Surgery Preparations & Risks
According to Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgeon Jaime Flores, any type of surgery carries risks.
Prior a surgery the patient should try to be healthy, the specialist recommends. "Exercising regularly that you can withstand anesthesia and stop smoking, because smoking really causes the incisions not to heal. Being a diabetic or a smoker is not a contraindication, but that needs to be controlled."
The procedures can be done by sedation, which is basically the patient has an IV (intravenous) and is given medications. “In all essential parts he sleeps, but he is not intubated on a ventilator. It requires a very very experienced person giving anesthesia," he says.
