Plastic Surgery Expert Opines on Botched Face lift

I have a head to toe plastic surgery practice, performing between 1 and 4 face, neck, or brow lifts per month, as well as several resurfacing procedures with laser or chemical peels per week. Skin necrosis, or loss, as well as wide scarring, prolonged redness, hematomas, and facial asymmetry are common complications of these procedures. Many techniques are available to prevent these, such as keeping blood pressure under tight control and blood sugar under good control before surgery, pretreating with Retin A, antibiotics, and Valtrex prior to a peel, avoiding blood thinners, avoiding excessive skin resection and tension on the scars, and good surgical technique. The physician should have been able to identify the infection at the surgical site, and should have prescribed antibiotics as appropriate.