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do you have to be completely knocked out for surgery?

September 6 2007 at 6:11 AM
Black Sheep  (no login)

Anesthesia scares me...that's honestly the one thing stopping me from breast implants. Do you have to be completely knocked out for surgery? I mean, women have c sections and they are not "sleeping", they are awake...can you do the same for implants? Or do you have to be 100% knocked out?

 
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Kate
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September 7 2007, 8:58 AM 

General anaesthetic is the norm for breast implants. Most surgeons will use general anaesthetic during the surgery, but some surgeons will use a sedative and a local anaesthetic. It can depend on how the implants are being inserted.

 
 
Black Sheep
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September 18 2007, 8:47 PM 

No, you don't. I know several people that were wide awake, and others that only had twilight sedation.

 
 
Priya
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September 19 2007, 10:49 AM 

Wide awake? Whilst breast implants were being put in? How awful if this is really true.

 
 
Nicky
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November 8 2007, 8:36 AM 

I don't see how someone having breast implants inserted could be left wide awake through the procedure.

 
 
Sharon
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February 19 2008, 7:26 AM 

You could go for something like macrolane if you worried about anasthetic. All they do is numb you up a little bit, just like when you go to the dentist and have a filling. Macrolane is very expensive though.

 
 
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