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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">However, with some procedures costing hundreds of pounds less than here in the UK, experts are warning people not to make hasty decisions and take the procedures lightly. If surgery goes wrong the patient often has little rebuke, follow-ups or checkups, protection or even medical records as they would in the UK.  </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Experts are seeing a rise in treatment tourists needing corrective surgery after they’ve come home, meaning they have to fly back out again or pay to see a different surgeon in the UK. Douglas McGeorge, plastic surgeon and BAAPS member, has spoken out against the trend after two patients' wounds re-opened after they underwent a <a title="tummy tuck" href="/treatment/tummy-tuck-abdominoplasty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tummy tuck</a> in Eastern Europe. Therefore the cost of cheap surgery can be more than the bargain seeker expects. </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">2010 statistics from Datamonitor show that the UK spends more money on cosmetic surgery than any other European Country. This coupled with the economic downturn over the past few years has thousands of surgery seekers heading to Eastern Europe. Approximately, 10,000 people headed to the Czech Republic in 2010 with medical tourism now accounting for 1/5^th of the total procedures performed in the country in 2010.</p>

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