Why Opt For Plastic Surgery In Colombia

Colombia is a beautiful country in South America known for its vibrant cities, sky piercing skyscrapers, and charming port towns. With a rapidly growing economy, Colombia is fast becoming one of the favorite travel destinations for Americans and Europeans. The appeal of advanced medical facilities and a sound infrastructure are now converting this once quaint and sleepy country into a buzzing and popular medical tourism destination for various medical treatments such as orthopedics, ENT, vascular surgeries, ophthalmology, and plastic surgery. Having some of the best health care infrastructure support systems in all of South America, Colombia offers a wonderful and unique medical experience.

Rapidly becoming the Mecca for everyone who wants to get plastic surgery done at a cheaper rate but in a world-class environment, Colombia is ready to meet everyone’s medical needs. Whether you are looking for increasing your breast size, also known as breast augmentation, or you want to get your breast lifted you should simply hop on to the next flight out to Colombia. If you are an American citizen, you’ll find that Bogota, the capital, is only a 3-8 hours (3 hours from Miami) journey depending on which part of the US you are flying from.

Yes! Flying down to Bogota, will not just help you enjoy huge economic benefits of a lower costing plastic surgery procedure, but also give you the opportunity to make tremendous savings if you choose to go for cosmetic surgery plans. These plans are usually a combination of two or more procedures such as tummy tuck and face lift, or breast augmentation and liposuction, or any other combination you may choose.

You may not believe us when we tell you that coming to Colombia can help you make 125% savings as compared to getting plastic surgery done in America or European countries like the UK. And, you won’t even have to compromise on the quality, the professionalism, or the technical know-how of these cosmetic surgery procedures!

It has been estimated that in 2006, almost 9,000 Americans flew down to Bogota only for undergoing various plastic surgery procedures. The numbers have grown considerably since then and according to some estimates, Bogota today receives around 15,000 to 20,000 people who are there for the purpose of either getting their nose fixed, their lips plumped, forehead lifted, or to get a tummy tuck besides many other plastic surgery procedures.

So, now there is no stopping you from looking beautiful because in Bogota there is a plastic surgery plan for every pocket size!

Gluteoplasty (Buttock Surgery)

Everyday there are more and more people who is interested to enhance the shape of their gluteus, for that it is fundamental to explain the in the most adequate way what it is and how is done this surgery.

You should start by knowing that the gluteus surgery is a procedure that can be done in an ambulatory medical center and that it shape depends on the surgical technique used, so that in many occasions the implants are notorious, they move, get fallen or get too high. With the technique used by the specialists, the shape is very natural and at the profile view they look round and in harmonic shape from the top to the base, besides the patient can sit down 24 hours after the surgery because the prosthesis are not in contact with the chair or the gluteus support zone.

The hard takes among 2 to 3 hours, the postoperative care is slightly painful and is controlled well with analgesic, the patient after 24 hours can sit down and after 48 walk freely, the first 2 or 3 days the patient will have a drainage that get out by the injure and then it is withdrawn. The points are withdrawn between the 7 and 10 days and the final result is observed to the 30 days.


At present, the most habitual procedure is to reuse the grease of the same person. "When the objective is to enlarge the volume, grease of zones is extracted like abdomen and thighs through liposuction and is injected in the most depressed parts, what is called gluteal lipoinjection. In this way they go 'sculpting' the gluteuses until adopt an attractive and harmonic appearance".

This technique is recommendable for who need a moderate increase or desire to better mold this zone. Besides, like grease of other areas is extracted, as abdomen or thighs, is finished with a liposculpture in different parts of the body.


For those that seek to reduce the volume of its gluteuses, this technique is also quite useful, since grease of the most prominent zones can be extracted, giving to this area a more harmonious aspect with the remainder of the body.

This method is made with total or local anesthesia, the one that sleep from the waist to down. It's main advantages are that does not require more than one week of recovery and practically does not leave marks, but the scars of the liposuction, that generally do not surpass the four millimeters of diameter.

It is safe to get Plastic Surgery in Colombia?

Of course is safe to get a plastic surgery in other country, many people says that, in example, coming to colombia is a high security risk, but I think you should hear to lots of people who already come here, things are not as it may seem.

About the quality of plastic surgery in Colombia (I talk about Colombia because is the country I live :) ) we have LOTS of high quality surgeons with many years of experience and who have degrees on great universities in the USA, Brazil, Europe, etc. and also we have excellent medical centers with the latest in technology.

Also think that the prices in Colombia are significantly lower and many people think that if prices are lower is because the quality is lower, absolutely NOT, prices are lower because supplies are cheaper due to money exchange, economical aperture and many other factors that let the prices keep low comparing to the USA or other countries.