As with any surgery, full recovery from surgical vaginal rejuvenation takes time. “All wound healing — whether you fall off your bicycle and skin your knee or get shot in the belly and need trauma surgery — takes three months,” Romanzi said. “So if you’re going to have a surgical procedure where cutting and sewing is involved, including in the vagina, it will likely be three months to full recovery and resuming sexual activity.” The two most common complications of vaginal surgeries are infection and bleeding. Bleeding can be particularly dangerous — Romanzi said blood flow to the labia is so intense that a patient can hemorrhage within hours of surgery. “You just cannot take enough precaution around the bleeding aspect.” Other risks include scarring, disfigurement and not getting the cosmetic results you want from the surgery.