Gold Coast makes play for 'fakies' market

Gold Coast surgery hopes to become a mecca for the surgically enhanced.

Its arguably already Australias boob job capital, so now the Gold Coast is capitalising by making a play for Southeast Asias lucrative cosmetic medicine tourism market.

Australian women have been flocking en masse to countries such as Thailand and Malaysia for cut price cosmetic surgery in recent years, lured by procedures performed at up to a third of the cost at home.

From mid-June, the newly established Breast Academy Gold Coast will offer breast augmentations for just a couple of thousand dollars extra and under the guidance of two of the areas most experienced plastic surgeons.

It is a move that has been welcomed by the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, which has long campaigned against the practice of women heading overseas for surgery.

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ASPS Brisbane-based president Dr Anthony Kane said Australian surgeons often saw patients return from overseas cosmetic holidays with complications or dissatisfaction with the outcomes that required further work here.

People are better off being operated in Australia in accredited facilities by qualified plastic surgeons where the standard of training is high, he said.

The outcomes are more likely to be better and in addition they have good access to their surgeon post-operatively, if required.

CosMedi Tour, a Broadbeach based company that has been facilitating Thai cosmetic procedures for Australian women for five years, is behind the Gold Coast operation.

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Gold Coast makes play for 'fakies' market