Northern New Jersey has board certified plastic surgeons scattered across the landscape. All of those New York commuters that live in New Jersey have access to cosmetic plastic surgeons in any number of towns including Wayne, Paramus, Englewood, Red Bank, East Brunswick and many others. Sussex, Warren, Passaic, Essex and Morris Counties all have aesthetic plastic surgery groups that provide a range of plastic surgery procedures. You don’t have to cross into New York to find highly trained board certified cosmetic surgeons.

Southern New Jersey is really part of the Philadelphia metro area – another collection of suburbs such as Camden that has its own collection of medical service centers and practitioners. Because New Jersey has been a suburban choice at both ends of the state it has developed mature markets for every type of consumer service imaginable, including body enhancement.

Today’s cosmetic plastic surgeons generally practice out of their own offices or clinics, known in the medical world as ‘ambulatory surgery centers’. This term refers to the fact that virtually all plastic surgery procedures including breast augmentation, face lifts, rhinoplasty or body sculpting, can be done in a non-hospital setting with the patient returning home the same day.

That has allowed cosmetic plastic surgeons to establish their own facilities for the unique set of medical services that they offer. Procedures such as eyelid surgery or a brow lift that may require general anesthesia are performed with a licensed anesthesiologist in attendance. When the operation is completed the patient recovers in a room set aside for post-operative care and is allowed to return home – provided, of course, that someone else is driving.

New Jersey’s board certified surgeons generally also offer treatments with the new types of fillers such as Botox. Liposuction is also used in virtually all outpatient cosmetic surgery clinics. Liposuction can be applied to a certain area of the body by itself, or it can be used in conjunction with such treatments as arm lifts, neck lifts and tummy tucks to sculpt the body both surgically and through fat removal.

When you are looking for the right cosmetic plastic surgeon, be sure to ask about his or her board certification. Don’t stop there: you should also ask about certification of the doctor’s facilities, who the anesthesiologist is, and any questions you may have about pre- and post-surgical care.