December 15th, 2009 admin
11. Are there any techniques that I’m not aware of to perform the same procedure?
12. How long should I take time off of school, work etc. to heal properly?
13. Is there much pain?
Personally I’ve always found pain to be a personal experience. Overall though, I find that most cosmetic procedures are not inordinately painful for patients.
14. Which medications will you prescribe for me?
Your surgeon should definitely tell you this.
15. Which type of anesthesia will I be getting?
Some procedures can be done under many different types. The choice should be a combination of what the patient likes and what the doctors feels comfortable giving.
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December 2nd, 2009 admin
As everyone knows now the former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano died during a buttock lift from a pulmonary embolism (blood clot to the lungs). Unfortunately complications can happen with any kind of surgery. Even if the surgeon does everything right problems can arise. There is an old saying in surgery,”If you don’t have any complications, you’re not doing enough surgery.”The best we can do as surgeons is make sure that the patient we operate on is in the best shape or the procedure and we take all the precautions we can to minimize risk.
This article on CNN.com
highlights some of the dangers involved with cosmetic surgery. No surgery, no matter who performs it, is totally risk free. Your surgeon should inform of all risks before the procedure. Fortunately accidents like what happened to Ms. Magnano are very rare and plastic surgery overall is safe. Just make sure you have a properly certified surgeon by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the surgery is done in an accredited operating room. If you do that , you’re off to a good start.
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