I'm having buccal fat removal. Will smoking marijuana affect the healing or cause an infection?

Buccal fat excision is an appropriate surgical procedure for patients that of overly full and wide cheek areas. In common terms, it is good for patients who have chipmunk cheeks. Liposuction can be used to further slim the face. You are a patient that would need and in person consultation for a ...

You are a good candidate for  BFPR (Buccal Fat Pad Removal) When a patient has a full and round face and despite weight loss the fullness persist or if the patient is in his normal weight and the chipmunk faces has stayed all the time, a bichectomy or buccal fat pad removal is...

Buccal fat removal is the plastic surgery procedure that helps to slim down the face to achieve a chiseled facial appearance. The video bellow helps to understand who would be a candidate for buccal fat removal. In patient with good cheek bones and good jaw bone, buccal fat removal could ...

The buccal fat removal incisions inside the mouth usually heal completely leaving almost an invisible scar. It is possible that sometimes the scar heal "bumpy". In case the buccal fat removal have "bumps" around it, the patient shall get that physical finding checked out by the surgeon that...

The amount of buccal fat to be removed during surgery varies according different factors. Those factors include the amount of buccal fat encountered and most importantly the cheek look that ultimately the patient would like to achieve.  In muy practice most of patients like to have a...

Prolonged swelling after buccal fat removal (more than a week) is possible specially if the surgery was difficult. Then the surgeon encounters a buccal fat that is very difficult to remove (e.g when the surgeon struggles to take the fat out), the more surgical dissection of the area the more and...