Specific Post Operative Instructions – Cheek Augmentation

Specific Post Operative Instructions – Cheek Augmentation

• Position: Keeping her head above the level of your heart as much as possible will help you minimize the swelling and thus the discomfort.  You may shower the morning after surgery.

• Sutures: Sutures inside the mouth will dissolve in about two weeks.  You may feel them with your tongue, but it is better to leave them alone.

• Eyes: Crushed ice in a “baggie” intermittently has tolerated to the jaw areas.

Specific as you feel information

• Numbness and swelling: Numbness and some swelling will occur.  You will not look as strange to other people as you thank you due.

• Discomfort: He may experience discomfort a few bumped her cheeks rely on your stomach.  This too, will resolve.

• Healing a sensory nerves: Tingling sensations indicate that the superficial nerves are coming back to life.

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