a lot of people wonder what it's like to go through the process of having a
facelift and facial cosmetic surgery and so what we're going to do today is we're
going to take you through the process from your consultation all the way
through surgery and all the way to your three-month follow-up when we take your
after photos
the thing that has people come in for a consultation regarding a facelift is I
believe that eventually we all look in the mirror and what looks back at us is
not what we feel like we really are inside so the the face doesn't match the
youth that we feel inside and we want the outside to match the inside and so
what happens is people get older flaws show up in our faces and we want to take
the mask off and reveal the real us underneath it takes a lot of courage to
even make the phone call you know you think about it for a long time it can
take years for people to decide to have cosmetic surgery some people come in for
the thing they're bothered by their neck some people come in with a direction
they want to go I'd like to look younger and fresher and those are two different
conversations of course if you are just interested in the thing that's what we
focus on but it's an opportunity to look at your whole face some people come in
and they want to focus on their neck and their cheeks and and they only want to
focus on the bottom half some people come in and they only want to focus on
the eyelids and they want to do the top half but the questions are are all
similar you know it's about what can we accomplish what is it that you want to
do because you're the senior partner in the relationship and every face is
different and it's all custom designed based on your Anatomy and what you want
to accomplish and what you're willing to go through and so once we decide what it
is that you want to do then we put you over on the schedule for your surgery
and your pre-op visit until we schedule a time for the surgery and then before
that we have a pre-op visit at the pre-op visit you come in
and we do things like we take your pre-op photographs we have you read
and sign those scary consent forms we write all the prescriptions that you're
going to need for your surgery so that the morning of surgery we don't have any
of that stuff to do the morning of surgery then it will be your next
appointment after the pre-op and then so the morning of surgery you come in and
what we do is we take your blood pressure and we're getting you ready for
surgery you'll see the anesthetist you'll see me you will go through the
list well make certain that we got it exact I'll ink you up and and then what
happens is after we are certain of every little detail then we walk you to the
operating room the the anesthetist starts an IV in your arm and for the
patient it seems that quick you're getting in the car and you wake up and
you go when are we going to do it and it's over we wheel you to the car or if
you would like you can spend the night in our facility we have an overnight
room with a nurse if not you go home with your support person and I call and
check on you at night and we see you back very first thing the next morning
usually and we unwrap it and make sure everything is the way we left it if
everything is good like it usually is then you can go home and get in the
shower and get a soapy and wet if you want to because soap and water won't hurt it
what I look for on the first day postoperatively is I look for symmetry I
want to make certain that one side of the face is not a lot more swollen than
the other if it bleeds underneath the skin it will swell if that happens about
1% of the time and so I'm looking for those little things I'm also looking for
the color of the skin to make certain that it's getting good circulation and
that it's gonna heal well and then just the overall everything and how you're
doing and so if everything looks good like it almost always does I can send
you home and we would see you back five or six
days later to get out some suitors and we see you back then and then we see
you back usually on the 10th or 12th day to get the rest of all the sutures out
and then we probably will see you back at a month after that and then a couple
more months after that to take your post-op photos I generally think that at
3 months you look really good even though you might not be totally finished
with it but we think that at 3 months you look really good enough and we take
photographs then I guess scars will improve sometimes for a year or more and
so those little things sometimes can take a little longer but you get a
beautiful result about 3 months some people get a beautiful result by a month
and depending on what you do some people get a beautiful result before then it
just depends on on how you heal and what exactly you have done go ahead and hit
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