you’ve taken care of your needs (food, etc) or have someone to help you. But if you’ve got to catch a flight – or two, or three – or miss a flight and stay overnight in a hotel, etc – that type of situation is not conducive to letting the body relax and heal itself.

4. It’s Much Harder to Research the Doctors Abroad.
When using the services of someone in your town, you can consult with them, their staff, and their customers, some of whom you might know and can tell you their personal experience in getting liposuction at the hands of the resident cosmetic surgeon. Trying to do the same for a clinic in half way across the world in Thailand or Prague is going to be a challenge. In other words, it’s much harder to get a feel for the clinic, the doctor, and to know about the reputation of their services before you are already committed to traveling to another country and spending a big chunk of change on those lipo services.

5. Can You Really Combine Surgery and Tourism?
Consider if you really want to combine a vacation style trip with liposuction. The truth is that you might not be physically up for doing any sight seeing and many of the other normal activities done on a vacation. If you’re getting work done on the face, there could be incisions, bruises, and swelling on your face too, making it harder to be “out and about.”

Take a good look at these 5 points when it comes to finding cheap liposuction prices abroad and what it means to travel abroad and use those services. For some, it’s the deal of the century, for others, it’s just not a good idea to mix “business with pleasure”, as they say, to save a few dollars on the cost of liposuction.

If you are interested in cheap liposuction surgery, you have a few – but not many – options to consider in meeting your goal.

First of all, you can simply opt for those liposuction procedures that are cheap or cheaper than others procedures. Of course, this options leaves little towards factoring in your unique body and what areas of your body could use liposuction more than other areas. In this scenario, you simply get the cheap liposuction surgery because it’s the cheapest!

Secondly, you can look for liposuction doctors or cosmetic surgery clinics which are running specials. Perhaps you can find a local clinic running a sale or find a first time buyers discount, in which your services are discounted as a new customer at the liposuction clinic.

The third option is way more involved yet the pay off in savings is by far the biggest out of the three options presented here in this article. It entails seeking the services of a cosmetic surgeon abroad in an area of the world where prices are much lower for such services. There are actually many medical services that specialize in placing persons or patients seeking medical services up with doctors, medical professionals, and clinics in other countries who provide such services. This is a well defined industry now and you can find many different companies who will compete for your services. The ultimate location where the surgery may be performed could be practically anywhere really. Places offering such services to “medical tourists” include Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Brzail, Serbia, Montenegro, Prague (in the Czech Republic), Costa Rica, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, Slovakia, Croatia, Poland, and more!

Lastly, it’s worth reflecting on what your personal reasons are for seeking liposuction and contrast this with the motive of seeking cheap liposculpture. The maxim that you “get what you pay for” is true when it comes to cosmetic surgery services just as it is with everything else in life. When seeking out the bottom of barrel prices, so to speak, for cheap liposuction, you run the risk of endangering your overall goal, which is to improve your looks via liposuction. The cheapest doctors are rarely the best doctors. This is something to keep in mind when seeking out cheap liposuction clinics – finding a balance between liposuction prices and quality of service is a better motive.

• The number of areas on the body that patient wants treated

Patients going in for liposuction surgery will pay less per treatment if they get multiple treatments done. What this means is that if you go in for just thigh liposuction, the surgery for this is more expensive, per surgery, than if you also added on buttocks or abdominal liposculpture. Yes, you will spend more money total but save on costs on a per treatment basis. However, you will often need to add more than just a single additional body part or treatment in order to maximize savings – typically, you’ll need to cover 4 or more body parts to save money this way per treatment.

• The total amount of fat to be removed from patients body

The more fat that is to be removed, the more expensive the cost of liposuction. This also means that the doctor will be responsible for more body contouring, thus the added expense the more fat that’s removed.

• Anesthesiologist fee

Note that not all surgeries will require an anesthesiologist, but if needed, this will tack on another fee to the over cost of liposuction. (And possibly to help cover the cost of the average salary of an anesthesiologists, which is in the 6 figure+ range.)

• Hospital Operating Room

Another factor that may or may not be applicable to your situation. If the surgery is performed in a hospital, then there might be some sort of Hospital Room fee that is passed on to the patient.

• Geographic location of doctor

Cost of surgery varies by location, including city to city and state by state within the US as well as the differences in cost between US doctors and doctors in Europe. There are services for Americans to travel abroad to save money on liposuction procedures.

• How much the patient weighs

There is a rising cost associated with a heavier patient.

• The skill, experience, and reputation of the doctor performing liposuction

Certainly a huge factor when it comes to pinning down the real numbers for liposuction prices, the skill and experience of a doctor will have a lot to do with how much the procedure costs. The reputation of the doctor can certainly cause prices to go up, as a simple fact of supply and demand economics. In some places, such as Hollywood, probably home to more plastic surgeons and liposuction doctors than anywhere else, this can be especially true.

One question that people have a lot is this:

Can you really save money going abroad for liposuction treatments?

It depends. This question is generally oriented towards Americans thinking of traveling out of the USA and going to Europe for treatments. While some places, such as the Czech Republic, are known to have some very low prices for liposuction, the cost of airfare, hotels, food, transportation, and so on, typically wipes out any savings that look real on paper.

While it’s certainly an attractive option financially to take a look at a dozen different doctors prices and then go with the cheapest, let’s not forget what’s at stake here: the human body, more specifically, your body.

Just as you wouldn’t buy a home or a car of even a meal based on price alone, you should review your liposuction options in the same light – you have to take into consideration what your overall goal is and go from there. In this case, obviously, the goal is to improve your body. If a good deal on liposuction can get you there, and your research shows this, then great! But blindly picking a doctor based on liposuction prices only can get you into big trouble.

Consider this:

A cheap liposuction procedure results in your skin having weird folds and even deformities! What is it going to cost you now to repair the damage? Just as upsetting, imagine the emotional damage it will do if you literally look funny. This is not something you want to happen because a cheap price suckered you in to a bad doctor.

Or even worse, imagine paying a cheap fee only to get cut up and wonder later if any fat was really removed? It sounds horrible to imagine, but these types of things happen. Don’t let it happen to you!

Do your research. Don’t be scared to ask direct questions to the doctor. Look at before and after pictures of his or her work. Search for online reviews. Ask friends and associates who may have had liposuction performed on them if they can recommened someone.

Disclaimer: this does not mean that you can’t find a great doctor at a great price. Just be wise, be smart, and don’t let price be your only decision making guide for liposuction.

As you can see, it’s not so simple of a question to answer. There are a lot of different factors which influence the price of liposuction, such as the body part to be treated, the amount of fat to be removed, and in some places, like Hollywood, the reputation of the doctor can greatly influence (translatino: skyrocket) the price.

Nevertheless, the internet is a wonderful thing, and has helped collect data from doctors and patients everywhere to come up with a price guide of sorts that we can fall back on as a baseline of expected costs when it comes to liposuction, or as some doctors prefer to call it, liposculpture.

The range of costs for liposuction are on the low end of just $1,500, and on the how end of $7,500. Interesting, but not very helpful or useful. What about specifics?

Here’s a good chart addressing the lower and upper range of fees assessed for various liposuction procedures:

• Upper and Lower Abdomen: $3,000 – $7,500
• Arms: $1,500 – $5,000
• Back: $1,500 – $4,000
• Breasts: $3,000 – $7,500
• Buttocks: $1,500 – $4,500
• Chin, Cheeks, Jowls, Neck: $2,000 – $4,500
• Flanks: $2,000 – $5,000
• Anterior Thighs and Knees: $2,000 – $5,000
• Inner Thighs and Knees: $2,000 – $5,000
• Hips/Waist: $1,600 – $5,000
• Outer Thighs: $1,600 – $5,000

Compare this with the users at another site whose overall various procedurse, including multiple treatments, etc, come to an average of a little more than $5,000 per person. This is an interesting tidbit because it’s highly common for patients to go in for more than one treatment. For some, $5,000 on average will not sound like a lot of money and will be worth the costs of liposuction.