One month after facelift/ neck lift surgery my ears are very uncomfortable. My right ear is worse the tragus (sp?) is tight sort of pushed in a bit. I have to open it to even get a q-tip in that ear canal. My inner ears feel like they are being tugged on. From my ear to my jaw line is very hard and tight, will that go away. I am not seeing the results of a defined jaw line that I wanted. Is it too soon? Also is it normal for my outer ears to feel numb and hurt when they touch a pillow?
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They are almost always a double fix needed.First suturing them together in the midline and cutting them as far down the neck as possible.Then their contrating has stretched out this neck skin and a tightening of yje nek skin is necessary
After 20 years in practice and a lot of facelifts I got my first parotid fistula about 4 months ago. It was not from a deep plane facelift. It successfully stopped after about 6 weeks as I recall. I had my patient use a Scopalamine patch and adhere to a very bland diet. I don't think the...
