Thank you for your question!
You’re asking can you get a vampire facial the same week as a lower eyelid blepharoplasty
because you want to overlap the healing processes.
And certainly, that’s a very reasonable question.
Just to give you a little bit of a background, I’m a board certified cosmetic surgeon and
fellowship trained oculofacial plastic surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Long Island for
over 20 years.
I have been a part of the vampire facelift network for many years and resource for media
when it comes to questions about the vampire facelift and of course, the associated procedures,
the vampire facial.
In terms of the vampire facial, just for the explanation, is essentially a combination
of a micro-needling process using to the use of a derma roller or a medical microneedle
to create little openings in the skin to stimulate collagen as a response to this fine trauma
and then applying platelet-rich plasma which is used for wound healing and has remarkable
properties to stimulate collagen and improve blood supply and refresh the skin.
And then, platelet-rich plasma is applied on top.
That being said, it seems from the phrasing of your question that it would not be the
doctor who is performing the blepharoplasty who’s going to be doing the facial.
And I think that is something that is a little bit of a concern for me and I’ll explain
why.
When you have cosmetic eyelid surgery, at least in our practice, we clean with Betadine
the whole face even though we’re working just on the eyes that’s to ensure proper
sterility.
My concern is, if you’re going to have the vampire facial done elsewhere prior to the
procedure, the skin may still be healing and there may be a potential for irritation from
the use of the topical antibacterial solution such as Betadine or chlorhexidine that’s
used to sterilize and clean the face before surgery.
In our practice, since I do the vampire facelift and the facial, I would routinely, it’s
comparable to doing a fractional CO2 laser or any other complementary procedures, I’ll
do both at the same time.
I’ll do the lower eyelid blepharoplasty and the vampire facelift or vampire facial,
whatever PRP treatment is appropriate at the same time.
So, there’s a true overlap with the procedure and not the risk of any irritation.
So you may want to discuss this with your doctor if your doctor isn’t going to be
performing that vampire facial procedure about doing that.
Where, if someone else is going to the facial beforehand, how many days before that will
they be comfortable with?
Understand that the deeper the needle goes in the microneedling aspect, the longer the
healing process and the more time would be appropriate to wait so the skin heals over
well enough that the use of topical antibacterial will not be irritating and will take away
the benefit of the procedure.
So again, ideally, I think the way we do it, I would do both procedures concurrently but
discuss this with your doctor if it can’t be done at the same time.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!