Plain answers for Australians weighing cosmetic surgery in Thailand: what a quote leaves out, how to check who is operating on you, and how long recovery takes before you fly home.

Cross-Border Cosmetics works between Australian patients and partner hospitals in Thailand. This channel is the research part: short explainers on the questions people ask before they book, from reading a surgeon's registration to what the first week after surgery really looks like.

We show the costs and the risks as well as the reasons people go. Nothing here is medical advice: every decision about surgery is made with a surgeon, after a consultation.

Australian Patients. Thai Hospitals. Cosmetic Surgery.