Patient/client information

It is of great importance that you feel confident and relaxed. You are very welcome to call or mail us to book a time suitable for you.

The consultation

When you are having your consultation, you fill in a health questionnaire together with our surgeon. Tell the surgeon about your wishes. Prepare for the meeting with the surgeon by writing down your questions you may have regarding your operation.

Together with you, the surgeon will thereby discuss all necessary details regarding your operation and answer your questions so that you will be totally informed about what the surgeon will do. You may call us at any time if something is unclear and you have additional questions. We are very keen that you feel safe and secure with the information you have gotten.

To evaluate your individual profile, we will compile the information about your present and earlier health condition, medications, and so forth. Things of specific importance are:

  • High blood pressure increases the risk if your treatment requires anaesthesia.

  • Smoking and other use of nicotine (plaster, chewing gum) is totally forbidden as this will reduce the blood flow in your upper skin, which will cause trouble to healing of your operation wounds and increase the risk of infection.

  • Overweight is always giving a higher risk with all operations. If your weight exceeds 20 % of your ideal weight according to BMI (see table) you should consider a weight reduction before the operation.

    • After the decision has been taken about your treatment you will have written information with directions and instructions which are adjusted for your specific operation.

    Routines

    To have a successful operation, it is of great importance that the routines are clearly documented and understood. In a short summary:

    Before the operation

    Evaluation and tests are performed according to known recommendations.The patient may not be given anaesthetic without the drawing of the area of operation done first. Microsurgical operations demand specific ordinations.

    Patients who are participating as part of research projects have to complete the required forms in detail.

    At your first visit you have to complete in a health declaration which you will discuss with your surgeon.Your anaesthetic doctor, who you will also meet on your operation day, will call you prior to your surgery. All of us at the clinic will keep in contact with you all the time.

    On the day of the operation

    Welcome to the clinic.

    You will have been fasting as of the evening before, and have followed the directions which have been given to you in your papers before the operation. The plastic surgeon will take photographs of the area of operation; all these pictures are of course confidential. Finally your operation area will be drawn on your body and carefully planned. This will be done while you are standing or sitting.

    After this, one of our nurses will take you to your room and help you with all other preparations before your operation. Your anaesthetic doctor will inform you about how the anaesthetics will be given and how you will feel after the operation.

    After the operation

    Some patients can feel a little uneasy or in pain after an operation, this is however, very individual. Our goal is of course that you will feel as good as possible the day and nights after the operation. For this reason you should use the pain medicine that you have received as prescribed by your doctor. The area of the operation will become swollen, so use cold compresses and try to sleep with the operated area elevated the following nights after your surgery. Some patients feel emotionally down the day after the operation. This is quite normal that the body reacts in this way. Good hygiene is of the outmost importance to decrease the risk of infection. Normally you can shower the day after an operation. Do not remove the surgical tape closest to the wound. Only when the tape falls off by itself should you change it. Carefully follow the directions you have gotten from your doctor. Call us if there is something you are unsure about: We are here for you.

    The first follow up will be in the clinic one to two weeks after the operation. It is important to remember that it takes six months to one year to see the final result.

    Contact with you, the patient, is very important to us after the operation. We are very keen to keep in contact until you have healed totally. We are always available if something has to be specifically followed up with extra care.

     

     

    Shama Method™ Symposium

    We have contributed to the following medical seminars and congresses

    1997, Lissabon,

    IPRAS (International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery)

    2006, Stockholm

    ISAPS (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery)

    2006, Stockholm

    Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet.

    2007, Berlin

    IPRAS The 14th International Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.