Is Steroid Medication Given for Swelling and Pain from a Coronal Brow Lift?

Pain after any type of brow lift is limited. I do a nerve block with Marcaine after surgery to minimize pain immediately after surgery. I also give patients Medrol, which is a 6 day regimen of steroids which will decrease swelling, one of the major causes of post-op pain.

For most of our facial plastic surgery procedures , including brow lifts, forehead reductions and hair transplants, we give  short and long acting corticosteroids usually by intramuscular injection while the patient is asleep. I strongly believe that this lessens the amount of post operative swelling. I am not sure it has any affect on pain.  Injections  of a long acting anesthetic into the nerves at  the eyebrows and temples are routinely given to lessen the postoperative pain that we otherwise see in post operative browlifts or forehead reductions. It is rare that coronal browlifts are done these days, but the approach to this procedure is what is  the surgeon's preference . Pain and swelling differ little with all the approaches.