Facelift: Q&A
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I am considering going out of the state for Facelift. How many days should I stay before returning home?
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david135
in california, USA
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Recovery Time For a Facelift
Recovery time is a universal concern for prospective patients and the most frequent question during consultations. Since there is no way to perform a surgical procedure without some recovery, it is important to first dispel the myth of "no downtime" surgery. The "lunchtime lift" belongs in the land of unicorns and flying pigs and should be dismissed as a marketing term. The initial phase of recovery involves some degree of swelling and bruising...
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Recovery time for a facelift
The recovery time for a facelift is largely a matter of appearance. Most patients feel fairly normal after a few days and depending on the type of procedure will look fairly normal in 10-14 days. Assuming everything goes well with the surgery, it should be safe to return to your home after that time.
Good luck and best wishes on your surgery.
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Recovery time after facelift
Generally patients can travel 7 to10 days after surgery. If possible, I like to see my patients again after a few months, and again long term. During that interval, internet communications are comforting to a patient.
The recovery is a different matter. Some patients heal fast, some slow. Patients who have a straightforward facelift will usually be "presentable" faster than patients who have their eyes, brow, cheeklift, lip lifts, LiveFIll, laser etc. done at the same time...
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Recovery from a facelift
Depending on the procedure done and how careful your surgeon is with stopping bleeding and thus minizing bruising and swelling, the stay I would recommend if you were my patient is 10 days. But obviously you should follow your own surgeon's advice.
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Most Patients Feel Pretty Good in About 4-5 Days Following Facelift Surgery; However, Recovery & Healing May Take Months-1Year
Facelift recovery varies from patient to patient and depends on a large number of variables. Just as every patient is unique, the chosen procedure for he or she is unique as well. The differences in wound healing characteristics and the type of procedure performed account for variations in facelift recovery. Most patients feel pretty good in about four to five days, but their primary concern is when will they be able to go out in public. Recovery following facelift...
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Recovery Time for a Facelift
The recovery time for a facelift is 10-14 days if one has an isolated facelift, it may even be less. If one has additional eyelid surgery it may be at least 2 weeks before returning to work.
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Recovery Timeline for Facelift
Many of my patients fly in for surgery. For a facelift we like them to stay in town a minimum or 7-10 days but 2 weeks is the best. We always are available by phone and e-mail along with video conferencing and sending electronic photos if questions. I would suspect that this is also available with your surgeon. If you really don't want any one to know you had a surgical procedure you might consider an extra week.Patients should expect swelling, discoloration, and bruising of the skin for a...
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Recovery time for out-of-state facelift
When patients come in from out-of-state, it is important to have them in town for approximately ten days prior to going back home to make sure there are no complications from the facelift surgery. The complications that can occur are fluid pockets in the neck, hematoma, infection, and the overall healing process. It is important that none of these are occurring prior to the discharge back to home, and that usually takes approximately ten days.
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Recovery Time for Facelift surgery
We frequently do facelifts for patients who live in other parts of the United Sates or out of the country. We recommend they stay in Beverly Hills for one week post-op. Although they stay here for one week, usually it is 10-14 days before they resume normal activities with few restrictions.
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Recovery for facelift is a journey, not a destination
On average, I like my patients to stay in town for 1 week following any facial surgery as we check them frequently and sutures are removed at the end of the week. Travel would be ok at that point if there were no healing issues. How long it takes to recovery is more complicated. If you mean how long until I can go back to work I advise my patients to take off around 2 weeks. Some people heal faster than this and some will heal slower than this. Hope this helps.
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