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Melania Trump recently resurfaced after a 24-day absence from the public eye, following a statement from the White House stating that she’d undergone an embolization procedure for a benign kidney condition. Because Ms. Trump was in the hospital for five nights afterward, and because most embolization patients leave the hospital within 24 hours and especially because nobody saw her for *three weeks* afterward, the internet ran wild with a number of theories as to the real reasons for her disappearance. One of the most popular was that she had gotten some kind of plastic surgery.
Now, we definitely don’t know that that’s the case, and would never claim to know that’s the case, and there’s definitely not anything wrong with that if it *were *the case. But since this is what so many amateur sleuths on Twitter have been theorizing for days, it seems worth a quick fact-check: Which procedures, if any, *might* merit a three-week-plus recovery time?
**Eyelid surgery**
**Recovery time: Five to seven days.**
Dr. Tracy Pfeifer, a New York-based plastic surgeon on the board of directors of The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, tells me there are several common procedures popular among women around Melania Trump’s age (48). Perhaps the most common is eyelid surgery. “Blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery, is a very common procedure as people start to see changes around their eyes and usually their neck in their late 40s, early 50s,” says Pfeifer. But the recovery time for eyelid surgery is generally pretty fast: Pfeifer tells me that a common phrase plastic surgeons use to describe patient recovery time is “church ready” — as in, when can you get away with going to church (i.e. a community of people who know you) without anyone noticing the work you’ve had done? For eyelid surgery, says Pfeifer, it’s only about a week. “Typically for eyelid surgery, it’s about seven days because you have sutures that need to come out around day five,” she says.
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