In a city the place cosmetic surgery is as ubiquitous as kombucha, the place and the way one recuperates might be as important as which board-certified physician performs the operation.

“Individuals are investing upward of $100,000 on beauty surgical procedures however selecting to stint on the post-op care, and it’s not a good suggestion,” Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon Lisa Cassileth, who focuses on breast reconstruction, tells THR. “Loads can go improper after main surgical procedure, and having a pal or member of the family care for you possibly can set again the restoration and the consequence and in the end have an effect on how you find yourself trying.”

Postsurgical retreats have been a mainstay in L.A. for years, with Serenity Aftercare, a health-care facility in Santa Monica, reigning because the gold commonplace. However after it closed in the course of the pandemic, a brand new crop of post-op hideaways has emerged, they usually’re upping the ante because of partnerships with posh motels together with the 4 Seasons, SLS Beverly Hills and The Beverly Hilton, the place sufferers get well in luxe environment with room, nursing, meals and transportation included within the nightly charge.

Opened in 2021 by facial plastic surgeon Ben Talei, Aura AfterCare (auraaftercare.com, from $1,750 per night time) now employs a lot of Serenity’s employees, together with expert nurses with greater than 25 years of expertise. It contains 4 3,500-square-foot condos, most with their very own personal balconies, in an opulent residential constructing within the Wilshire Hall. Nurses are on name 24/7, and there’s an in-house chef who creates a personalized menu of meals designed for optimum diet and restoration together with Kosher, vegan and vegetarian choices. The post-op middle gives à la carte therapeutic therapies reminiscent of an LED mattress (mentioned to assist cut back irritation); IV drip remedy (to spice up hydration and supply nutritional vitamins); and a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. “The 60- to 90-minute periods assist enhance the blood provide into the tissues after being disrupted by surgical procedure,” says Talei.

There’s even medicinal leech remedy, which was accredited by the FDA in 2004. “That is useful if the blood provide ended up being compromised after surgical procedure, which may occur with a revision face-lift, nostril job or tummy tuck,” says Talei. “It’s an outdated remedy that’s been round a very long time and helps skinny the blood to cut back swelling.”

Irina Brodsky (@laleeches) has been working towards this historic remedy, known as hirudotherapy, for greater than 10 years. “Leeches have been the unique antibiotics,” she says. “Their saliva, which could be very suitable with the human physique, is actually a stay pharmacy containing enzymes, amino acids, and proteins which might be very therapeutic and acts like a pure blood thinner, particularly when there’s bruising or if decongesting is important,” she provides. Every 90-minute session (from $200) could be very tolerable and can be efficient for treating hormonal imbalances, joint ache, and even melancholy in line with Brodsky. “There’s a sensation of delicate burning on the floor of the pores and skin because the leeches work like little pumps, releasing pure blood thinner into the physique, however there isn’t any ache,” she provides

One other newer aftercare spot, Calicia Care (caliciacare.com, from $2,000), co-founded by sisters Erika and Lexi Maldonado (Lexi is an RN), gives sufferers restoration time in plush visitor rooms at The Beverly Hilton. “We care for every part, and it’s at all times one-on-one nursing care,” says Erika. Therapies can embrace in-room lymphatic drainage therapies and reiki periods, plus companies like canine strolling, manicure/pedicures and make-up/hairstyling “if sufferers wish to go residence trying recent,” she provides.

Status Surgical Aftercare (prestigeaftercare.com, from $2,099), housed on the SLS Lodge Beverly Hills, has suites that embrace D. Porthault linens and automatic voice management for the lights, beds and 55-inch flat-screens.

Aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon Payman Danielpour shares that his go-to for aftercare is Immortelle Healthcare Group (immortellemed.com, from $3,300), which has 12 rooms on the 4 Seasons Lodge Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. “It has all of the facilities and talents of a mini hospital, and my sufferers love the white-glove, royal remedy and further attentive care,” he says.

Wanted for elective and nonelective post-surgical restoration, Immortelle prides itself on a holistic method to aftercare. “With each affected person, we take into account not solely the inner drugs part and post-surgical care, however psychological assist as properly,” says co-founder Evan Pinchuk. “All three go hand in hand on the subject of serving to enhance affected person outcomes.” And due to the in depth medical gear they’ve on website, Immortelle can carry out hospital-level interventions if obligatory. Therapies embrace photobiomodulation gentle remedy, which guarantees to cut back irritation, swelling, ache and anxiousness. The 20- to 60-minute remedy (from $300 per session) doesn’t contain discomfort and “helps sufferers get higher sooner,” says Pinchuk, who provides, “We ship 4 Seasons stage of care, expertise and repair.”

For sufferers seeking to proceed the therapeutic as soon as they’re again on their ft, Pause Studio (pausestudio.com) has a number of Los Angeles areas and gives an array of therapies at their modern outposts for anybody searching for a dose of restoration, together with LED gentle remedy beds and compression remedy, which support in repairing broken tissues and reducing irritation (from $40 per session).

A model of this story first appeared within the June 21 situation of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.