A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that post-surgery pain heightens if the cosmetic surgery patient has been introduced to general anesthesia.
A procedure like face lift surgery often calls for the doctor to employ complex techniques to reconstruct the patient's face. In reconstructive face lift surgery especially there is often a combination of cosmetic surgery procedures executed to get the desired changes.
Cosmetic surgeons administer general anesthesia if this is the case allowing them to conduct the face surgery or face implant operation while the patient is unconscious.
The research conducted on rats discovered that the chemically irritating anesthesia drugs commonly integrated in general anesthesia can cause pain-sensing nerves strong sensitivity and inflammation.
Most patients will shudder at that and tell their face lift surgeon to use local anesthesia for their plastic surgery. However, it would do to remember that the type of anesthesia employed is not up to the patient to decide.
The plastic surgeon in consultation with the anesthesiologist decides upon this step. They generally base their decision on the complexity of the surgery involved and the tolerance of the patient to the chemicals.
At the Plastic Surgery Institute of California we take especial care of this step and evaluate patients accordingly before their face lift procedure. Find additional help at our advanced surgical institute.
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