When can you eat normal sodium intake after buccal fat removal? (photo)

Great question!  Although every surgeon may have preferences when it comes to postoperative care, I generally have patients resume a regular diet right away, as long as its not hard (chips, nuts) or too spicy.  I generally give all my patients a steroid pack to help decrease the swelling.  You should as your surgeon to see what he/she thinks.
Best of luck and hope this information helps!
- Dr. Roger Tsai  
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

Diet restrictions after buccal fat removal depends on the surgeon's preference and advice to his/her patients. In my practice, my patients do no require to have a low sodium diet post-operatively. They just need to avoid hot temperature food like hot coffee, hot tea, hot soup, etc., during the time the mouth is numb due to the local anesthesia (approximately 12-24h). Patients with diet restrictions after surgery should ask their surgeon when it is safe and ok to resume normal diet.