Understanding possibilities, limitations, and individual differences.
Surgical decisions involve potential benefits, medical risks, and expectations about results and recovery. TRC organizes information and nonclinical arrangements around your planning. Your independent clinical team evaluates your individual circumstances and explains the medical considerations relevant to your care.
This notice provides general information. It does not replace a clinical consultation, procedure-specific risk discussion, or informed consent.
1. Surgical procedures involve risks
Elective surgery, including cosmetic and reconstructive procedures, involves risks. The nature and likelihood of complications depend on the procedure, anesthesia, your health, and other individual circumstances.
Potential complications may include bleeding, infection, blood clots, anesthesia-related complications, wound-healing difficulties, scarring, asymmetry, changes in sensation, persistent pain, tissue injury, and results that differ from expectations. Some complications may require additional treatment, hospitalization, or further surgery. Serious injury or death can occur.
This list is not exhaustive, does not apply equally to every procedure, and does not describe your personal risk profile. Your treating professionals are responsible for discussing the risks relevant to the care they propose.
2. Results and expectations are individual
Appearance, function, healing, and the durability of results vary from person to person. Relevant factors may include anatomy, health, prior procedures, the treatment performed, individual healing responses, lifestyle, and adherence to clinical instructions.
Photographs, models, testimonials, illustrations, and examples describe or depict particular experiences or possibilities. They do not predict what another patient will experience.
Aesthetic Studio selections, visual planning features, saved goals, and other TRC tools communicate your interests. They do not establish that a particular result is medically achievable or that a provider will recommend the procedure you have considered.
Your desired results are an important starting point for discussion—not a promise of a particular outcome.
3. Suitability, alternatives, and the decision to proceed
An appropriately licensed treating professional must assess whether a proposed procedure is suitable for you.
That assessment may lead to a recommendation for a different technique, a different procedure, nonsurgical care, postponement, or no treatment. Multiple procedures may require separate consideration of whether they should be combined or performed at different times.
Selecting a procedure, obtaining a cost estimate, arranging financing, or scheduling through TRC does not establish medical clearance or require a provider to proceed.
You may seek another clinical opinion or decide not to undergo treatment. Any financial consequences of cancellation or rescheduling are governed by the applicable agreements and law.
4. Procedure-specific discussion and informed consent
Your responsible clinical providers must explain the proposed care and obtain informed consent as required by applicable law.
The discussion should address the expected benefits, material risks, reasonable alternatives—including no treatment where appropriate—limitations, anesthesia considerations, and anticipated follow-up and recovery needs.
You should have an opportunity to ask questions and clarify expectations before deciding whether to proceed.
TRC may organize consultation questions and coordinate administrative communications within your selected services. TRC does not obtain medical informed consent on a provider’s behalf or replace the provider’s clinical explanations and consent documents.
Reading this notice or using a TRC planning tool does not constitute consent to a medical procedure.
5. Complications, revisions, and additional costs
Unexpected care may involve additional appointments, tests, prescriptions, procedures, anesthesia, facility services, supplies, or changes to travel and accommodation. Additional charges may apply.
The responsible clinical professionals determine appropriate treatment. Each provider’s financial arrangement identifies the charges and policies applicable to its services.
A revision policy may address only certain services or circumstances. A reduction or waiver of one provider’s fee does not necessarily cover anesthesia, facility charges, supplies, or other expenses.
Within your selected services, TRC may organize available policy information and coordinate questions about these arrangements. TRC does not guarantee that revision or complication-related expenses will be waived, reimbursed, or covered by insurance, a warranty, or another program.
Any coverage or reimbursement depends on the applicable terms and circumstances.
6. Recovery is personalized
Recovery varies by patient and by the procedure or combination of procedures performed. General recovery descriptions and estimated milestones are educational references, not personal medical instructions or guarantees.
Your clinical team determines the instructions appropriate to your circumstances, including activity restrictions, return to work, travel, medications, supplements, wound care, and follow-up.
Follow those instructions and seek clarification from the responsible clinical team when needed. Do not start, stop, or change prescribed treatment based solely on general TRC information.
TRC’s nonclinical recovery services may provide preparation resources, check-ins, and practical coordination within your selected arrangement. They do not replace clinical examinations, wound assessment, or medical monitoring.
The duration of a support service does not establish how long healing will take or when you are medically ready to resume an activity.
7. No guarantee of clinical outcomes
TRC does not guarantee a surgeon’s performance, the absence of complications, a particular recovery course, or a specific aesthetic or functional result.
Surgeon information review, financial comparison, planning, and coordination do not eliminate the risks of medical treatment. Participation in a TRC service or support program does not create a warranty of clinical outcomes.
TRC remains responsible for its own statements, services, and conduct as required by law. Nothing in this notice waives patient rights or excludes responsibilities or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.
8. Urgent concerns and emergencies
Follow your treating provider’s instructions for postoperative concerns and use the practice’s direct urgent-contact route when medical advice is needed.
Do not wait for a response through TRC’s website, email, messaging, automated assistant, or nonclinical check-ins. These services do not provide continuous clinical monitoring or emergency response.
If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 in the United States or seek immediate emergency care. Outside the United States, use the local emergency number.
If you cannot reach your treating team about an urgent concern, seek appropriate urgent medical assistance.