Keeping up With Advances in Cosmetic Surgery

Advances in techniques and technology surrounding procedures in cosmetic surgery continue to ensure these elective operative procedures are safer than ever. By reducing downtime, eliminating unsafe risks or side effects, and maximizing beautiful results, surgeons across the country are helping to make this one of the most popular and proficient fields of medicine today. Whether you are considering breast augmentation or rhinoplasty and whether your reasons are purely aesthetic or aiming to recover function after trauma, plastic surgery helps people look and feel better.

A recent advance in cosmetic surgery now ensures many patients have shorter recovery periods and suffer from fewer post-operative complications. A new surgical adhesive has been designed to help surgeons close incisions without drains, but still able to reduce fluid accumulation or inflammation. One of the most common sights after surgery is the position of tubes and drains from incision sites during the recovery period. These drains are often uncomfortable or downright wieldy and can be a pain to monitor or remove. However, placement of the drain is necessary to ensure that the tissue under the skin can remove inflammatory products and fluid while healing. This is important because build-up of inflammatory products or fluid underneath the skin can lead to longer healing times, poor wound healing, increased scar formation, or even localized infection and sepsis. These drains allow surgeons to safely and completely close incision sites while ensuring that fluid build-up will be quickly and easily removed.

A new surgical adhesive product has been developed for cosmetic surgery that does double duty while reducing side effects and complications. The surgical adhesive takes the place of sutures and keeps tissues together so that the site is closed, protected and able to heal. At the same time, this close seal of the wound actually prevents fluid accumulation and speeds healing. Five times stronger than any commercially available bonding agent, this skin adhesive will hold the edges of an incision perfectly together and simply absorb back into the skin as the incision heals. No sutures to remove and no drains to worry about.

This technology is especially suited for cosmetic surgery where aesthetics of the incisions are of utmost importance to patients trying to look their best. Whether you have recently had breast augmentation or liposuction, you want to ensure that scarring is minimal and there are few, if any, telltale signs left behind that you have had any work done. This type of surgical adhesive helps you get back to work faster and will minimize inflammation which, in turn, minimizes overall scarring and speeds healing.