Cosmetic Surgery in Brazil
Zoom Pushes Brazilian Cosmetic Surgery Boom
Mirrors don't lie, nor does the screen during a videoconference: the virus-induced lockdown has led many Brazilians to undergo plastic surgery to look better. The pandemic has disrupted the medical tourism sector so Brazil has had to rely more on its domestic market.
With trips cancelled and restaurants mostly closed, many have extra cash to carry out such procedures. All the economists tell us we have been turned from spenders to savers this year.
Beauty clinics say demand for the cosmetic treatment has as much as doubled here since the pandemic began.
A typical client, Regiane de Oliveira Sousa, a 38-year-old sales representative from Sao Paulo spoke to AFP about how she has used her lockdown time wisely in self-improvement. Over the past six months, she has had cosmetic skin peels, breast reduction surgery, liposuction to remove unwanted fat, and facial harmonization treatment.
“Friends of mine have also taken advantage of teleworking to do these surgeries,” she told AFP.
Cost of the procedure: 3,800 reais (around $730), or almost four times the monthly minimum wage in Brazil.
Her surgeon, Cintia Rios, said there has been a significant increase in cosmetic operations this year, about 40 percent more compared to what was done before the pandemic.
“I had to lengthen my work hours and I hired three employees. Beauty is not in crisis, thank God!”
According to Rios, otoplasties — cosmetic ear surgeries — are also popular because people feel that wearing a face mask makes their ears stick out.
Usually, such surgery is for children around the ages of eight or nine, “but this year, many adults are doing it.”
Lips are also important, adds de Oliveira Sousa, “because during telework videoconferences we see each other permanently on the screen.”
Rios's clinic was forced to close from March to May due to strict lockdown measures to control the spread of the coronavirus. This affected domestic work as well as medical tourism.
Today, however, business at the clinic is booming.
Another typical Brazilian woman, Rita Monteiro Meireles, 34 saw the confinement as a chance to use her savings to carry out cosmetic surgery enhancements that she has dreamed of since her divorce three years ago.
“I didn't like my face, and after getting a bichectomy (surgery to remove cheek fat) I was the happiest person in the world,” she said.
Monteiro Meireles smiled as she looked at her new face in a handheld mirror, her lips still swollen after the botox injection.
Cosmetic surgery may serve as a palliative during times of anxiety and uncertainty, said Henriette Morato, a psychologist at the University of Sao Paulo.
“It's a way of demonstrating more control over your own life, to change what is still possible,” she said. This is a comment I have heard quite often from surgeons in the UK and France and it is an argument that is well rehearsed in the USA. It would certainly explain the boom in cosmetic surgery in Brazil
A Very Strange Year For Cosmetic Surgery in Brazil
Even though some cosmetic surgery clinics have seen demand for their services increase, “not everything is rose-coloured,” said Denis Calazans, head of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons — especially because of the multi-week lockdown earlier in the year.
“It's an atypical year,” he said.
“We should be showing figures lower than those before the pandemic” for the entire sector, he said, even if clinics offering simple procedures have done well.
Working at home and saving on money otherwise spent on travel or outings has allowed generally well-off Brazilians “to invest in themselves,” he said.
Brazil is the world leader in cosmetic surgery procedures, with 13 per cent of the global market, according to figures from the International Society of Plastic Surgery reporting on cosmetic surgery in Brazil
But when all cosmetic procedures — including non-surgical procedures such as botox injections — are included, it comes in behind the United States.
Brazil is a country where we have several highly rated clinics that we list for you here.
1. Clinée Aesthetic Medicine Rio di Janeiro Brazil
Aesthetic treatment or plastic surgery in Rio de Janeiro and Grande Rio, is at Clinée. With 8 reference plastic surgeons in abdominoplasty, rhinoplasty, liposuction, breast prosthesis in Rio de Janeiro, here you have plastic surgery in up to 24x to transform your life. Their beauty clinic in Barra da Tijuca, Shopping Downtown, awaits you!
Address
Shopping Downtown
Avenida das Américas, 500 - Bloco 11,
Loja 108 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Phone
2121466106
Checklist
- Private rooms for patients
- Accessible rooms
- Phone in room
- Medical records coordination
- Health Insurance coordination
- Interpeter & translation services
- Restaurant on premises
Procedures Offered
- Liposuction
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Reduction
- Breast Lift
- Blepharoplasty (eyelids)
- Abdominoplasty. (tummy tuck)
- Rhinoplasty (nose job)
- Forehead Lift
- Otoplasty (ear correction treatment)
- Thigh and Buttock Lift
- Rhytidectomy (Facelift)
- Gynecomastia (male breast reduction)
- Labiaplasty
- Hymen Repair
- Gender Reassignment Surgery
- Tattoo Removal
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2. Lifecare Clinic Rio di Janeiro Brazil
This clinic offers a very wide range of beauty and surgical treatments for its clients. They seem to be very focused on combining surgical interventions with ongoing aesthetic treatments. The director Dr. Alexandre Charão is accredited by Rede D´Or and worked for two years abroad, having received the O GLOBO Makes a Difference Award in 2006 for the set of surgeries performed outside Brazil.
Address
Aesthetics Clinic in Rio de Janeiro
Rua das Laranjeiras, 154 - store B (Near the Largo do Machado subway)
Phone
21980086950
Checklist
- Hotel Booking
- Private rooms for patients
- Accessible rooms
- Free Wifi
- Phone in room
- Personal safe in room
- TV in room
- Medical records coordination
- Health Insurance coordination
- Interpeter & translation services
Procedures Offered
- Liposuction
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Reduction
- Breast Lift
- Blepharoplasty (eyelids)
- Abdominoplasty. (tummy tuck)
- Rhinoplasty (nose job)
- Non-surgical Nose Job
- Forehead Lift
- Otoplasty (ear correction treatment)
- Thigh and Buttock Lift
- Rhytidectomy (Facelift)
- Gynecomastia (male breast reduction)
- Labiaplasty
- Hymen Repair
- Gender Reassignment Surgery
- Tattoo Removal
- Many non-surgical aesthetic treatments.
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They show 20% discounts on their website.
3. Dr. Thomas Benson Clinic
Dr. Thomas Benson Clinic combines comfort, safety and technology to provide a unique care experience. With 2 units in São Paulo, Vila Nova Conceição and Alphaville, the clinic has professionals specialising in various types of plastic surgery.
Dr Benson is a top surgeon & holds a Doctor of Medicine (PhD - Dr. Med.) Degree from the University of Hamburg Germany and a Doctor of Medicine (PhD) degree from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Address
Antônio Joaquim de M. Andrade Avenue, 315
Vila Nova Conceição - Postcode 04507-000
Sao Paulo - SP
Alameda Grajaú, 98 Ed. Pravda
13th floor - Alphaville - ZIP Code 06454-050
Barueri - SP
Phone
551143056070
Checklist
Procedures Offered
- Liposuction
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Reduction
- Breast Lift
- Blepharoplasty (eyelids)
- Abdominoplasty. (tummy tuck)
- Rhinoplasty (nose job)
- Non-surgical Nose Job
- Forehead Lift
- Otoplasty (ear correction treatment)
- Thigh and Buttock Lift
- Rhytidectomy (Facelift)
- Gynecomastia (male breast reduction)
- Labiaplasty
- Hymen Repair
- Gender Reassignment Surgery
- Cosmetic Dentistry
- Tattoo Removal
- PRP Injections
Cosmetic Surgery Packages Available
4. Dr. Marco Longo Clinic São Paulo Brazil
Dr. Marco Longo graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Curitiba. After finishing medical school, he studied Medical Residency in General Surgery and later in Plastic Surgery, both at the Hospital da Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP). His clinic has a fine reputation in rhinoplasty, liposuction and also in intimate female surgeries.
Address
Av. Paulista, 1636 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP, 01310-200
Phone
+9-8077-5150
Checklist
Procedures Offered
- Liposuction
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Reduction
- Breast Lift
- Blepharoplasty (eyelids)
- Abdominoplasty. (tummy tuck)
- Rhinoplasty (nose job)
- Non-surgical Nose Job
- Forehead Lift
- Otoplasty (ear correction treatment)
- Thigh and Buttock Lift
- Rhytidectomy (Facelift)
- Gynecomastia (male breast reduction)
- Labiaplasty
- Hymen Repair
- Gender Reassignment Surgery
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