Is Temporal Reduction Surgery Life Threatening?

Q: Dr. Eppley, is temporal reduction surgery life-threatening? Is it true that after it someone has a headache forever?

A:There is nothing life threatening about temporal reduction surgery. It is as safe as any other aesthetic surgery. No patient has ever experienced long term headaches after the surgery in the hundreds of patients I have done. So no that assertion about chronic headache is not true nor does it have a biologic basis for it.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon