Patients should expect to have pain, swelling and bruising the first few days.

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The main complications are:

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• Bleeding

• Infection

• Unfavorable healing

• Necrosis or skin loss

• Deformity and asymmetry

• Complications related to anesthesia

• Facial nerve injury

• Accumulation of liquid

• Persistent pain

• Discoloration of the skin

• In more severe cases deep vein thrombosis, respiratory distress, pulmonary thromboembolism and death.