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Dubai becoming top cosmetic surgery tourist destination

(20 Oct 2014) LEADIN Dubai is trying to position itself as the cosmetic surgery capital of the Middle East. Business is currently booming and experts attending the 9th World Health Tourism Congress in Dubai hope to see an increase of around 12 percent by 2016. STORYLINE A botox injection in the lip... One of the thousands of cosmetic procedures being carried out in Dubai every year. 41 year-old restaurant manager Irena Tsoneva - originally from Italy - has come to the London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery in Dubai for a correctional touch-up with Dr. Roberto Viel. Her new lip-fillers should last 10 months before a return visit is required. Tsoneva also receives injections in her brow and around her nose. Dr. Roberto Viel is performing the routine operation. He set up this clinic in Dubai in 2006 after finding many of the patients at his London Harley Street branch were from the Gulf. But now foreigners are choosing to stay - or even travel - to Dubai for their surgery. In 2012, over 100,000 foreigners came to the country specifically for cosmetic surgery in an industry worth nearly USD $180 million and the market is booming with forecasts predicting 12 per cent rises, year on year. Dr. Roberto Viel has one of the only cosmetic surgery clinics in Dubai that includes a surgery room and a post-operative recovery room. Dubai is quickly growing to be a global hub for plastic surgery. According to the Emirates Plastic Surgery Society, there were 60 plastic surgeons with the group in 2006 and there are now 105 in Dubai. The Dubai Health Authority says overall there are around 150 licensed surgeons working in the emirate. Some industry experts claim Dubai is surpassing Beirut as a regional cosmetic surgery destination, due to many factors such as ongoing political instability in Lebanon, easy access with visa on arrival, the availability of top quality surgeons and luxury hotel and entertainment options all in Dubai. Doctors are not only seeing a re-direction of patients from Beirut, but they are also seeing an increase of international patients walking into their office who would have normally gone to Europe or North America for surgery, as these patients are starting to realise that the city attracts many well-known visiting doctors and has a good selection of clinics with the same standards of price and quality as in any major destination for cosmetic surgery. It is also a more convenient place to travel to for most, as Dubai is also within an eight hour flight time from two-thirds of the world's population. "So I think that more people, in my opinion, will divert from Lebanon, Beirut to come to Gulf to Dubai for these treatments also because Dubai will attract a lot of international medical doctors and surgeons with a good reputation and thus will create a good hub for healthcare in the future," says Dr. Roberto Viel. One of those choosing to have surgery in Dubai rather than her native UK is 33-year-old fitness instructor and mother-of-three Emma Jones. She says prices are comparable with the UK (around USD $8,000) but the waiting lists are much shorter in Dubai. Jones currently lives in Dubai but through word of mouth she might persuade friends back home of the merits of a short fly-away surgery break. She is looking to have breast augmentation surgery and also to have some stretch marks reduced. Attending her meeting with the doctor is Vasilica Baltateanu, who set up her own plastic surgery consultancy in 2013. She says the appeal of Dubai is that the doctors here understand the concept of subtlety. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...