Medical tourism on the rise, but interventions not without risk: ‘I no longer feel part of my cheeks’ | Inland

Up and down to Turkey for a snow-white smile, to South America for a buttock augmentation or to Portugal for a new nose: doctors see that it is increasingly normal for the Dutch to have a cosmetic procedure performed abroad. Medical tourism is a rapidly growing multi-billion dollar business, but doctors are concerned about the rising number of patients returning with complications.