When it is removed, the patient may return to work covering some eyelid bruising with makeup or glasses. Light exercise is allowed for the second week and normal exercise and social functioning resumes by the third week. Contact sports are avoided for six weeks. Tissue is either advanced to plump up the lip or removed to make it smaller. The incisions are within the mouth and the sutures dissolve so they need not be removed.
Most patients return to work within a week.
Week chins and flat cheek bones may be improved by intraoral insertion of solid prostheses, generally solid silicone implants. The sutures dissolve and need not be removed and all incisions are within the mouth and therefore invisible. The procedures are generally carried out on an ambulatory basis under local anaesthesia if performed alone. Sutures are placed behind the ear and are removed by the 10th. Little bruising persists after the second week.