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Sarasota Surgical Arts
Face Lift Bradenton - Smart Lift Recovery Time
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Oftentimes during my seminars, I get the question, so what can I expect in terms of down time for this procedure? And, you know, very confidently, I could tell people that, just like any surgery, there is 2 to 3 days of some mild swelling. Now, we also use medications to help reduce that. But just the nature of the Smart Lift itself, where it's less surgery and greater results, is the whole caveat that you're going to have a shortened so-called down time. So I think telling people generally 3 to 4, to 5, maybe even 6 days, 3 to 6 days is generally a quick recovery. Now, of course, recovery is sort of one of those loaded questions where, when I think of recovery, I'm thinking of laid up in bed drinking ginger ale. That's not it at all. You know, most of my patients are out and about the very next day. They are washing clothes, they are cleaning, they are cooking for themselves, doing things that they normally do. Walking around. They are not just sitting in a chair all taped up and bandaged up. Those are things that people really like to hear. Now, of course, the first day to 2 days to help reduce the amount of swelling, we need to keep certain bandages and some pressure dressings on your face so that you can recover even quicker. And I feel very confident in telling people 3 to 6 days is very, very reasonable. We're at the point of 6 days, 5 or 6 days, you may, in fact, be at work by that point. Or, in fact, going out for a light jog or going out for a bike ride at 6 days after your Smart Lift. I think that that's very reasonable. I leave a lot of this up to my patient. I think that most people are very intelligent, and I tell them use common sense. If it hurts or you notice something is sort of not right, don't do it . . .