COSMETIC SURGERY AND HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY
From Beverly Hills to New York City, more and more cosmetic surgeons are adding Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to their protocol, routinely treating their patients before and after cosmetic surgery.
HBOT sessions prior to surgery will eliminate the reperfusion phenomenon, reducing the chance of scar tissue forming. It also reduces inflammation and swelling. Hypoxia in normally perfused tissue can unexpectedly occur post-surgically due to an inflammatory response and edema. HBOT corrects hypoxia and dramatically reduces inflammation and swelling.
Important effects of post-surgical hyperbaric oxygen for your patients would be the stimulation of leukocyte microbial killing, the enhancement of fibroblast replication, and increased collagen formation and neovascularization of ischemic tissue.
Hyperbaric oxygen is a safe way to alter the inflammatory process to help wound healing. It cuts down pain and swelling, inflammation in tissues, and it has an antibacterial effect. Patients who had this therapy in conjunction with their cosmetic surgery seem to have a shorter recuperation period. Scars have also been shown to heal better with HBOT. The bruising goes away faster, swelling decreases faster, and the patients actually feel better overall.
HBOT is also known to be exceedingly effective for laser peels. After a laser peel, lingering redness is a problem for many patients. The chamber gets rid of the red more quickly. For liposuction, the chamber helps the swelling decrease much faster, which results in less post-operative discomfort.
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