Planning Treatment at Schlosspraxis Brühl with Long-Distance Travel

It helps us immensely for a non-binding initial assessment if we have current, meaningful photos in advance. For planning an abdominoplasty/ rectus diastasis surgery, we ask you to take photos from the front and side (with stomach pulled in and after exhaling) against a neutral background (e.g., door or white wall). You can also perform a 3-D simulation from home in advance when planning breast augmentation, without an appointment in our practice.

The next step is then a telephone appointment with our patient advisors. In this conversation, you can ask all questions about the treatment process. Experience has shown that a personal consultation appointment with a thorough examination cannot be replaced by a phone call or video chat. Therefore, we would like to invite you to visit us at Schlosspraxis Brühl to discuss everything else personally with one of our specialists.

If you have decided on treatment at Schlosspraxis Brühl, we plan an appointment in our practice together, depending on your individual travel arrangements. In addition to a personal examination and determination of the exact surgical procedure, necessary pre-operative preparations (e.g., blood tests, informed consent) can also be carried out on this day.

Depending on how far your journey is, it may make sense to arrive in Brühl the day before. On this page you will also find an overview of possible hotels that you can book in advance for an overnight stay. For some procedures, we can also schedule the surgery time for midday or early afternoon so that you can only travel on the day of surgery. However, for some operations it makes sense to start early in the morning. The length of the inpatient stay depends on the type of procedure and the distance of your place of residence. For breast augmentation, it is usually sufficient to stay 1-2 nights, for rectus diastasis surgery or classic abdominoplasty, an inpatient stay of 2-4 days is advisable. The inpatient accommodation takes place on the private ward (usually 2-bed room) of the adjacent Marienhospital Brühl. There you will be cared for day and night by experienced nurses and we visit you at least 2 times daily for rounds.

In principle, short-term wound checks should be carried out after 1, 2, 6 weeks and long-term checks after 6 and 12 months. If you have a long journey (> 200 km), we recommend that you contact your family doctor or a surgeon in your immediate vicinity in advance so that colleagues can possibly take over a follow-up check. Since we use self-dissolving sutures in most cases, only special plasters often need to be removed before you can start scar care. Here too, we are happy to work with photos to monitor the healing process despite the long distance.