After ptosis surgery, if the immediate surgery is successful, can the surgery fail several years later or is there a lifetime expectation that it will not have to be done again?
August 23, 2014
Answer: Longetivity of ptosis surgery (assuming this is your lids and not breasts) vary by your surgeon's technique as well as the quality of your tissues. Gravity always wins out over time.
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August 23, 2014
Answer: Longetivity of ptosis surgery (assuming this is your lids and not breasts) vary by your surgeon's technique as well as the quality of your tissues. Gravity always wins out over time.
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August 23, 2014
Answer: Ptosis Ptosis means sag.It is caused by aging, local stress on tissues and genetic tendencies.Tissues continue to age (you lose roughly 1% of your tissue elasticity per year) as you do.Thus, surgery to remove existing ptosis always "fails" with time.You can usually expect 5 to 10 years before further tissue stretch requires touch-up or redo surgery,although I have seen cases of unusual tissue stretching which required touch-up sooner.If you're having a mastopexy, and don't wear good support afterwards, or do a lot of trampoline or play volleyball, you will stretch out sooner rather than later.
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August 23, 2014
Answer: Ptosis Ptosis means sag.It is caused by aging, local stress on tissues and genetic tendencies.Tissues continue to age (you lose roughly 1% of your tissue elasticity per year) as you do.Thus, surgery to remove existing ptosis always "fails" with time.You can usually expect 5 to 10 years before further tissue stretch requires touch-up or redo surgery,although I have seen cases of unusual tissue stretching which required touch-up sooner.If you're having a mastopexy, and don't wear good support afterwards, or do a lot of trampoline or play volleyball, you will stretch out sooner rather than later.
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