You arrive at the facility approximately an hour prior to your scheduled time of surgery.  The skilled nursing staff greets you and takes you to a private room in the preoperative area where you change and complete the admission process.  You then meet your anesthesiologist who reviews your history with you and explains the procedure of going to sleep and waking up in the most comfortable and safe way possible.  I arrive shortly thereafter to mark you for your surgery and answer any last minute questions that you might have.  You receive a single dose of intravenous antibiotics as prophylaxis against infection and are then taken into the operating room where you comfortably drift off to sleep and wake up two hours later with your newly contoured breasts.  After a short time in the recovery room you are taken back to the private room where you began before surgery.  Your nurse then reviews the postoperative instructions that we provided you with and gets you ready for discharge usually within two hours of leaving the operating room.  You can expect a call from me that evening to make sure that you are doing well.  Remember, my phone number is provided to you and is on 24/7 for my patients.