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Question: Smokers seeking plastic surgery should kick the habit before going under
the knife, plastic surgeons advise.
Smoking increases the risk of post-surgical complications, particularly
with major procedures such as breast reconstruction and facelifts. It
also lowers the odds that patients undergoing elective surgery will be
happy with the cosmetic results, researchers report in the September
issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
What's your opinions?
Answer: Smoking, with its ill effects on the circulatory system and wound
healing, has long been known to hinder patients' recovery from an array
of surgical procedures.
"Nicotine, carbon monoxide, and many other toxic tobacco by-products
clearly interfere with the dynamics of normal wound repair,'' write Drs.
Jeffrey K. Krueger and Rod J. Rohrich of the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
In the field of plastic surgery, the researchers note, operations with
the highest risk of smoking-related complications include breast
procedures, facelifts and abdominoplasty (''tummy tucks''). Such
procedures, they explain, involve injury to large flaps of skin, and
smoking may interfere with healing.
One recent study of women undergoing breast reconstruction after
mastectomy showed that smokers had higher rates of necrosis, or tissue
death, in skin flaps at the surgical site.
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