The 'Rapid Recovery' method used at Ohio Breast Augmentation
The 'Rapid Recovery' method refers to the use of several techniques during surgery in order to help the patient recover as quickly as possible from her procedure, and to help her return to her pre-op activities as early as possible. Dr Dowden has been using the techniques of Rapid Recovery for many years, and the results have been most gratifying for patients. The maneuvers involved are basically avoiding or minimizing steps or actions that increase pain or slow down recovery. Such maneuvers include avoiding tension on the incisions, controlling any bleeding in the pockets around the implants, avoiding trauma to the ribs behind the breast, and minimizing any trauma to the breasts. Just as has been seen with advances in surgery for most areas of the body, the use of endoscopic techniques (also called minimally invasive surgery) have greatly reduced recovery time, healing time and convalescence, and our endoscopic breast augmentation techniques have done the same. The Rapid Recovery method has been popularized as the "out-to-dinner breast augment" which refers to the fact that after surgery at say 8:00 am, most patients feel well enough to go out to dinner 10 or 12 hours later, that evening. Most of Dr Dowden's augmentations are not performed until late afternoon, so of course going out to dinner in the early hours of the morning would not be practical, but the principle of minimal pain still applies. Although individual patients vary in their rate of recovery, these steps give each patient the best opportunity for the fastest recovery of which her body is capable.