Consultation with the plastic surgeon:

It is very important the patient has a frank and open conversation with his doctors and overcome all unnecessary fear. The doctor will let the patient know about the risks involved, precautions, medications, and other supplements to be taken after and before the operation. He also lets the patient know about the total cost of the operation. The surgeon also gets a complete and clear idea about his health, the medicines which he is taking for a long time and what are the medicines that he should abstain from, before and after the operation. The doctor also comes to know about his family history.

Surgery results:

The surgery results may vary from person to person depending upon his build, total amount of body fat, the kind of operation that he has gone through. Those who are smokers or have a habit of chewing tobacco, take longer time to heal.

Today, machines for computer imaging are used to guess the appearance of the patient after operation. This is also an innovative method by which the doctor and the patient are drawn closer. However the patients must be aware of the fact the computer imaging cannot guarantee any positive result and that the results vary from person to person.

Use of anesthesia for plastic surgeries:

Local anesthetics are most commonly used for this purpose. The patient remains conscious in this case. The local anesthetics together with the sedatives make the area to be operated senseless. General anesthesia is administered when a larger part of the body needs to be operated. In this case the patient becomes fully unconscious.

Procedures involved in a plastic surgery:

The office based surgeries are very cost effective. Surgeries performed in this manner must ensure that all the staffs and doctors involved are trained and competent enough.

Authorization by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Plastic Surgery Facilities (AAAAPSF) guarantees quality services. It sees to it that all the doctors are trained and practices in reputed hospitals.

Plastic surgeries can cure the following defects:

·    Birthmarks
·    Improper development of breasts
·    Cleft-lip
·    Deformations of palate
·    Deformations in hand
·    Skull, ears, facial bone deformations

Injuries sustained through burns or accidents:

·    Scars
·    Wounds
·    Burn scars
·    Treatment of cancer and mastectomy
·    Wounds not healed properly
·    Lacerations
·    Limbs, fingers, toes cuts
·    Injuries in skulls and bones
·    Deformed breast

Cosmetic problems:

·    Excess of body fat
·    Disproportionate breasts or sagging breasts
·    Wrinkle, pigmentation, damage caused due to exposure to sun, unwanted tattoos
·    Sagging skin
·    Hair loss
·    Nose jobs, lip correction

When is an abdominal surgery performed?

Abdominal surgeries are performed in cases of hernia, severe back pains, and ulcers

When is a breast surgery performed?

·    It’s performed when the breasts are deformed

·    Too large compared to the rest of the body and is painful for the lady

·    Gynecomastia

When is an ear surgery performed?

·    For correcting deformed ears

·    Reconstruction of ears that has be deformed as a result of an injury or disease

When is an eye surgery performed?

For curing drooping eye lids

When is a facial surgery performed?

·    To bring back the facial symmetry, that has been distorted as a result of paralysis

·    For repairing the muscle of the face, lips, cheeks

·    Deformations resulting from trauma

·    Head and neck deformations

When is a nasal surgery performed?

·    For correcting birth defects

·    Treating nasal deformations

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