The recovery period after aesthetic surgery is a dynamic process that lasts for months. Although the signs of healing disappear in the first 1.5 months, the changes in the tissue continue for another 4-6 months. For this reason, the end of winter and spring months are the times we aesthetic surgeons prefer for aesthetic operations, especially for aesthetic surgical procedures for the facial area. However, due to the fact that we can easily provide optimum temperature levels in our homes and workplaces under today’s conditions, we can always perform aesthetic surgical procedures in line with the patient’s request.
Apart from this medical reality, we are lucky that our patients apply to us more shockingly, especially in the spring months, with the desire to achieve ideal body beauty before summer. Thus, in these months, a win-win situation emerges for both the plastic surgeon and the patients. Both patients get the body they want until the summer, and we achieve the optimum seasonal conditions necessary for tissue healing.
The aesthetic procedures that we see the highest increase in demand in the spring period are breast augmentation, body shaping (such as regional liposaction, abdominal muscle creation with Hi-Def lipo), and gynaecomastia in male patients, that is, male breast size correction procedures. We also see an increase in the demand for nose and face-neck rejuvenation operations for the facial area, although not as much as the first procedures I mentioned.
Although there is no alternative solution to surgery in breast augmentation and gynaecomastia correction, I recommend diet and sports to every patient who applies with body shaping. No surgery can replace the gains obtained naturally. However, I recommend and apply these surgeries with peace of mind to my patients who cannot find enough time for diet and sports or who cannot achieve the body contours they want despite these. Again, I explain to all my patients who will undergo body contouring surgery, especially my patients who will create abdominal muscle, that they should maintain their current weight status in the postoperative period. If our patient cannot maintain his/her current weight or if he/she is uncomfortable with his/her current weight and wants to change it, I never hesitate to postpone the surgery until he/she reaches the desired weight. Because body contouring surgeries can be affected by postoperative weight changes and our results may change.
