Angela Segal provides a very helpful service. As an independent consultant she helps people make better choices about their plastic surgery. As anyone can appreciate when you are meeting with a cosmetic surgeon, no matter how noble his intentions are, he also sees big dollar signs hanging in front of him and that can cloud his judgment. No wonder patients like Donda West and Stephanie Kuleba paid with their lives.

So when you are trying to make up your mind about a procedure, the surgeon, and the recovery retreat, here are few tips from Segal:

Don’t fall in love with the surgeon. Keep it professional. A sweet-talking surgeon may be terrible in the operation room while an aloof surgeon might perform great surgery.

Price is not everything when it comes to your health. Shop around but do not pick a surgeon based on price alone. If you push too hard, the surgeon will simply try to cut costs somewhere and that can hurt you.

Pay for your consultation. Paying for your consultation with the surgeon proves to the surgeon that you are serious and you can get great advice because the surgeon does not feel the pressure to sell since he is already being paid for his time.

Nora writes, “I have touched my chest already and it does not feel that I have a tumor. But what makes me worried is that my left breast always changes its position. Do you understand what I mean? Obviously it makes me feel difficult to wear a bra. Do you have any suggestion to prevent this from happening? I wonder that why my breasts sagged so early? I wear a bra all the time. I am still very young; just 20. I wonder about this a lot and it is bothering me. Please help.”

Is it possible for you to find out if your two breasts have very different sizes? Both breasts are slightly different but it would be nice to know if the difference is very big. You can see it if you stand in front of a mirror wearing a bra. For instance the larger breast will spill out of the bra cup. What I want to make sure is that you are not suffering from what is known as asymmetrical breasts.

The other possibility that I am thinking about is that you are not wearing the correct bra for you. It is either too big or too small. Read here how to find your correct bra size.

Plastic surgery at a young age is a growing trend and in many cases it makes sense. For instance, liposuction for obese kids or breast reduction surgery, but in other cases, it may not. For instance, breast augmentation for vanity reasons is purely an elective procedure.

But 18-year old Stephanie Kuleba was going under the knife for medical reasons. She had beautiful breasts but she also suffered from asymmetrical breasts and had an inverted nipple. Thus, she decided to go under the knife after thinking about it a lot. And no, she was no bimbo. She had a near perfect GPA and wanted to be a doctor.

While many people forget that plastic surgery has risks, her story shows how careful you must be in deciding to have a procedure and choosing only the best surgeon for the procedure. Due to a serious adverse reaction to anesthesia, she passed away before any surgery could be even started.