The ISAPS 2025 global survey puts Mexico third in the world for tummy tucks and says a third of its aesthetic patients arrive from abroad, most of them American. Dr. Frank Agullo trained in Mexico City and practices on the border. His advice to a patient pricing surgery in Juarez is fair, specific, and short.

Doctors Magazine featured Dr. Frank Agullo on how to talk about cost without shame, and his answer is the way Southwest Plastic Surgery runs every consultation: the exam first, the quote second, in a different room, after the patient is dressed. Here is the step-by-step, the published fees page, and the financing options the coordinator walks through.

Seven in ten Southwest Plastic Surgery patients travel to El Paso for surgery, and Travel Bulletin recently quoted Dr. Frank Agullo on staying healthy in the air. This is the practical checklist the practice gives fly-in patients: when to land, what to carry through the airport, how long to stay, what goes on your legs for the flight home, and what to do if you catch a cold on the way.

Surgical patients at Southwest Plastic Surgery are followed by a nurse practitioner at two weeks, six weeks and three months. Here is what happens on those calls, in her words.

Every surgical patient at Southwest Plastic Surgery gets a twenty to forty-five minute call with a nurse before surgery. Here is what happens on it, in their words.

Nearly every patient who books at Southwest Plastic Surgery has already spent hours on before-and-after photos, and most bring one to the consultation. Dr. Frank Agullo explains how to read them: why a daily feed beats three perfect pictures, why a wish photo has to match your age and BMI, the four things a photo cannot show, and the six-month settle that never gets posted.

Traveling for surgery is a logistics problem before it is a medical one. What the fee covers, when patients fly home, and how recovery is scheduled around the trip.

Fat transfer moves fat from where you do not want it to where you do. Dr. Agullo explains retention rates, donor sites, recovery, and how it compares with fillers and implants.

More patients come to Southwest Plastic Surgery to plan and save for surgery rather than book on the spot. How the practice supports planning, the two buckets of cost, and the GLP-1 effect.