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July 27, 2009

Multiple procedure downtime

Filed under: Facelift Surgery — Tags: , , , , , — Dr. Edward D. Buckingham, M.D. @ 8:44 pm

Marilyn,

Thanks for your question regarding down-time related to doing multiple procedures.  You mentioned facelift, fat transfer and blepharoplasty.  We talk about down-time in two categories.  Social downtime- when will you look OK to return to routine social functions, not necessarily be in a wedding however.  Total downtime- when will you look completely healed and as good as it gets. (not including things like the scar maturing to a complete white line, ie. it may be a little red after this time period)  The down-time from doing multiple procedures is dictated by the procedure performed with the longest downtime.  In your case that would be the fat transfer.  A facelift or blepharoplasty each has about a week of social down-time and about 6 weeks to 3 months of total down-time, again this is not really downtime, but is a good judge of when you could say take photos for something important.  The fat transfer has 2 weeks of social down-time for small and medium quantity transfers (10-30 cc) and as long as 3 weeks for larger transfers.  The total down-time is again 6-12 weeks.

I hope this has been helpful.  We would be happy to talk about this further with you at your convenience.

Ed Buckingham


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