 [ Symptoms ] why should not i shop for the best price for my face lift or my nose job [ Disease ] i am not saying that one should not shop for quote the best price but the question is is there a correlation between price and quality in other words if the practitioner is very very good as determined by your having seen the work done by someone i am sorry let is say that you have determined that the practitioner is quite good because your friend had surgery and your cousin had surgery and his fee is less than someone else is hey it is a no brainer but the question is if the work is very good in a doctor who charges more than another doctor and how much is the difference and can you quantitate a better practice on the base of cost let me tell you it is difficult sometimes there is no rhyme or reason some practices are very expensive and yet would not be my pick for practice of the week and there are others who are really surprisingly very economical now i can tell you why some practices can be very good at what they do and yet not be the high priced leader it does not mean they are the walmarts they are not the low priced leader but the reason is they are very efficient for example a surgeon can take an hour to do the same nose job that another takes 3 to 4 hours now the doctor that takes 3 – 4 hours has to charge more for his time that is all he is selling so you are getting probably an inferior service because if he is a 3 or 4 hour nose job surgeon he is probably not as skilled as the one hour he just does not have the facility he does not have the experience does not have the efficiency built in because the operation still has x number of steps so i would say that the surgeon that is less experienced and you should be able to glean that by asking how long have you been doing how many cases or what percentage of your practice are noses and he is charging more that does not make sense it does not pay to pay more for an amateur it may pay to pay a little more for the master and by the way the difference in cost is not going to be a factor of two or three it could be 10 or 15 in this community here the range in services from people that i think are very very good nasal cosmetic surgeons can be from 8 500 to say 10 500 11 000 it is not going to be 30 000 so again as a percentage the span is not all that great from my experience as i too am looking for a good priced face lift <positive_smiley> i think that you should contact the royal centre of plastic surgery i have not made up my mind but that was where i started