Mayaness, you say that it is a reflection on our society that young girls are desperate for this surgery and don't place a great deal of emphasis on the effect it will have on their ability to BF
Nah, not quite what I was driving at. Among other things, I am also saying that women and girls need to push for techniques that optimise any chance of being able to BF, rather than it having to be about choosing between pain and breastfeeding your possible future children. It just doesn't rate enough as important in our society to make the extra push, or even for younger girls to realise just what their making a choice about to know it's not good enough to hope for the best and not expect better outcomes for back health AND breastfeeding.
Anyway, word of mouth is important, not how much you'll pay. My mum was quoted stacks more for a cosmetic surgeon she saw first before realising she could claim on Medicare with a plastic surgeon.