What about flying before or after my surgery?

For daycase facial and breast surgery the general risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis is very low and a tailored approach taking into account your medicines, personal and family history of any clot episodes will be carefully evaluated.

In general we do not recommend long haul (over 4 hours continuous flying) 2 weeks prior to surgery and for 4 weeks after surgery. If you are having abdominal (tummy), thigh, or combination surgery over 5 hours of anaesthetic, we will advise a larger time gap before and after surgery.

It is critical you highlight any planned travel involving sitting for a long period of time (air, train, car) to your surgeon.