Unfortunately, in Asia, the term ‘plastic surgeon’ may be used by someone who is not in fact a plastic surgeon. In Australia, a plastic surgeon will have ‘FRACS’ (Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) as the qualifications after their name and it is easy to check whether your surgeon gained their FRACS in plastic surgery (and not another surgical subspecialty). Members of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons are all fully-qualified Specialist Plastic Surgeons.
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