Will Smoking Marijuana Affect Healing After Lower Blepharoplasty?

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A.J. Amadi, MD · Answer

It is unlikely that marijuana smoking will affect your eyelid healing. However, I would still not recommend it. Your judgement may be affected with marijuana use and you may do other activities that MAY affect your healing process.

	Lay off the reefer for a couple of weeks.

Kenneth Hughes, MD · Answer

It probably has little effect, but why chance it?  Healing well is important and it is not merely the active ingredient of the marijuana that is inhaled.  Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of eyelid surgeries each year.  Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results.  Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

Dominic Bray, MBBS, FRCS · Answer

The short answer is they do not mix well.

	I would avoid if at all possible in the peri-operative period. The fact the question has been asked here suggests this is a possibility!

	Good luck.

Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD · Answer

Marijuana will not affect the way a lower lid blepharoplasty heals. Even patient sitter heavy cigarette smokers will really not suffer wound healing consequences with lower eyelid surgery.

Adam David Lowenstein, MD, FACS · Answer

I recommend that my patients avoid smoking anything for 3 weeks after surgery- the smoke can impair oxygen delivery to your tissues which you will want to optimize to achieve the best scarring.

Will Smoking Marijuana Affect Healing After Lower Blepharoplasty?

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Answer: Marijuana smoking does not affect healing after lower lid blepharoplasty.

Answer: Marijuana smoking does not affect healing after lower lid blepharoplasty.

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Will Smoking Marijuana Affect Healing After Lower Blepharoplasty?

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Answer: Marijuana smoking does not affect healing after lower lid blepharoplasty.

Answer: Marijuana smoking does not affect healing after lower lid blepharoplasty.

Answer: Smoking and healing

Answer: Smoking and healing

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