No. IN my office, sedation is provided by a Board-Certified Anesthesiologist. They will relax you before, during and after your procedure. People describe this sedation as they do sedation for procedures like a colonoscopy. You are relaxed and unaware of what is going on. While you are relaxed, I inject the face with local anesthetic to decrease pain during and after the facelift. The local anesthesia will completely numb your face so that you will not feel the incisions. An anesthesiologist provides sedation medicine through an IV. Patients don’t typically describe pain after this procedure but more swelling.