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5 Weeks After Facelift, I Feel Beebee Sized, Tender, Nodules Under my Skin on Sides of Face. What Are They & Why?
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Deb in Calif
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Small beads under skin after Facelift
Hi,
Most probably they are small dried blood clots or they could be sutures. Your surgeon should examine them and make a determination. If they are clots, a little massage can make them go away over time. If they are sutures they will not.
Best,
Dr.S.
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5 Weeks after Facelift and Tender Nodules
These nodules are likely plication sutures that should improve with time if absorbable sutures were used. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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Tiny Bumps/Nodules by suture line following facelift
Tiny Bumps/Nodules by suture line following facelift are typically buried suture knots. If they are absorbable which is the usual case they will self resolve. If permanent they may remain or eventually work their way out to the skin. Ask your surgeon his thoughts.
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Small Nodules after Facelift
Most likely, these are the muscle sutures placed to help reshape your face. In most cases, they dissolve over 6 months. I would discuss your concerns with your plastic surgeon and maintain close followup for this.
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Healing after a facelift
The nodules that you can feel underneath the skin after your facelift are likely related to the sutures used to tighten the underlying muscular layer (SMAS). If your surgeon used dissolving sutures, they will likely disappear with time.
Dr. Jamil Asaria, FACE Cosmetic Surgery, Toronto, Ontario
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Bumps After A Facelift
Tiny bumps and small asymmetries after a facelift are most likely the result of sutures. Ideally, sutures are buried so that the patient does not palpate the knot of the suture. Most of the time with dissolvable sutures these bumps disappear of the next several weeks. Permanent sutures can sometimes lead to bumps and have a higher incidence of suture extrusion as well.
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5 Weeks After Facelift, I Feel Beebee Sized, Tender, Nodules Under my Skin on Sides of Face. What Are They & Why?
Most likely these are sutures that will dissolve over the next several months. We use sutures to tighten the layers of tissue beneath the skin, which is the real facelift portion, and those suture knots can be felt until they dissolve. Also sometimes the tissues bunch from being tightened and that will smooth out over 4-6 months.
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Concerns regarding nodules after facelift
The nodules you feel are most likely the knots of the sutures which have been tied for the SMAS lift. The SMAS lift tightens the underlying layers including the muscular aponeurotic there and adds to the longevity of the result of the facelift. The nodules generally become non-palpable with time.
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Subcutaneous nodules after facelift
The small nodules that you are feeling are most likely due to the knots of the sutures that are used to suspend the mid/ lower face. These are usually dissolving, and may take several months to disappear. light massage may be helpful, but I would suggest you speak to your surgeon about your concerns.
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Bumps after facelift
This may be underlying sutures or contour abnormalities in the tissues under the skin depending on the technique used by your surgeon. Small hematomas can also cause nodules. See your surgeon for reassurance. Donald R. Nunn MD Atlanta Plastic Surgeon.
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5 weeks is the start of when the face will be a little lumpy bumpy.
One persons lumpy bumby is another persons bee bee. There is a great deal of healing that takes place with a facelift. There can be some warm and tenderness associated with but these can also be signs of an inflamed suture. I do strongly recommend going and seeing your surgeon. Let them assess you and tell you what it going on. It is their job to worry about you so you can relax and focus on recovery.
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Nodules under my skin after facelift
These may be sutures that were used to suspend the muscle underneath the skin. If you had lipocontouring done they may be little lipoknots which are little inflamed balls of fat although it is a bit unusual to do lipo in the cheeks. It could also be inflamed areas of muscle along the suture line underneath the skin. I would follow up with your surgeon to ensure that you are healing according to plan.
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Could represent sutures
It is possible to have areas of swelling so soon after facelift surgery. It can sometimes take 3-6 months for a majority of the swelling to fully resolve. However, these "bee bee" sized nodules could represent sutures that were placed under the skin to tighten the deeper fascial tissue - only your surgeon would know for sure. It would be good to bring this up with him/her as I am sure he/she would want to make sure that you are healing well.
Best, Dr. Honrado
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