Bandages
You will have some pieces of tape covering your cheeks when you leave the operating room.

Amount of pain
Low to medium. Your physician will advice you to take analgesics every 6 or 8 hours; this will bring great relief to you.

Removal of the stitches
The intraoral and transconjunctival sutures will dissolve, so there will be no need to remove the stitches. The stitches on the eyelids will be removed 3 days after the surgery.

Bruises and swelling
The swelling may last one or two weeks. Bruises are very infrequent. Cold compresses are very useful during the first days. In one or two weeks more, your cheeks will have a completely normal appearance, but the definite results will be fully appreciated after two months.

Scars
If the incisions were made inside the mouth or eyelids, the resulting scars will be completely invisible. The preauricular scars are very well disguised, since the tissue in that area heals very well.

Recovery
If the implant was inserted through an intraoral incision it will be very important for you to take care of the hygiene of the wounds until they heal to avoid the proliferation of bacteria inside the mouth. Do not eat any kind of meat unless it is very well cooked, and do not take any kind of dairy foods. If you eat raw vegetables, wash them thoroughly.

Wash your mouth with an antiseptic mouthwash. During the first days you will have to sleep with your head elevated so that the healing process will be free of complications.

If you wish to apply make-up, you may be able to do it a day after the surgery. During the first weeks, the patients tend to suffer from depression. As with other facial surgeries, you may find it difficult to come to terms with your new look and you may even feel that you made a terrible mistake in deciding to have a surgery. But you shouldn't worry. Most of the people who today are happy and satisfied with the results of a surgery have also gone through that phase.

Possible risks and complications
It is very unlikely for a cheek implant surgery to present any complications when performed by a qualified surgeon. However, every surgical procedure, regardless of its triviality, has some risks and we should always think of them as a possibility.

• Asymmetry. Even though the surgeon marks very carefully the areas he is going to treat, there may be asymmetries.
• Adverse reactions to anesthesia.
• Infections, although they are very unusual if you take the right antibiotics.
• Ectropion: the lower eyelid is turned outwards, revealing the underlying tissue. This may be temporal or permanent. If it is permanent, then it must be corrected by means of an eyelid surgery.
• Displacement of the implant.

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