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Makeover Travel : … A top choice for surgery abroad!!

June 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to Makeover Travel
The highest quality service in integrated medical care

Makeover Travel is the premier and unique integrated health company recognized by the national government of Bolivia, by providing access to the highest quality healthcare at a competitive price for foreign patients.

The highest quality service in integrated medical care with more than 800 satisfied patients from all over the world!

  • Makeover Travel is an international renowned medical tourism service at the Medical Forefront, that co-ordinates makeover trips for cosmetic and plastic surgery in Bolivia, South America.
  • Makeover Travel is a worldwide pioneer in the organization of trips focused in beauty and image change; their goal is to provide world class cosmetic surgery with leading specialists at affordable prices.
  • Makeover Travel has been named  by the Government Ministry of Health and Ministry of Tourism of Bolivia the number one choice of Medical Tourism organizations in the country for fourth year (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007); rewarding the company for excellence in Tourism and Medical Services.

Our focus is Cosmetic/Plastic surgery treatments and recuperation packages combined with a fully inclusive 5 stars Clinic and hotel accommodation package.

Real Value for Your Money.
We offer the best value cosmetic surgery holidays, working hard for you to negotiate the best prices with the hospitals and hotels.

Our plastic and cosmetic surgery price policy has one goal: to make high quality plastic surgery available for everybody!

The low cost of living and the special economic advantages granted by the government for doctor fees and the development of medical tourism offer you the opportunity to obtain top quality plastic surgery such as:

Rhinoplasty, Face Lift, Blepharoplasty, Cheek implant surgery, Chin implant surgery, Breast Surgeries, Liposuction/ Lipoplasty, Tummy Tuck, Body lift Surgery, etc. at savings of up to 60-80% from USA, Canada or European prices.

We are engaged in providing people the look of their dreams at affordable prices and optimal convergence of health with the largest panel of surgeons and medical experts.

Please Click Here to read more about Makeover Travel.

Categories: Breast Surgery Abroad · Cosmetic Surgery Abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · Plastic Surgery · Plastic Surgery Abroad
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Cosmetic Holidays.. Grand Resort Bad Ragaz.

June 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the leading Health, Spa & Golf Resort of Switzerland

Welcome to the Grand Hotel Quellenhof & Spa Suites and the Grand Hotel Hof Ragaz. The emphasis here is on priceless rarities such as peace, spaciousness and time. And the focal point wherever you go is the beneficial thermal spa water. The exclusive resort offers a unique combination in a single location: top-class hotel facilities with 290 stylish rooms and suites, gourmet pleasures, well-being in the new, over 5,500 m2 “to B. Wellbeing & Spa”, Medical Health at the highest level, Kursaal Business & Events Center, Tamina Therme and Casino.

Medical Health Center
Everything from preventive care to aftercare. Good health is our most precious possession. This is why we look after and care for you.

In our renowned Medical Health Center we are offering the following core competencies:

  • Obesity and Nutrition
  • Sport & Movement
  • Rheumatology
  • Mental Health
  • Beauty
  • Phlebology and Vein Treatment
  • Radiology

The diversity of the various medical disciplines allow us to undertake a thorough, holistic examination of the individual. Around 70 staff are employed in the Medical Health Center including 9 specialist doctors, 7 consultants, 29 therapists and other skilled personnel. The Department of Sports Medicine headed by Dr. Christian Schlegel was officially accredited as the Swiss Olympic Medical Center in 2004. Dr. Christian Schlegel will be accompanying the Swiss Olympic team at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver as Chief Medical Officer. The international clientele, among them renowned athletes, undergo continuous medical treatment and use the services provided by physiotherapists and masseurs in the Medical Health Center in order to measure and systematically improve their health and performance capability.

Please Click here to read more about Grand Resort Bad Ragaz.

Categories: Bariatric Surgery Abroad · Breast Surgery Abroad · Cosmetic Surgery Abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · Obesity / Weight Loss Surgery · Plastic Surgery · Plastic Surgery Abroad
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Exclusive Eye Lasik Packages in Colombia

June 25, 2009 · 1 Comment

One Eye for $ 1,800 only…

Two Eyes for $ 2,350 only…

Benefits of LASIK Eye Surgery
LASIK eye surgery is an outpatient procedure, with minimum complications.  It takes less than 30 minutes to perform, which cuts back on LASIK eye surgery costs.  It is a highly technical and most effective technique that is able to eliminate significant visual impairment.  Both eyes can be done at the same time.  In some cases, an eye patient or a LASIK eye surgeon may recommend a wait in between eyes to better evaluate results.  The eye surgery procedure is relatively painless, and local anesthetic eye drops are used with a mild form of procedural sedation.  Some eye patients feel a need to sensation for a day or two afterward.  LASIK eye surgery also replaces the use of scalpels in such a sensitive area of the body, reducing the number of complications that result from more traditional surgical procedures.


Packages Include:

  • Tickets and Airfare up to 700 us. If Longer trip or higher rate the difference will be charged to the client.
  • Transportation: Airport (José María Córdoba) – Hotel – Airport
  • Company (Med logistic Service will be with you during your medical treatment)
  • Transportation: Hotel – Hospital – Hotel
  • Accomodation or Hotel (3 days per Eye Lasik)
  • Shopping guide – 1 day

Other services that may be provided upon request and under additional charges

  • In-house Nursing
  • Translator
  • Inter-medical consultation
  • Dental Surgery
  • Medication
  • Diagnosis Tests
  • Additional city tours

Other services or products not specified in the quote are not included on the rate.

Please Click Here to request more information about Eye/Lasik Surgery from Med Logistic Services.

Categories: Health Tourism · Lasik Eye Surgery Abroad · Medical Tourism
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Tourmedical Cosmetic Dental Holidays

June 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

Are you not happy with your smile ?

We believe that everbody deserves a healthy and perfect smile.
An attractive smile can boost the chances in your career, your personal life, or just enhance what you already have.

With new minimally invasive techniques and painless treatments, cosmetic dentistry is now readily accessible for almost anyone who is unhappy with the appearance of their teeth.

tourmedical package before after

tourmedical package before after

Save now on your treatment by choosing one of  our packages:

tourmedical Package includings :

  • Cleaning & polishing
  • Dental contourings
  • Zoom Advanced Power! Teeth whitening
  • Free transfers from hotel to clinic
tourmedical Package includings:

  • Hollywood Smile consultation & planning
  • 6-8 Laminate veneers
  • dental contourings
  • Zoom advanced! Teeth whitening
tourmedical Package includings:

  • Periodontical consultation & planning
  • 6 Premium quality dental implants
  • 12 porcelain implant crownings
  • Zoom advanced! Teeth whitening

Please Click here to request more information from TourMedical Cosmetic Dental Holidays.

Categories: Dentistry Abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · dentistry
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Live To Smile Package

June 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Let’s bring that smile back to your family. Come to Guatemala.

angels abroad logoWhat does your smile means to you? Is it just a way to show people you are happy or the best complement to your business card? Maybe it’s just the way you could get noticed by that special person you are interested in or perhaps is the simplest way to let your loved ones know how much they mean to you.

The meaning you give to your smile is very important to us in Angels Abroad. If you think you’re not achieving that, we definitely are going to help you.

How can we help you? Well, we have prepared special packages for you. Every single person is different and that is why we will like to speak with you. You will speak directly to one of the best dentists in Central America, Dr. Estuardo Lara.

Dr. Estuardo Lara is a well known dentist in Guatemala and Central America. He treats local and foreign patients as if they were loved relatives of him. “Listen to your patients and show them that you care” is Dr. Lara’s slogan. Dr. Lara is always updating his knowledge and investing in state-of-the-art technology for his clinic in Guatemala.

Live To Smile package
Dental Treatment All-inclusive package
Consultation & Planning Ground Transportation (airport-hotel-clinic)
3-5 root canals Concierge Service
3-5 fiber glass pins Cell phone
3-5 porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns 3 tours in Guatemala City
Teeth whitening 14 nights in Hotel (breakfast included)
FREE dental cleaning and teeth brushing techniques

LIVE TO SMILE package cost: US$5,100

angels abroad familyFinancing
Because we know many people are having financial problems, we offer our patients, living in USA and Canada financing for your dental treatments. If you have a good credit history, the process is quick and you will not have to wait longer for that perfect smile.

Extra services
To make your experience even more unforgettable we offer our patients different kind of tours and hotels.
We have cultural tours, adventure tours, bird watching and many more.

Please Click here to request more information from Angels Abroad.

Categories: Dentistry Abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · dentistry
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Exercise resistant body parts can be treated with VASER – Advanced Liposuction Manila, Philippines

June 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

by Roura Derm Surgery
AMONG people around, you are seen as one of the blessed few. Thanks to friendly genes or fanatical commitment to hard work. Your typical week is characterized by workouts at the gym every other day. Your curves are in the right places. It’s a physique easily describable as whistle-bait or drop-dead gorgeous. To look at you is to wonder how nature can be generous to one and ignore all the rest!

Yet, despite what is generally a slew of rave reviews, you still could use a few muscle definitions here and there. Truth be told, some parts of your body are simply exercise-resistant. And no amount of visits to the gym or rigorous workout regimen can let you see the desired results within the desired time frame.

Whine no more. The advanced liposuction technique that enhances the visibility of well-toned muscles has reached Philippine shores. VASER high-definition liposculpture targets men  and women who would otherwise never have considered themselves in need of liposuction.

Ideal candidates
Because VASER High-Def was conceived to be a sculpting rather than a debulking technique, a person who has good muscle tone but does not have excessive amount of fat or lax skin is the perfect candidate for the procedure.

What will do even more wonders to your body is the selectivity the VASER instrument represents. The procedure can target only those exercise-resistant areas by selectively liquefying the fat in those areas. Such selectivity also  allows the surgeon to target specific fat layers to create the desired sculpted appearance without damaging connectives tissue.

Please Click here to read more about ‘Exercise resistant body parts can be treated with VASER’.

Categories: Breast Surgery Abroad · Cosmetic Surgery Abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · Plastic Surgery · Plastic Surgery Abroad
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Babies on the Way : Fertility Treatment Options for the 21st Century

June 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

by PlacidWay

Infertility is a subject that many couples don’t want to discuss, but it’s an issue that millions of couples around the world deal with on a daily basis. The causes of infertility are numerous, from lack of ovulation to low sperm counts in men. Infertility is not just a woman’s problem, but because of basic anatomy and physiology, women’s ‘plumbing’ so to speak, is more complex and therefore apt to contribute more difficulties to conception than males.

Increase Your Chances of Conception
However, there’s hope on the horizon – new techniques and options in infertility are available not only in the U.S. but also around the world.

Common treatments today include:

  • IVF (in vitro fertilization)
  • OI (Ovulation induction)
  • Clomid treatments
  • AI (artificial insemination)
  • ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection)
  • IUI (intrauterine insemination)
  • Alternative Medicines

Whether you’re in your twenties or your forties, couples are finding new techniques to help their dreams of parenthood come true. Most fertility treatments help to increase the development of eggs within the ovary, which help to promote the chances of one of those eggs being fertilized by a sperm. For women who don’t have regular monthly cycles to those who just can’t seem to conceive due to ovulation difficulties, fertility treatments can help.

Treatments with drugs or medications are usually the first step, in an effort to try and stimulate and induce ovulation. These types of drugs are designed for women who have been diagnosed with ovulation difficulties and offers about an 80% success rate. Women who experience difficulties with follicle development, and thereby ovulation problems, may benefit from ovulation induction therapies, where hormones are given to stimulate follicle and egg development.

Intrauterine insemination is generally the next step in the infertility treatment process, also known as artificial insemination. Women experiencing fallopian tube defects or damage, as well as those with poor egg quality often benefit from this type of therapy. At this point, treatments can become quite expensive. Next often comes in vitro fertilization. This involves placement of an already fertilized egg into the woman’s uterus for implantation.

Please Click here to read more about ‘Babies on the Way : Fertility Treatment Options for the 21st Century’

Categories: Fertility Treatment · Fertility treatment abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · Medical Tourism Thailand
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Excellence in Obesity Surgery Abroad

June 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

by Denise

Since when is the United States the only place where individuals expect high quality and expert healthcare? Whether you come from Oklahoma or Britain, the Middle East, Africa, Asia or South America, individuals seek qualification, accreditation, and certification from their healthcare providers. Everyone wants and deserves quality healthcare in all fields, including bariatric surgery procedures.

Obesity surgery abroad offers individuals from around the world, but most especially the United States (as many cosmetic and obesity surgeries are not covered by health insurance policies) the opportunity to experience highly qualified, certified and accredited facilities in Latin America for obesity and weight loss treatments and procedures.

One such facility, called Angels Abroad, located in Guatemala City is one of the most popular and well-known healthcare facilities in Latin America when it comes to gastric bypass operation options, laparoscopic bariatric surgery, bariatric band surgery, gastric bypass information. Angels Abroad, one of the most well-known gastric bypass centers in Guatemala offers one of the best gastric bypass doctors in South America.

Please Click here to read more about Excellence in Obesity Surgery Abroad.

Categories: Bariatric Surgery Abroad · Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · Obesity / Weight Loss Surgery
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Last Hope Clinic

June 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

by BBC | Emcell

Stem cell transplants could offer the prospect of “science fiction-like” treatments to repair the human body in the future. But some desperately ill people are looking for a cure now.

Stem cells are the factory of our entire body.

They can reproduce themselves by dividing and multiplying into identical cells, giving them the potential to form any type of tissue.

On this basis, if stem cells offer the possibility of repairing every tissue in the body, does stem cell therapy have the potential to cure diseases where the problem is at cellular level, such as Parkinson’s, multiple schlerosis, muscular dystrophy and many more?

Quite possibly, but this treatment is controversial because the cells are harvested from fertilised embryos and aborted foetuses.

Leading researchers in the US have had their funding cut by the Bush administration because of these ethical issues.

But with the science still unproven, many desperately ill people are seeking help in other countries where clinical work with embryonic stem cells is permitted, such as Ukraine.

Stem cell bank
Twenty-year-old Stefano Tricarico makes the journey from his home in Italy to a clinic in the Ukraine that he thinks will help to save or improve his life.

He has terminal muscular dystrophy and feels he must go. “I realised that it was the only chance I had if I wanted to continue to have a decent life,” he says.

In a private clinic in Kiev he meets Professor Alexander Smikodub who is offering Stefano stem cell therapy for 15,000 euro (£10,000).

Some of Professor Smikodub’s patients say he is helping them and changing their lives, but his critics say the work has not been properly scientifically tested.

Please Click Here to request more information from EmCell Clinic.

Categories: Health Tourism · Medical Tourism · Stem Cell Treatment Abroad
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No Better Time for Cosmetic Surgery Abroad

June 16, 2009 · 1 Comment

by Denise

Once again, the summer months are almost upon us. We take a look in the near, try on favorite summer clothes, and realize that we’ve got some changes to make. Cheap plastic surgery is available to help take a nip here, a tuck there. Cosmetic surgeries may involve anything from liposuction to breast augmentation, a nose job, or even a thigh lift. Cosmetic surgeons in foreign destinations are highly skilled, world-renowned, and offer a multitude of cosmetic surgery procedures to meet any needs, at costs Americans can afford.

Cosmetic and plastic surgery and most cosmetic dental treatment procedures are not covered by medical health insurance in the United States. Is it any wonder that millions of Americans travel abroad to destinations such as Croatia, Brazil, or India for affordable plastic and reconstructive surgery?

Whether you’re looking for noninvasive plastic surgery, obesity plastic surgery or reconstructive cosmetic surgeons, the world is literally at your fingertips. Board-certified plastic surgeon options, plastic surgery specialists in cosmetic surgery center options are available in foreign destinations.

Please Click here to read more on ‘ No Better Time for Cosmetic Surgery Abroad’.

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