| For those who are contemplating any surgical | | | | them. |
| procedure involving cosmetic alterations, being well | | | | Three years later in 1982, California created their own |
| informed is a vital part to ensure that you lower your | | | | board which was called the Board of Cosmetic |
| risks of complications. One of these things that you | | | | Surgery and was established for the same practical |
| should know is that any doctor can take an extended | | | | reasons that the Delaware corporation was created. |
| weekend course and say that they are a plastic | | | | Subsequently as a means to make things more |
| surgeon, but all that means is that a pediatrician or a | | | | universal especially due to the increasing number of |
| gynecologist can say that they are a plastic surgeon | | | | practitioner all over the country, in 1990 the two |
| just to make more money. In reality, you need to | | | | companies merged together to create what is known |
| check with your plastic surgeon to determine if he or | | | | now as the American Board of Aesthetic Plastic |
| she has been certified by the American Board of | | | | Surgery. |
| Plastic Surgery. | | | | Their goals are to maintain as well as achiever a |
| In 1979, when plastic surgery began to become | | | | higher standard in cosmetic surgery by the |
| popular, as a means to ensure the safety of the | | | | professionals who perform the procedures |
| patients, the American Board of Aesthetic Plastic | | | | themselves. They also set out to create a methodical |
| Surgery was created as a corporation in the state of | | | | means of qualifying a surgeon in the cosmetic surgery |
| Delaware. It was a created in order to establish a set | | | | industry. The American Board of Aesthetic Plastic |
| of practice guidelines to the standards and practices | | | | Surgery also has set out to create a training standard |
| of plastic surgery all across the United States. They | | | | on the industry as well as ensuring that all of their |
| are a means to ensure that a plastic surgeon knows | | | | professionals abide by the laws that have been set |
| to a great degree, the concept and complications | | | | forth by the proper authorities as a means to protect |
| associated with plastic surgery as well as how to fix | | | | those who seek plastic surgery. |