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Can These Procesdures Be Performed Under Local Anesthesia?
Hello Doctors,I wanted to know if a endoscopic browlift,mini facelift,cheek implants and eyelid surgery can be performed under local anesthesia? Everybody is mentioning less bruising and less recovery time when procedures are performed without general anesthesia. Just would like some opinions on what is safer for all of these proedures. Also can liposuction be performed under local if its the only procedure to be performed? Thanks for all your help.
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Multiple Facial Procedures under Local
An endoscopic browlift, mini facelift, cheek implants and eyelid surgery will be more comfortably performed under general anesthesia. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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Procedures performed under local anesthesia
With all of the procedures being performed, such as a brow lift, facelift, cheek implants, and eyelid surgery, it should be done under general anesthesia by a board certified physician anesthesiologist. The amount of pain and discomfort would most likely be more than most patients could tolerate and for patient safety reasons it is best to be placed under general anesthesia. The anesthesia itself has no correlation to the healing process or bruising, it is simply there for...
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Any operation can be performed under local anesthesia but most of the time that is a not the best choice.
I suppose you could almost any operation with local anesthesia and a lot of patience. However, in this age of very safe sedation and general anesthesia, it makes no sense. I do a number of procedures with local only but this is done with careful consideration of the extent of the operation and the patient's ability to deal with some discomfort.
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In my practice I performed all my surgeries from including hair transplants, eye lift surgeries, brow lift, face lift, cheek implants as well as body procedures including breast augmentation, reduction, liposuction, and tummy tucks under local anesthesia with sedation.
In my opinion, its debatable regarding the recovery time when procedure is done under general anesthesia. It’s been my experience that people who have cosmetic surgery under general anesthesia actually have a longer...
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Anesthesia Choices for Facial Aesthetic Surgery
First off, I do not think the type of anesthesia influences either the recovery time or the amount of bruising. Although it is possible to do all of these procedures under local anesthesia - your comfort is the most important concern. You will have to lie still for hours and you will be aware in many cases of injections. For procedures more than 3-4 hours I would recommend IV sedation or a general anesthesia.
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Cosmetic surgery under local anesthesia
It is possible to perform these procedures under local anesthesia. However, it really depends on the individual circumstances of the patient. During a consultation with your surgeon, he/she will be able to explain the best method of anesthesia based on your needs. And if liposuction is the only procedure performed, local anesthesia can be used. Thanks and I hope this helps answer your questions.
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Anesthesia with facial surgery
Yes, these procedures can be performed under local anesthesia, but do to the length of these combined procedures, I would not suggest doing so. General anesthesia allows for control of your blood pressure to decrease blooding during surgery and hopefully better hemostasis and less bruising after surgery. To lie still for four hours or so to do these procedures under local anesthesia may be difficult. If you start to move or readjust on the surgery table, the surgeon will...
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Can These Procesdures Be Performed Under Local Anesthesia?
IMHO and I perform all of these procedures, the Brow Lift and the Cheek Implants should not be done under a local anesthetic as they will be uncomfortable to you during lifting up of the periostium.
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Can These Procesdures Be Performed Under Local Anesthesia?
100 doctors will have 100 different opinions on this one. For me, safety is first. Using local anesthesia only means injecting only numbing medication like going to the dentist and nothing else. In my opinion this is ill advised for all of the procedures you are looking to do. You would need a combination of local anesthesia and IV sedation or general anesthesia if you were my patient. If you trust your surgeon then ask for patients names from your surgeon that you can speak to who have had...
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Plastic surgery and anesthetic options
Improvements in local anesthetic techniques have allowed surgeons to continually expand the breadth of procedures that can be performed without general anesthesia. Local anesthetic in combination with IV conscious sedation many times can create an effect similar to general anesthesia. It is very important for you to make sure that you will be comfortable throughout the entire surgery. Just because a patient can tolerate a surgery under local anesthesia doesn't mean that it is the right...
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