Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: February 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Breast Capsulectomy

Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Breast Capsulectomy: "Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Breast Capsulectomy: 'Breast Capsulectomy is the surgical procedure to remove capsules which have formed aroun..."

Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Glabella Frown Lines

Cosmetic Surgery in Thailand: Glabella Frown Lines: "Glabella Frown lines are the most common reasons for a Botox procedure. The folds in this area are caused by vertically oriented fibers w..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lateral Eyebrow Lift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lateral Eyebrow Lift: "Lateral Eyebrow Lift corrects the drooping of the outer brow line. This technique is also known as a temporal brow lift, and addresses sag..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Old Fractured Nose Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Old Fractured Nose Surgery: "Old Fractured Nose is a break or crack in a bone in your nose, often the bone over the bridge of your nose from severe accident which can ca..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Deviated Nose Surgery (Septoplasty)

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Deviated Nose Surgery (Septoplasty): "Deviated Nose (Septoplasty) is an operation to correct a deformity of the nasal septum. The usual purpose is to improve nasal breathing, but..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Tip Plasty and Tip Graft

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Tip Plasty and Tip Graft: "Tip Plasty and Tip Graft may be performed to reduce a large, square, or bulbous nasal tip, to treat an upturned or sagging nasal tip, or..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Reduction Rhinoplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Reduction Rhinoplasty: "Reduction Rhinoplasty is for patients who have prominent large noses with oversized bridges and depressed nasal tips. It aims to create a we..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Conjunctival Incision Blepharoplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Conjunctival Incision Blepharoplasty: "Conjunctival Incision Blepharoplasty is another type of cosmetic procedure used to remove pocket of fat beneath the lower eyelids but not ti..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Conjunctival Incision Blepharoplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lower Eyelid Blepharoplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lower Eyelid Blepharoplasty: "Lower Eyelid Blepharoplasty is used to remove the fat deposits and loose skin that may form on the lower eyelids with age. An incision is ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Incisional suturing technique

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Incisional suturing technique: "Incisional suturing technique is the type of cosmetic surgery procedure where the skin around the eye is reshaped to create an upper eyeli..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lip Enhancement Surgery (Lip Augmentation)

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lip Enhancement Surgery (Lip Augmentation): "Lip Enhancement Surgery (Lip Augmentation) A thin lip can be augmented with the patient’s own tissue (fat, anadesma), with implantation of a..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Nasolabial Folds Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Nasolabial Folds Surgery: "The nasolabial folds also known as marionette lines or smile lines, run from the nose to the corner of the mouth. They separate the cheeks ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Buttock Lift or Butt Lift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Buttock Lift or Butt Lift: "A buttock lift or butt lift is a cosmetic surgical procedure that is more concerned with improving the tone and contour of the buttock by..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Thigh Lift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Thigh Lift: "Thigh lift is a cosmetic surgery procedure designed to tighten the skin of the thigh and reduce sagging in the inner or outer thigh resul..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Augmented Mammoplasty (Breast Augmentation)

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Augmented Mammoplasty (Breast Augmentation): "Augmented Mammoplasty (Breast Augmentation) is an operation to increase the size of the breasts using implants. The implants have a silico..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Total Facelift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Total Facelift: "Total Facelift also known as rhytidectomy, is a cosmetic procedure to reduce sagging skin and lines by removing excess skin and fat, and ti..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Temporal Lift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Temporal Lift: "A temporal lift is a cosmetic surgery procedure designed to address signs of aging around the eye. This procedure can be combined with a f..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Mid Facelift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Mid Facelift: "Mid facelift is a plastic surgery procedure that restores a smooth, youthful look to the lower eyelids and cheeks. During a mid face lift, s..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Buccal Fat Removal

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Buccal Fat Removal: "Buccal Fat removal is a surgical procedure to remove the fat pads that augment the lower part of the cheeks. During the buccal fat removal, ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Prominent Ear Correction

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Prominent Ear Correction: "Prominent Ear Correction is a cosmetic ear surgery, also known as otoplasty, designed to reduce the size of large ears or pin back ears tha..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: V-line mandibular contouring surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: V-line mandibular contouring surgery: "V-line mandibular contouring surgery allows for reduction of the chin to a more slender and oval shape without increasing its length. The ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Mandibular Angle Reduction (Reduction Angleplasty)...

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Mandibular Angle Reduction (Reduction Angleplasty)...: "Mandibular Angle Reduction (Reduction Angleplasty) reduces the width of the lower face and change a square face to an oval one. The incisio..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Cheek Bone Augmentation

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Cheek Bone Augmentation: "Cheek Bone Augmentation is a facial surgical procedure that improves the facial structures. Normally the surgeon will make incisions inside..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Sliding Gonioplasty or Chin Advancement

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Sliding Gonioplasty or Chin Advancement: "Sliding Genioplasty also called 'Chin Advancement' is a plastic surgery procedure designed to change the shape of the chin to harmonize wit..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Incisional suturing technique

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Areolar Reduction

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Areolar Reduction: "Areolar Reduction procedure removes the excess areola tissue and improves the overall cosmetic appearance of your areola. Incisions are mad..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Trachea Shave Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Trachea Shave Surgery: "Trachea Shave Surgery (commonly called Adam’s apple Shaving) is a surgical procedure in which the thyroid cartilage is reduced in size by ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Trachea Shave Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Brachioplasty or Arm Lift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Brachioplasty or Arm Lift: "Brachioplasty, also known as arm lift reshapes the under portion of the upper arm, from the underarm region to the elbow. Good candidates ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Open Upper Blepharoplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Open Upper Blepharoplasty: "Open Upper Blepharoplasty is a popular type of cosmetic surgery procedure that removes excess skin, fat or muscle from droopy upper eyelids...."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Alar Resection

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Alar Resection: "Alar Resection is a cosmetic surgery procedure of the nose that narrows the wide flaring and large opening of the nasal nostrils.The alar ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Labial Reduc...

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Labial Reduc...: "Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Labial Reduction or Labiaplasty: 'Labial Reduction ( Labiaplasty)Labiaplasty also referred to as labio..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Labial Reduction or Labiaplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Labial Reduction or Labiaplasty: "Labiaplasty is a surgical procedure that will reduce and/or reshape the labia minora - the skin that covers the female clitoris and vaginal ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Labial Reduction or Labiaplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Thigh Lift

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Thigh Lift: "Thigh lift is a cosmetic surgery procedure designed to tighten the skin of the thigh and reduce sagging in the inner or outer thigh resul..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Lip Enhancement Surgery (Lip Augmentation)

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Male to Female Sexual Reassignment Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Male to Female Sexual Reassignment Surgery: "Male to female Surgical Procedure:Sex change surgery for male to female involves the removal of the penile muscle and testicles reshaping ..."

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Open Upper Blepharoplasty

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Sliding Gonioplasty or Chin Advancement

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Scalp Reduction Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery Information Guides: Scalp Reduction Surgery: "Scalp reduction surgery involves removal of bald scalp and bringing the hair-bearing scalp closer to it to fill in the bald area on the scal..."

Scalp Reduction Surgery

Scalp reduction surgery involves removal of bald scalp and bringing the hair-bearing scalp closer to it to fill in the bald area on the scalp. In this operation the surgeon reduces the baldness by cutting out a segment of the bald scalp skin.

Duration of the procedure:

Scalp reductions require about 3-4 hours for each step of the operation.

Post-Operative Care:

You will wear a compression garment over the head to provide support, which should not be removed for the next few days following surgery. It is important to take the medication prescribed to you by your surgeon to manage discomfort from swelling and bruising. Someone will need to drive you home. Patients normally experience swelling and some numbness for the first few days following the procedure. Because the skin needs time to soften, tightness in the scalp is also common for several months after the operation. Scabbing is also common

Recovery Period:

. Most patients will be able to return to work within 3-5 days following the procedure.

Possible Risks and Complications

There might be some minor complications and side effects of scalp reduction surgery. Some possible complications during and after the surgery include scarring at the suture lines, scalp skin “stretch back” at the excised bald area and central midline scar called slot deformity. Side effects of this hair restoration surgery include temporary discomfort, swelling and numbness in the operated area.

Anesthesia use:

General or local anesthesia with sedation

Hospital admission:

Scalp reduction surgery can be performed on an out patient basis or in the hospital under local or general anesthesia. You and your surgeon will discuss preferences.

Preparation before Surgery:

Assessment of the medical history (any allergies, serious medical condition and all medications taken both prescribed and non-prescribed), physical examination, and laboratory tests will be performed during consultation.

Smoking must be avoided for about 3-4 weeks prior to surgery, as nicotine interferes with circulation and will greatly affect healing process.
You will likely to be asked to stop drinking alcohol, a week before the surgery and throughout your recovery period.
Avoid taking any medications such as hormones, anticoagulants, anabolic steroids and supplements at least 4-6 weeks to prevent complicating medical factors prior to surgery. Avoid taking aspirin, anti-inflammatory drugs and herbal supplements as they can increase bleeding.

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