Hello I'm Dr. Yang Seong-hyuk, the director of Hugo Plastic Surgery TV, who cares about people first
(Scary side effects after face lifts) Continuing from the last video
Let's continue with the side effects of face lifts which can be quite scary
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In face lifts, if there's one thing that surgeons pay the most attention to
Is paralysis
Paralysis can occur for three reasons
(#1 Local anesthesia) The first is, we use local anesthesia for surgery
The effects of local anesthesia can also cause a temporary decrease in motor ability
This phenomenon is common immediately after surgery
Usually, after a day or so, the movement gradually returns
(You don't have to worry!!) It usually recovers completely in a few days
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The second reason is during the pulling process the motor nerve could have been pulled together as well
In this case, the swelling goes down for about a month and the paralysis goes away
In most cases, people recover completely in about three to six months
In order to accelerate this recovery process
Injection therapy or electric current therapy may be performed
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The third reason is that the motor nerve is damaged or ripped during the surgery
If your nerves are damaged, of course it's scary
And you might wonder, "How do I recover?"
Fortunately, the athletic ability that makes you make facial expressions
It's not like the nerves match each one of the facial muscles
Because nerve fibers stretch out and coordinate muscle movements in the form of neural networks
So for example, even if one nerve is damaged
The other nerve can send enough signals to that muscle
However, this recovery process
When the nerve that was originally functioning breaks, until the other nerve functions
It usually takes 3 to 6 months or maybe a year
But the function will gradually recover
Even after sufficient time has passed
Very rarely, the paralysis could continue
In that case, you could consider doing something like a neurotransplant
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It's important to understand the general process of scar recovery
The discomfort of each period that everyone experiences
We need to recognize that it's a normal recovery process
Scars begins to form after about 3 weeks in the recovery process
From this point on, there's a feeling of a bit tight and there are many cases where people complain of discomfort
It often causes redness, itching, tingling, and swelling
It gets worse and worse by about three months
But after hitting the peak at about the third month
It starts to loosen up again
And after 6 months, as I said before
The tightening, swelling, itchy, and tingly sensations
will go away, so don't worry too much
Usually, after surgery, people ask, "Does it leave a lot of scars?"
In general, the patients
Don't care about the scars that remain clean on the wound
Usually, the scar looks a little higher
Looks red, or painful
Or looks a little wider than the incision line
Or if it looks like they got burned
I think people are worried about them
But if you're worried about scarring after surgery
After removing the stitches, apply scar ointment for 6 months
Or by taping, you can take care of the scar
And if you still see a ugly scar after six months
Through injection therapy or laser therapy
I think it'd be good to know that many things can be improved
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After face lifts, there's also an incision in the inner hair
Because of that, there might be people who are worried about hair loss
Usually for the hair loss right after the surgery
It's good to just wait until after 3 months
If the hair roots are not damaged during surgery
It takes about three months for new baby hairs to grow from the hair roots
When you say, "I keep losing hair even after that,"
Stem cells or injections can help improve hair loss
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Lastly, pixie ears
Pixie ears is a rare ear deformation that can occur after face lifts
To fix them
There's a surgery that cuts the area around the earlobe
But then, not only around the earlobe
It will cause scarring on the bottom as well
If you want to correct this more clearly
You need to go under a revision surgery and lift a lot more of the SMAS layer
and also the skin which will have better result
in correcting the pixie ears
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I've explained a lot
But still, if you have any more questions about face lifts, please leave a comment
I'll answer them myself
It was Dr. Yang Seong-hyuk, a plastic surgeon
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