Tired of coming up with post-face-lift excuses for why you were out of circulation for two weeks? (I had a ballooning accident!) Now plastic surgeons are reducing recovery time by draping their patients in heating blankets called Bear Huggers. Some, like Gerald Pitman at Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, who offers the deep plane mini-lift, have even raised the temperature of the entire operating room.
The practice is borrowed from burn surgery, where rooms are routinely kept above 80 degrees. The result, says Pitman, is that recovery time is almost halved to around seven days. But not everyone involved in the operation is so happy: Jokes another surgeon: “Jerry keeps it like a sauna; the anesthesiologists have started complaining.”
Email
Print
Eight Year-End Films Vie for Oscar Contention
Sondheim and Lansbury on a Lifetime in Theater
The Black Keys Release Their Hip-hop Debut 
How the BQE Became an Artistic Muse
On Great Jones Street, Shopping Is Art 
Classic Fare, Old-world Charm at Le Caprice
Buy a Brownstone for Less Than $1 Million
Fifty of the City's Tastiest Soups
Reasons to Love New York 2009
New York Politicians Refuse to Quit
A-Rod Has Babe Ruth in His Sights
McCain Yields to the Party's Pressure
