subject: What You Should Discuss With Your Plastic Surgeon [print this page] Surgeries such as breast enhancement, rhinoplasty and facelift are considered as elective surgeries. This is because a person chooses to go through these procedures because they want to improve some aspect of their appearance. In most cases, these elective surgeries or cosmetic surgeries as they are popularly known as, are initiated by the patient and then vetted by a doctor before going ahead with the procedure.
Choice Of Patient
Just because the choice of the surgery belongs to the patient, it does not make this surgery any less risky than non-elective surgeries. A plastic surgeon still has to make sure that you are in sufficiently good shape to go through the surgery. This is one aspect of the surgery. The other aspect is how comfortable and ready does the patient feel about the impending surgery.
There is a huge chasm of difference between wanting something and actually doing something about getting that thing which you want. This happens a lot with plastic surgeries because some people do end up backing out of the surgery at the last minute. This is why it really does pay to sit down and speak to the plastic surgeon. Multiple meetings are important to get to know about the procedure and also the doctor as well as his team of assistants.
Understand Recovery Duration
Most people seem to forget that the most important part of the surgery is not the actual surgery. At this point, surgeries are completely safe and a few meetings with the doctor would have evaded that fear. So, the patient would have no qualms about the surgery by the time the actual surgery event takes place. However, many will simply forget to ask too many questions about the recovery period.
Patients have to get real about the recovery period and all the post-surgery activities and instructions that they have to do to keep what they have gained. A lot of times, the surgery would have been done with the best of care but patients forget to follow proper post-surgery instructions, ruining the perfect nature of the expected end results. Of course nobody wants to blame themselves for what happened and end up blaming the doctor.
This brings to the final suggestion. While it is good that you have discussed about the events that run up to and during the surgery, prepare yourself for the inevitable cool down period that follows every surgery.
