Corrections

The seventh statement of the wellness figure, on the page whose FAQ the sixth correction had just fixed. The health tourism guide credited the Global Wellness Institute with wellness tourism "crossing one trillion" in 2024, three paragraphs above an FAQ on the same page giving the Institute measured 894 billion and attributing the trillion to commercial research firms. The page contradicted itself for a day. The passage now gives the 894 billion and the Institute own 2019 to 2024 growth comparison, 6.4 per cent a year against 1.9 for tourism as a whole. The build check added with the sixth correction reported this page clean throughout, because it matched the retired sentence rather than the retired figure: it held the verb "above" and the page had been written with "crossing". That check now matches numerically and by proximity, so any trillion near wellness tourism fails whatever verb joins them, with legitimate uses listed by page and reason. Its three probes are held in test/retiredFigures.test.mjs.

An eighth statement of a retired figure, found by the rebuilt check on the first run. The cosmetic surgery guide put the saving at "somewhere between half and four-fifths off", which is the 50 to 80 per cent span retired from the medical tourism guide on 31 August for being unsourced. This page own table supports 58 and 60 per cent on the two procedures it prices itself, and nothing on it supports four-fifths. The passage now states close to 60 per cent and names those two procedures. The old check could not have caught this: it looked for the token "40-80%" on one page, and the same claim had been written in words on another.

Corrected a 2024 Grenada wellness report that three times said global wellness travel had passed one trillion dollars: twice in the body, once as reported context and once in the closing analysis, and once in the meta description. All three now give the 894 billion the Global Wellness Institute measures for 2024. This is a correction rather than a dated note because the claim was wrong when written, not later superseded: the Institute has never counted a trillion for a completed year, and its trillion is a projection for 2026. The news standard covers exactly this, correcting a claim that was wrong at publication or that attributes to a source something the source does not say, while leaving figures a publisher revised afterwards alone. The article carries a dated correction note at its foot.

A sixth statement of the wellness figure, found on a third page. The health tourism guide answered "How large is the health tourism market?" by crediting the Global Wellness Institute with putting wellness tourism above one trillion dollars, in both the visible FAQ and the FAQPage structured data. The Institute measures $894 billion for 2024 and does not project a trillion until 2026; several commercial research firms do put it above a trillion for 2025. This is the same error corrected on the wellness tourism page on 31 August and 1 September, on a page those corrections never looked at, and it was found by reading the published AI corpus rather than the page. The answer now gives the Institute measured figure and attributes the trillion to the firms that publish it. A build check now fails if any retired figure returns to any page or corpus.

Corrected a surgeon-fee figure and repaired its citation. The cosmetic tourism sources block quoted the American Society of Plastic Surgeons 2024 Plastic Surgery Statistics Report as giving abdominoplasty at $8,000-plus. The report gives a range, $8,000 to $13,500, and states in the same table that it now presents surgeon fees as a projected range rather than a single price; a range published as a range should not be quoted as a floor. The rhinoplasty figure, $7,500 to $12,500, was confirmed correct. The link had also gone dead: the publisher replaced the 2024 report with a 2025 edition and left no redirect. It now points at the Internet Archive capture of 23 August 2026, which is the document these figures were read from, with the publisher current statistics page beside it. Re-attributing to the 2025 report would have cited a document we have not read.

Restored the permanent-residence requirement for surrogacy, correctly cited this time as Article 46 of Law 5197/2025, Government Gazette A' 76 of 16 May 2025, amending Article 1458 of the Civil Code and Article 8 of Law 3089/2002. The claim was true throughout; it was hedged earlier the same day because its source entry had lost the citation and a check against the national authority's statute index appeared to contradict it. That index lists the Authority's standing governing statutes and does not show amending acts, so it was the wrong instrument to test the claim against. Added two provisions of the same article that had never been on the page: the clarification that inability to carry a pregnancy excludes inability arising from gender, barring single men and male same-sex couples, and the transitional rule exempting applications a court had already heard.

HEDGED IN ERROR, reversed the same day. Removed the claim that a 2025 reform requires permanent residence in Greece for surrogacy. It could not be supported: the national authority's own legislation page lists statutes only as far as Law 5102 of April 2024 and names no 2025 reform, the cited MDPI review describes Greek surrogacy as open under conditions, and the source entry for the claim carried no URL. The surrogacy passage now tells readers to confirm eligibility against current law rather than asserting a specific bar.

Completed a correction that was only half made. On 31 August the wellness tourism market figure was corrected from approximately $1.0 trillion to the $894 billion the Global Wellness Institute actually measures for 2024. That pass fixed the stats bar, the market table and the caption, and missed five further statements of the same figure in the body copy, including one naming GWI as the direct authority for a trillion-dollar figure it does not publish. For a day the page stated $894 billion in its table and a trillion three paragraphs below. All five are now corrected. Two dependent claims went with them: a projected growth range of "around six per cent to above thirteen", which the five firms named in the page own table contradict at 7.8 to 10.4 per cent, and a claim that wellness tourism has outgrown tourism generally "for more than a decade", where the measurer supports a five-year comparison only.

Two evidence-tier placements corrected after the tiers were cited for the first time. Continuous glucose monitoring moves out of the strong-evidence tier: it is validated and guideline-backed in insulin-treated diabetes, but its use as a metabolic screening tool in people without diabetes rests on early and mostly small studies, and that is the use longevity clinics sell. NAD+ precursors move down to the lowest tier: that nicotinamide riboside and nicotinamide mononucleotide raise NAD+ levels is well established, but that raising them delivers the rejuvenation or healthspan benefit sold is not, and those are different claims. The coronary calcium passage also lost the phrase "among the highest-value interventions in preventive medicine": the test is well evidenced for detecting disease, but a 2022 JAMA Internal Medicine review found no evidence that adding it to a risk calculator provides clinical benefit, the US Preventive Services Task Force grades that use insufficient, and the DANCAVAS trial did not reduce all-cause mortality.

Corrected the Brazilian buttock lift mortality figures to what the cited source states. The page gave roughly one death in 3,000 procedures against one in 50,000 for cosmetic surgery generally. The ASERF Task Force report in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, July 2017, surveyed 198,857 cases and gives four separate estimates spanning one in 6,214 to one in 2,351, stressing that none should be read as the actual rate, and puts aesthetic surgery as a whole in accredited facilities at one in 55,000. The chart, the FAQ and the schema now carry the range and the caveat rather than a single point, and the comparator is corrected.

Hedged in error and reversed the same day. A statement that Greek surrogacy is effectively closed to non-residents was softened after it could not be matched to a cited source, and has been restored because it is correct. The requirement is Article 46 of Law 5197/2025, Government Gazette A' 76 of 16 May 2025, amending Article 1458 of the Civil Code and Article 8 of Law 3089/2002: both the applicant and the surrogate must hold permanent residence in Greece for a court to approve an arrangement. The original defect was a lost citation, not a wrong fact. The check that appeared to disprove it consulted the national authority's index of its standing governing statutes, which does not list amending acts, so it was the wrong instrument for the question. Two provisions of the same article have also been added to the guide: the clarification that inability to carry a pregnancy excludes inability arising from gender, and the transitional rule for applications a court had already heard.

Corrected an attribution. The article credited the Global Wellness Institute with projecting a combined wellness and medical tourism market of $1.3 trillion in 2025 and $1.4 trillion by 2027. The cited GWI page carries no forward projection at all, and expressly describes wellness tourism and medical tourism as operating in separate domains. The passage now reports the $894 billion 2024 figure GWI does publish, and the separation it draws.

Corrected the wellness tourism market table. The Global Wellness Institute row read approximately $1.0 trillion for 2024 and credited a GWI page that states $894 billion. The trillion figure was a November 2023 GWI forecast that GWI itself then measured below, so a projection was being presented as a count. The row now reads $894 billion, the stats bar figure was corrected with it, the travel-spending share is now stated as the 18.7 per cent GWI publishes rather than "around one in five", and a basis column distinguishes measured figures from the firms own estimates.

Corrected the register search to require a name, reconciled the implant-only price endpoints against flagship clinic pricing, and softened the date of the cross-border trade's origin.

Raised the UK All-on-4 floor to reflect 2026 pricing.

Re-attributed the flying guidance to the UK Civil Aviation Authority, replaced a loosely sourced mortality figure with the English hospital episode statistic, reframed bariatric certification as a subspecialty credential layered on general-surgery board certification, cited the World Health Organization for the named hospital in the 2019 outbreak, and cited the 2025 border-complications paper to its journal and DOI.

Added the 2025 residency requirement for surrogacy, updated the donor anonymity position for the optional open donation introduced in 2022, and reframed the donor-egg success figures as clinical pregnancy rather than live birth.

Updated the foreign-patient volume to 1.17 million for 2024 and softened the share attributable to plastic surgery, contextualised the implant complication range against 2022 pooled rates, corrected the description of a cited source, raised the primary rhinoplasty ceiling, softened the foreigner surcharge claim, and named the window for the ghost-surgery estimate.

Corrected the won to dollar conversion throughout, restating porcelain veneers at about $700 to $1,500 per tooth and recomputing the full-smile band, and raised the composite floor.

Widened the abutment and crown range and specified that it covers standard rather than premium restoration.

Re-dated the dental-tourism volume figure to 2019, updated the Los Algodones parking cost, softened the arbitration-body specifics, and noted the US All-on-4 range as the premium end.

Updated the baht exchange rate and tightened the description of the dental register's English-language interface.

Credited the 2022 British Dental Association survey directly rather than through a 2025 journal paper, softened the full-arch prosthesis complication claim to what the cited review supports, hedged the manufacturer guarantee portability claim, limited the immediate-loading citation to single-implant restorations, and restated ten-year survival as 93 to 96 per cent.

Re-sourced the staple-line leak range to a 2020 systematic review, added the Ministry obesity-surgery certificate and authorised-unit requirements, corrected the pre-operative diet from liquids to a low-calorie low-carbohydrate regime, re-attributed the flying guidance to the Civil Aviation Authority's ten-day figure, re-dated the BOMSS statement to September 2023, and split the follow-up attribution between NICE NG246 and QS212.

Updated the UK advertised and true-cost figures to the current published report, softened the imported donor sperm share to more than half, and re-attributed the phrase on multiple births to the regulator's expert group rather than the regulator.

Corrected the venous thromboembolism timing claim and re-cited it, re-attributed the cosmetic-tourism complication share to the BAAPS database, re-dated the joint BAAPS and TSPRAS guidance to June 2023, removed an unsupported UK price figure, restated the seroma rate from its cited review, and softened the compression, smoking and flying windows.

Corrected the pulp-necrosis figure to about 5 per cent after indirect restorations, re-dated the Mirror case to June 2023, restated the 2020 survival review as ranges rather than point estimates, corrected prosthodontics specialty training to three years, corrected the BDA survey to 1,000 dentists, softened the JCI accreditation count, re-attributed the multilingual patient line to the International Patient Support Unit, corrected the technician wage ratio, re-cited the crown median to its own sample, and reworded the exchange rate footnote as a derived cross.