Jasin Facial Rejuvenation Institute in Tampa Florida

Anyone who undergoes plastic surgery, or any other surgery for that matter, must have some sort of anesthesia, which allows you to experience varying degrees of consciousness and not feel any pain. There are four basic types of anesthesia including:

• General anesthesia
• Regional anesthesia
• Local anesthesia
• Sedation

Most plastic surgery is done with local anesthesia. A drug such as Lidocaine (similar to Novocain) is injected under the skin to numb tissues, and this medicine impairs nerve function. Feeling disappears very quickly, but you may still feel pressure and movement of tissues as these sensations are harder to block.

Some plastic surgery is done with local anesthesia with sedation. Sedation is simply the alteration of your sense. Although you are awake, you may be given medications by mouth or in a vein that will lessen your ability to perceive what is happening to you. The local anesthesia is injected after the sedation begins. Depending on the type of sedation, many of our patients do not remember the operation at all. Sedation takes some time to wear off, and this is why we will observe you carefully after your surgery. On the day of your procedure, you should not plan any other activities and should arrange for some to pick you up when you are finished. It is best that you not be alone during your recovery.

More complicated operations are usually done with general anesthesia where you are actually asleep during the surgery. The anesthesiologist will mix several medications that will be given to you through an intravenous line and others that you breath in through a mask over your nose and mouth. A tube brings air through your mouth, back behind your throat and into your trachea. With general anesthesia, your body takes some time to recover. In fact, some general anesthetic medications may take several days for all of the effects to wear off. The back of your throat may be sore from the tube that was protecting your airway. This soreness subsides in a day or two. Of course, you must have someone drive you home following any procedure with general anesthesia.

There are several different monitoring devices that will be utilized during your procedure to ensure your reaction to the drugs is within normal limits.

If you would like to learn more about the many plastic surgery procedures available to you in Tampa, St. Pete, Lakeland or Sarasota, Florida, please contact the Jasin Facial Rejuvenation Institute today to schedule your initial complimentary consultation.