When to avoid plastic surgery
- You do not have time to recover. Typically, we recommend three months between surgery and a special or social event as a safety net. Complications are not common; however, they do occasionally happen, and delayed healing cannot be 100% avoided. This timeline is necessary in order to allow most of the swelling to go away and the results and tissues to appear natural, especially if the surgery is in a visible area.
- You want a perfect result because you will only be satisfied with perfection, and you know you will not be happy otherwise.
- You want perfect symmetry.
- You are taking blood thinners for medical conditions or immunosuppressants.
- You are a smoker.
- You are overweight or obese. Typically, we recommend not having surgery if your Body Mass Index is above 32-34, with the exception of some liposuction procedures . Use this link to calculate your BMI.
- You are doing it for someone else or fitting an ideal image. Plastic surgery is a personal decision, and you should do it for yourself, not to fulfill someone else’s desires or to try to fit any sort of ideal image.
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