What is a safe number of facial procedures to have at once and how would you combine them? For example: face lift, browlift, upper and lower blephoplasty, fat transfer? Is it better to do a couple of them at a time to lower your risk of complications? If so which procedures would you combine first? Thank you for your expertise!
October 12, 2023
Answer: Safety in Facial Rejuvenation For a healthy patient seeking facial rejuvenation, the set of procedures you mentioned can be safely performed at one time and is considered routine. This assumes an experienced Surgeon who moves at a pace of an experienced Surgeon. This saves you from multiple anesthetics and multiple recoveries. However, if you have any cardiac, pulmonary or other chronic issues of concern, you should first have a complete medical workup to determine your suitability
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October 12, 2023
Answer: Safety in Facial Rejuvenation For a healthy patient seeking facial rejuvenation, the set of procedures you mentioned can be safely performed at one time and is considered routine. This assumes an experienced Surgeon who moves at a pace of an experienced Surgeon. This saves you from multiple anesthetics and multiple recoveries. However, if you have any cardiac, pulmonary or other chronic issues of concern, you should first have a complete medical workup to determine your suitability
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October 10, 2023
Answer: Up to you and surgeon Hi! It's completely up to you/your body and your surgeon. If you have any risk for undergoing long trips of anesthesia, it might be better to split it up vs. multiple trips under anesthesia can also be risky. If it were not an issue of anesthesia alone, it is absolutely fine to undergo all of it at once. If you did want to split procedures, I usually recommend treating the eyes in their entirety in one unit because they will rely on each other (browlift will mean less skin excision for upper bleph, etc.), and then doing face in another go around (fat+facelift). Good luck!
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October 10, 2023
Answer: Up to you and surgeon Hi! It's completely up to you/your body and your surgeon. If you have any risk for undergoing long trips of anesthesia, it might be better to split it up vs. multiple trips under anesthesia can also be risky. If it were not an issue of anesthesia alone, it is absolutely fine to undergo all of it at once. If you did want to split procedures, I usually recommend treating the eyes in their entirety in one unit because they will rely on each other (browlift will mean less skin excision for upper bleph, etc.), and then doing face in another go around (fat+facelift). Good luck!
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September 27, 2023
Answer: Combo procedures are safe I generally think having one anesthetic and one recovery is best. However, there are limits to a surgeons ability to operate skillfully over very long cases. Each surgeon has their own rules of how long they’ll operate. The combination above is safe to perform as one procedure but you will have a long recovery and difficult few days after the procedure. If you were to break them into multiple procedures, I would combine the brow lift and blepharoplasties as one procedure and then do the facelift and fat grafting as another. Pending the technique used for the lower blepharoplasty, the surgeon may want to do fat grafting with that procedure.
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September 27, 2023
Answer: Combo procedures are safe I generally think having one anesthetic and one recovery is best. However, there are limits to a surgeons ability to operate skillfully over very long cases. Each surgeon has their own rules of how long they’ll operate. The combination above is safe to perform as one procedure but you will have a long recovery and difficult few days after the procedure. If you were to break them into multiple procedures, I would combine the brow lift and blepharoplasties as one procedure and then do the facelift and fat grafting as another. Pending the technique used for the lower blepharoplasty, the surgeon may want to do fat grafting with that procedure.
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