A Day in the Life of a Plastic Surgeon...

He is anxious having broken his nose three years earlier and has been having difficulty breathing through his nose.

He wants to straighten the bump and improve the bulbous tip.

We discuss the operative plan and I answer his concerns.

Once he is asleep, I inject a local anaesthetic into his nose and have a good look inside - his septum is severely distorted following his injury, so need to clear this to ensure he will breathe freely.

The operation goes well, his bridge is nice and straight and tip looks more proportioned. I apply Micropore tape and a plaster cast to keep everything stable during the healing. He will go home later today and return in one week to unveil his new nose.

Write up my operation notes before seeing our next patient for breast augmentation. She is very anxious – does not want to be too big or look ‘fake’, so she has chosen a very natural C cup size and teardrop shape, which I reassure her will fit her frame well and give a very natural result.

The surgery takes about 45 minutes and she is in recovery, sitting up 10 minutes later. After writing up her notes, I pop in to see her before the next patient. She is a little teary with delight that it’s all over and she looks perfectly sized.

Onto the next patient who is for a mini-tummy tuck. I am doing fewer mini-tummy tucks now as our skin tightening radiofrequency device – EndyMed 3DEEP - is so good at tightening the tummy skin that fewer patients need to have surgery.

This patient is very specific that I keep the scar into her bikini line. She is happy with the plans and after seeing my nurse and anaesthetist is off to sleep quickly.

I remove the excess skin and fat from below her belly button and perform some liposuction above and around her side to improve her shape.

The operation takes 60 minutes, and I use a waterproof dressing and a surgical garment.

She will get out of bed after about two hours and will be able to go home after four hours if all is well.

All of this has happened before lunch!

Have a quick chicken salad for lunch before my next patient, who is having fat grafting to enhance her buttocks. I will need to harvest a large volume of fat from her tummy, sides, and back as we plan to get about 500cc of fat into each buttock.

This is a long procedure, taking about three hours, but all goes well.

I use the PureGraft system to prepare the fat, which gives very good quality fat for grafting.

Her shape looks great at the end and I put her into a support garment before she is moved to the recovery. She will be up and about after four hours, and on her way home soon after that.

It’s been a good day and I have managed to reply to all the email queries from patients’ in-between operations. My nurse has seen five post-operative patients during the day.

Normal removal of sutures and dressings, and we spend a few minutes reviewing these patients to ensure that their recovery is going well. I check on all the patients before heading over to the clinic.

Have to sign a few letters and call a patient to discuss her mammogram results before I can get home to see my kids.

A day in the life of a London-based plastic surgeon is certainly varied!

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Thanks to the author of this blog Mr Christopher Inglefield.

Mr Inglefield and his London Bridge Plastic Surgery team are committed to offering the most up-to-date treatments and procedures and the highest standard of care in a stress-free and caring environment.

He is regularly invited to present lectures on his research and activities at national and international conferences.

Mr Inglefield has also written several papers and contributed to many specialist books and journals within the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Mr Inglefield has appeared on numerous occasions on television and radio programmes including Radio 5 Live, NBC and Granada.

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