5 Reasons to Combine Facial Plastic Surgeries

You’ve decid­ed to get plas­tic surgery on your face and you have sev­er­al pro­ce­dures on your to-do list. But with a full-time job, a packed social cal­en­dar, and a fam­i­ly to take care of, your sched­ule is a bit tight. 

For­tu­nate­ly, there’s a great way to get the pro­ce­dures done with­out hav­ing to fig­ure out which one to start with or hav­ing to sac­ri­fice too much of your dai­ly life: com­bin­ing surgeries.

Get­ting more than one facial surgery done at the same time has become increas­ing­ly popular.

If you have mul­ti­ple pro­ce­dures on your list, com­bin­ing them might be a great option. Here are five rea­sons why peo­ple are lov­ing the mul­ti­ple facial surgery combo:

1. It Is High­ly Customizable.

One of the best parts about com­bin­ing surg­eries is that you can pick and choose to get a per­fect­ly tai­lored combination. 

Here are some com­mon procedures:

• A facelift improves vis­i­ble signs of aging on the face and neck and makes you look younger. It involves remov­ing excess fat, tight­en­ing facial mus­cles, and smooth­ing wrinkles.
• A browlift (also called a fore­head lift) helps cor­rect a fur­rowed brow or a brow that looks heavy. It can help lift your eye­brows into a more nat­ur­al posi­tion and smooth wrin­kles across your fore­head and between your eyes. 
• Ble­pharo­plas­ty removes excess skin from your eye­lid. It can be done on your upper lids to keep them from droop­ing or your low­er lids to make them less puffy. You can have them both done at the same time. 
• A neck lift tight­ens your jaw­line and neck. It removes extra skin and fat from around your jaw­line to make it more defined and look youthful. 
• Nose reshap­ing (com­mon­ly called a nose job) alters the appear­ance of your nose by chang­ing the size, shape, or pro­por­tions. While it’s often done for cos­met­ic pur­pos­es, it can also be per­formed for med­ical rea­sons. For exam­ple, a nose job can help treat breath­ing prob­lems or cor­rect dam­age from a nose injury.
• Chin aug­men­ta­tion reshapes or enhances the appear­ance of your chin. It can be done by reshap­ing or mov­ing bones in your jaw or it may involve an implant.

Also read: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About A Mini Facelift

2. It Can Be a Major Time-Saver.

Rather than hav­ing to go sev­er­al dif­fer­ent days for surg­eries (and then hav­ing to sched­ule mul­ti­ple days of fol­low-up care), you can get every­thing out of the way in a sin­gle appoint­ment. That means few­er days that you need to take off from work or week­ends that you need to devote to surgery.

When it comes to recov­ery time, there’s a bit of a trade-off. Hav­ing sev­er­al surg­eries done at one time increas­es the num­ber of surgery sites and can extend how long it takes your body to recov­er and may make recov­ery a lit­tle more intense. Heal­ing after a few surg­eries can take longer than heal­ing from just one. How­ev­er, since you only have one recov­ery peri­od, the num­ber of days you spend recov­er­ing is low­er in the long run.

3. It Can Also Be a Money-Saver.

Since facial surg­eries aren’t com­mon­ly cov­ered by insur­ance, you usu­al­ly have to pay for them com­plete­ly out of pock­et. That means that, if you com­bine pro­ce­dures, you might have to loosen those purse strings at the beginning. 

But if you’re will­ing to pay more up front, com­bin­ing surg­eries could save you mon­ey over­all. Some of the major costs are facil­i­ty fees and anes­the­sia (the med­ica­tion used to put you to sleep or numb you so that you don’t feel the pro­ce­dure). By get­ting mul­ti­ple pro­ce­dures done at once, you won’t have to keep pay­ing the steep price of using the surgery facil­i­ty and receiv­ing anesthesia.

4. Com­bin­ing Pro­ce­dures Is Typ­i­cal­ly Safe.

Com­bin­ing pro­ce­dures might even reduce cer­tain risks – espe­cial­ly when it comes to anesthesia. 

While anes­the­sia is usu­al­ly safe, it does come with risks. Being under gen­er­al anes­the­sia, where you are uncon­scious dur­ing the surgery, puts you at risk for rare but seri­ous com­pli­ca­tions, like nerve dam­age or a col­lapsed lung. When you com­bine surg­eries, you only have to go under once. That’s few­er times you’re putting your­self at risk.

But there’s a slight catch. If you’re hav­ing more than one surgery, you’re going to be under anes­the­sia for a longer time – and the longer you’re under, the high­er the risk for complications. 

Talk to your provider so you can weigh the risks and ben­e­fits and deter­mine which option is safer for you. 

Ready to sched­ule your plas­tic surgery – or maybe a few? Request a con­sul­ta­tion with a Duly Aes­thet­ics provider.

5. You Might Be Hap­pi­er With the Results.

If you have a few areas on your face that you’re hop­ing to change, get­ting pro­ce­dures done one at a time might make it feel like you’re not mak­ing much of a dif­fer­ence. But if you do a few pro­ce­dures togeth­er, the results can feel a lot more trans­for­ma­tive. You can get a whole pic­ture, rather than just see­ing lit­tle fix­es here and there.

Why Stop at the Face?

Facial surg­eries aren’t the only plas­tic surg­eries that can be com­bined. Par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar is the ​“mom­my makeover,” which aims to reverse some of the effects of child­bear­ing on a woman’s appear­ance. This com­bines pro­ce­dures to address con­cerns like sag­ging breasts, excess skin on the abdomen, or stretched-out nipples.

Also read: The Trans­for­ma­tive Jour­ney of a Mom­my Makeover

There is also the ​“dad­dy do-over,” which is the male equiv­a­lent of the mom­my makeover. The dad­dy do-over com­bines pro­ce­dures like tum­my tucks, chest con­tour­ing, and gyneco­mas­tia (male breast reduction). 

Your provider may or may not rec­om­mend com­bin­ing these with facial surg­eries – it depends on your needs and what’s safest for you. 

And that goes for com­bin­ing any type of surgery. Whether you want to get mul­ti­ple pro­ce­dures done on just your face or on your whole body, your provider will help you decide on the option that gets you the results you’re look­ing for in the safest way possible.