Face Lift Cosmetic Surgery and Smoking

Be prepared to quit smoking before your face lift cosmetic surgery. Your medical professional will insist on this and some recommend that patients stop smoking at least a month prior to the surgery. The reason why your medical professional considers this a must is because blood flow is reduced to areas of the face when one smokes. The frightening fact is that one in ten smokers will have skin death, or necrosis, at the incision if they continue to smoke prior to the face lift cosmetic procedure. Necrosis makes the edges start to come apart and the wound may turn a violent black and reddish tone. A few stubborn cases may need a skin graft, which is another surgical procedure where a patch of skin is removed from another area of your body and transplanted onto your wound.