It doesn´t exist a most proper season to submit to a plastic surgery. The myth created in Brazil saying that "in winter´s best to" serves only for those people who don´t want to leave the beach or the pool in the summer.

Patients that get precosciously exposed to the sun after the surgery are subject to scars´s darkening and to the appearance of spots in the skin. Those are difficult problems to treat and can compromise the result.

As any other medical act, a plastic surgery has its risks concerning to the patient´s health and physical integrity. To minimize those risks, the patient must be submitted to a detailed interrogatory by its doctor about its health and antecedents.
The needed complementary exams are requested and special attention must be given to the clinic or hospital selection.

There is no need of preventively changing an implant, be it of breasts, gluteals or calves. Like any other thing, the silicon implant suffers a wasting process through time, but this is already predicted by the most modern prothesis´s manufacturers.

What can be done is a periodic accompaniment by complementary exams.

It depends on the needs of the surgical procedure and on the patient´s profile. Surgeries under local anesthesia or blockings in patients with good health can be comfortably done in a well prepared clinic.

Patients with any important previous illness antecedents, hypertensives, cardiopathics or those who are going to do associeted procedures must always be lodged at hospitals.

Anesthesia is a medical act and obviously there is a risk that accompanies it. A well prepared patient, from the clinical point of view, in the hands of a good professional in a good clinic or hospital diminishes this risk to a very small possibility.

The technics and the anesthetic drugs have evolved a lot in the past few years, increasing the anesthesia´s security in an extraordinary way.

Old scars can be an indication of someone´s cicatrization manner. Independently from all the surgeon´s technic cares, some people cicatrizes better than others.

Cheloids and hypertrophic scars are much more common in persons with oriental, black and Jewish ancestry, however this is not an exclusivity of these racial groups.

Indications from other doctors and friends are the most usual way to find the professional. The empathy already created in the first consultation is very important. The patient must identify and establish a relation of confidence with the doctor.

Call to the Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society or access its website at www.cirurgiaplastica.org.br to ask if your chosen preofessional has its specialist title.This title does not guarantee the professional talent but it means the doctor has the proper formation.

Every patient that looks for an aesthetic procedure should be aiming am improvement in its life quality, a higher harmonization between his body and soul. Plastic surgeries are unable to resolve personal and particularly affective problems.

A true conversation with your doctor about the possibilities and limitations specifically in your case is very important.

Every medical procedure is an act that involves a certain dose of risk, even over the results of an aesthetic surgery. A well chosen professional, the patient´s good health, a good indication and the execution of the appropriate technique for each case, allied to the patient´s cares in agreement to the medical recommendations are elements that tends to minimize the risk of a bad result.

However there is a lot of other variables related to the constitution aspects of the patient, which many times are not predictable or controllable as, for example, the cicatrization characteristics.

It differs according to each procedure. For example, a patient submitted to a medium level liposuction is normally liberated for light execises after the fourth day. However, someone who did a conventional abdome plastic surgery will need a prior rest of three or four weeks.

Surgical glues are materials destinated to promote de tissues´s adhesion replacing stitches in some situations. There is one for external use, on the skin, and another used for internal tissues, based on fibrin.

Rejuvenescence by non-surgical resources as peelings, facial implants and Botox applications are reality, mainly for patients between 30 and 40 years.

After this age the marks of growing old are bigger and the use of these methods only has very limited results.

Massotherapic applications and products with enzymes have no cientific foundation and are absolutely innocuous. Normally those therapies are indicated joined to a feed regimen, and this is the one who causes any effects.

It depends on the chosen surgery. Generally, after three weeks the patient can already see the changes, when most of the swelling has gone. However, a liposuction treatment needs up to six months to reach its definitive result, and an operated nose will reach its best aspect after one year.

No problem. The implant is placed behind the gland and does not interfere with its functional capabilities.

As the prothesis is placed behind the mamaml gland, it does not interfere in the self-exam of the breast, even when it is done by the gynecologist.. The radiologists, which analyzes the preventive mammography results, are already accostumed to the implant´s presence, by the large number of women that owns implants and they have no difficulty in the diagnosis.