Can Nitro Bid ointment be used post operatively on a neck lift if patient is a smoker?

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Stephen Prendiville, MD · Answer

If nitro paste is used in the postoperative setting for facial aesthetic surgery, it is generally applied as a "rescue" measure for skin that appears less than healthy.  The best approach for a smoker considering a face or necklift is to stop smoking for 6 weeks prior and 6 weeks after the proedure

Todd C. Miller, MD · Answer

I do not recommend using nitropaste prophylactically to try and avoid complications from smoking. It would be much better if you stopped smoking permanently. If this is not possible, I would recommend quitting at least two weeks prior to surgery and 2 weeks following surgery.

John Frodel, MD · Answer

I have found that patient can get amazingly motivated to stop smoking for face and neck lift surgery.  It represents a time of self improvement and smoking cessation falls in line with this thinking.  If you can stop for 3 weeks or so before surgery, my guess is that you will stop permanently.  I would not try to overcome the risks of smoking with such topicals as nitropaste.  Be honest with your surgeon---have surgery when you've stopped smoking or else you will likely have complications.

Gordon Lewis, MD · Answer

Nitro paste will cause a dilation of the veins in the area to which it is applied.  Smokers primarily have an arterial flow deficit.  Notro paste can be used as a option when things are nto going well, but you don't want to be in the situtation in which things are not going well.  Stop smoking 4 weeks prior to your surgery.

Gustavo E. Galante, MD · Answer

In order to minimize the risks that smoking creates on a face/necklift procedure, it is best to discontinue smoking altogether before surgery. In my practice I have patients stop smoking 1 month prior to surgery and no smoking for 1 month following surgery. Hence, one might as well quit altogether...a good time to consider it. In addition, I would not count on any ointment to salvage a problem with the skin caused by smoking.

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