• Patients who choose to be sedated may not take a taxi, bus, or drive yourself home following your surgery.
  Please make sure your escort understands that he/she may not leave the office
  until you are discharged from recovery, and they need to stay with you a few
  hours upon arriving at home.
  

• No food or drink for 6 hours prior to surgery, this includes gum, mints, and candy.

• No contact lenses, nail polish or jewelry.

• Wear a short sleeve shirt and flat shoes (no sandals).

• If you have long hair, do not put it in a pony tail.

• You may brush your teeth, but do not swallow the water.

Special Instructions:

• Patients who require antibiotic pre-medication, should take the medication 1 hour prior to the appointment
  with a small sip of water.

• Patients who take high blood pressure medicines, should take these with a sip of water at your usual time.

• Diabetic patients on oral medicines should not take these the morning of surgery.

• Diabetic patients on insulin should take 1/2 the normal dose of long acting insulin and hold the morning
  dose of regular insulin the day of surgery.

• Diabetic patients must bring thier glucometer and insulin with them.

• Asthmatic patients must bring their inhaler with them.
• Patients with complex medical histories will need to be seen prior to surgery for a consultation to determine specific preoperative instructions.