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Smoking and Plastic Surgery


Stop taking a puff and take the plunge: smokers addiction

Doctors reserve the right to refuse surgery, if the procedure places the patient in any type of jeopardy. Medical Practitioners have only our best interests in mind. Considering plastic surgery and a smoker?  Smoker patients
within any surgery have the possibility for more complications during and after any type of surgery. Plastic surgery  can  restore the damage  produced by smoking.

Caroline Payne a researcher at the University of Birmingham in England, presented data to the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, which showed that 'Smoking has an adverse effect on surgical outcome. It is necessary to advise and educate patients about the dangers of smoking and operative morbidity'. Stop smoking or die trying....



Smoking has adverse effects on your natural healing capabilities. One of the 3800 toxins in cigarettes, CO decreases oxygenation within the blood and also causes tissue necrosis (tissue breakdown).

Some of the effects of smoking before, after or during any operation can result in: poor or prolonged healing, higher risk of infections, prolonged or worsened bruising, skin loss, keloid scarring, higher risk of pulmonary problems, tissue necrosis and a higher risk for blood clots.

Anaesthesiologists have to keep you alive during the operation; smoking causes an elevated heart rate, decreases the proper functioning of the lungs, blood vessels and blood pressure. Here we can see that operating on a smoker can increase so many possibilities for failure.
Research shows that smokers are twelve times higher to develop healing complications.
 
Come on!

 Doctors ask only the bare minimum from smoker patients, that at least two weeks before and after surgery they should completely stop smoking or the use of nicotine products. Also smoker patients should realise that if they smoke before or during the post operative healing process, that healing will be prolonged, therefore it is advised to completely quit.


Written by:  Melissa Scheepers
Dated:  10 July 2008


 
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