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
