How soon after a lower facelift can I take an airplane flight?

Thanks for the question. Generally, most patients can fly within 24 to 48 hours after facelift surgery. I wish you all the best.

In all elective surgical procedures including facelift is recommended that she would not fly on an airplane for 10 days after surgery.  This is because there is increased risk of blood clots in her legs called thrombophlebitis not related to the facelift per se but related to anesthesia and any surgical procedure.

Good question.  We see a lot of out of state patients.  If everything is healing well than after 7-10 days a patient can fly back home.  I take the sutures out I'm 7 days so it allows us to remover the patients sutures and assess the healing.