Plastic Surgery – After-Care

At Pacific Plastic Surgery in Santa Barbara, we ensure that our patients receive the very best in post-operative care. Patients who undergo breast augmentation, face lift, or other procedures are given the latest pain-management aids as well as homeopathic remedies for bruising and swelling.

As far as aftercare is concerned with my patients, it depends on the procedure but almost everyone I give Arnica and Bromelain to. These are homeopathic and enzyme remedies that really do help with bruising and swelling postoperatively. With breast augmentation, every single patient gets a pain pump postoperatively which lasts about two and a half to three days and it really minimizes the pain. Sometimes we will use other modalities such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy to accelerate healing for face lifting perhaps or a flap procedure or breast reduction. We kind of incorporate a lot of these modalities into the aftercare that we give to our patients.