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Can a patient continue to smoke if he is scheduled for phalloplasty surgery?

April 26, 2017Continue patient phalloplasty scheduled smoke surgery

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Can a patient continue to smoke if he is scheduled for phalloplasty surgery?

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Not at all. Smoking has a tremendous effect on the healing process and must be discontinued from at least two months prior to surgery to two months after surgery. Phalloplasty surgery is not performed on patients who smoke during the two months prior to surgery.