When can I go back to my regular activities after a lip lift?
You may want a date. A real one comes from your surgeon, and it helps to know what it depends on.
Your surgeon sets the return dates
Your surgeon sets the timeline for your recovery, and it can differ from person to person.
Recovery stage by stage
Recovery is the first stage of the long view. The useful question is what your surgeon expects at each stage and why.
For general descriptions, see the American Society of Plastic Surgeons article on lip lifts and other lip augmentation procedures. The Cleveland Clinic page on lip lift types, surgery, recovery and scars is aimed at patients, and the Cleveland Clinic lip lift surgery page offers another. For a surgeon's published description of one technique, see this paper on the surgical method of a corner mouth lift.
Work, exercise and travel questions
- Ask your surgeon when you can return to work, exercise, social events and travel, and ask why each date is set.
- Ask which symptoms during recovery need a call to the surgeon.
- Ask how scars are cared for in the months after.
What each date depends on
When your surgeon gives you a date for an activity, ask what it depends on.