Recovery Expectations After Surgery

While not a guarantee for an individual's experience, these pages describe the usual recovery timeline after each procedure.

Choose your procedure below to see what recovery usually looks like: the typical timeline, pain control, activity, wound care, and when to call your surgeon. Every recovery is different, so always follow the specific instructions your surgeon gives you.

• Abscess Incision and Drainage

• Adenoidectomy

• Biopsy of or Through the Skin

• Branchial Cleft Cyst Excision

• Bronchoscopy

• Closed Reduction of Nasal Fracture

• Drug Induced Sleep Endoscopy (DISE)

• Ear Canal Surgery (Meatoplasty/Canalplasty)

• Ear Exam Under Anesthesia With Possible Ear Tube Placement or Removal

• Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

• Endoscopic Sinus Surgery With Possible Excision of a Mass

• Esophagoscopy

• Excision of Malignancy

• Eyelid Surgery (Blepharoplasty)

• Foreign Body Removal from the Aerodigestive Tract

• Foreign Body Removal Through the Skin

• Frenulectomy

• General Incisional Surgery

• Hematoma Evacuation

• Injection Laryngoplasty

• Inspire Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulator Implantation

• Laryngoscopy (With or Without Biopsy)

• Medialization Thyroplasty

• Nasal Endoscopy and Nasopharyngoscopy

• Neck Dissection (Cervical Lymphadenectomy)

• Oral Cavity Surgery

• Osia Implant Surgery

• Otoplasty

• Panendoscopy

• Paper Patch Myringoplasty

• Parathyroidectomy

• Parotidectomy

• Rhinoplasty (Cosmetic and/or Functional)

• Sentinel Node Biopsy

• Septoplasty and/or Turbinate Reduction

• Skin Excision and Possible Skin Flap or Graft

• Subglottic or Tracheal Stenosis Balloon Dilation

• Submandibular Gland Excision

• Thyroglossal Duct Cyst Excision (Sistrunk Procedure)

• Thyroidectomy

• Tonsillectomy ± Adenoidectomy

• Tracheostomy

• Transoral Abscess Drainage

• Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

• Tympanoplasty

• Tympanostomy Tube Placement

• Zenker's Diverticulum Surgery

• Zygomaticomaxillary Complex (ZMC) Fracture Repair