Infectious complications in thread lifting

Инфекционные осложнения при нитевом лифтинге

In plastic surgery, doctors are accustomed to working under strict aseptic conditions. However, in recent years, dermatocosmetologists have also carried out invasive procedures such as thread lifting.

Therefore, it is important for doctors to be able to create the safest possible conditions in their office for thread lifting, as this will allow avoiding the most terrible for the doctor – infectious complications.

Especially for the readers of estet-portal.com Georgy Sulamanidze, candidate of medical sciences, plastic surgeon, specialist in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, spoke about the main causes of these complications, as well as about the tactics of their prevention and elimination .

How common are infectious complications in thread lifting

GS: My personal experience and that of my colleagues shows that infectious complications after thread lifting are quite rare. Most doctors may never meet them, but know what to do if they occur – the duty of a threading doctor.

My supervisor, Academician Nikolai Olegovich Milanov, often said: “If you work, then statistics will always get to you.”

Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to deal with infectious complications after thread lifting, they are easier to prevent by proper work, asepsis, etc.

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You need to fight them in time, using the right tactics. Only in this way you can solve the problem without harm to the patient and your reputation.

If you act according to – then everything goes virtually without a trace, and patients can again fight for their beauty together with their doctor.
What leads to infectious complications in thread lifting
G.S.: The most common cause of infectious complications in thread lifting – This is a violation of the rules of asepsis. For plastic surgeons, the observance of asepsis is not new, because we encounter them every day in the operating room, but for dermatocosmetologists, it is better to remind yourself of the rules of asepsis before thread lifting.

The best way out — it is to work with surgical nurses who will easily help you gain this experience. In the future, the hands themselves understand where it is clean, where it is dirty, what can be touched and what cannot.

If you follow the rules of asepsis, then there will be no infectious complications.

Besides, as practice shows, it is quite possible to combine a beautiful office, worked out by a designer, and the ability to follow the rules of asepsis. The main thing is that your workplace is neat and easy to clean.

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How to deal with infectious complications after a thread lift

GS: Fortunately, in 99% of cases we are faced not with the infectious complications themselves, but with the inflammatory process. And already at this stage, if we start antibiotic therapy on time, the problem is solved quite quickly, literally in a week – duration of antibiotic treatment.

It is very rare when inflammation passes into the next stage of the infectious-inflammatory process, when an abscess appears. The only way out in this case — thread removal. Removing it is easy enough because it's easy to find, and it's usually not attached anywhere. And from the second day after the removal of the foreign body in the form of a thread, recovery begins.

Despite the fact that thread lifting – this is not a surgical manipulation, in which there is no skin incision and tissue detachment, we introduce a foreign body under the skin, so we must be as careful as possible.

My default image And most importantly, never hesitate to ask colleagues for help if you suddenly encounter complications.