in questions about how long are my results going to last I think everyone
needs to be prepared that cosmetic surgery is not a forever thing it's
not going to happen just once and you're going to be done we do continue to age
we do get continued exposure to elements and we don't age in just a straight line
we age in spurts so there are some times where nothing seems to change for a few
years then all of the sudden over a period of a couple months people have a
lot of aging it can happen more with stress and your life things like
changing jobs moving death of a spouse or a family member we all know those are
things that really age people probably not only externally but probably do so
internally as well but we need to do a really good job of educating our
patients and everybody out there that yes you're gonna have cosmetic surgery
and you know what if you really are paying attention and concerned about
your looks now you're probably going to be concerned ten years from now and be
prepared that you're probably going to want to do something else to maintain
what you've done at this point it's a really common question with any
procedure that we do is like how long is this going to last
women have often been told with a breast augmentation that like you're gonna have
to get this redone every ten years which is a fallacy manufacturers warranties
lasts about ten years and it would be great for the surgeon
if we knew patients were gonna come back every ten years and just have to change
them out it would be a good annuity but it's just not true
implants probably last much much longer than that and if people are not having
an issue they really just don't have to come in and have surgery with other
surgeries like let's say a facelift or eyes things that make somebody look
younger people want to know well when am I going to have to redo this well if it
doesn't bother you in the future you're never going to have to redo it the
reality is once we finish surgery you start aging or right away again
so results lasts for about a minute but they also last forever because you're
always going to look better than before the procedure took place you're always
going to have that turn back in time I think that really we see people repeat
surgery on their face somewhere between 7 10 12 years dependent upon the
procedure things like eyes sometimes age a little bit quicker
other areas sometimes we do the neck never needs to be addressed again so we
find it different between procedures and different areas a great question are
there things that we can do as surgeons to make a patient's results last longer
and I think that it starts with the choice of the procedures because we know
that there are some things that we can do that we'll probably have a lifespan
of you know two or three years of improvement maybe laser in an area can
tighten it for three or four years but if we did a more formal surgery it might
last for six or seven or eight years one might be easier to recover from and so
people choose that now as opposed to something that might get a longer
lasting result but I think the things that we can do are in the choices of
what we're going to do probably the most that they can do is maintain a healthy
lifestyle that's going to help not gain weight after liposuction it's going to
help be fit after a tummy tuck it's going to just help with your looks
and general people that are active and healthy seem to stay and be more
youthful the other thing is what we should all be doing anywhere basically
good skin care which starts out with sunscreen and doctors will beat you over
the head with it but if you can be preventative and take care of your skin
and take care of yourself that's really going to save on your aging down the
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