Pain is very low with facial team compared to most other surgeons because they use modern ultrasonic bone cutting tools. The bad pain you hear about is from surgeons who use traditional tools.

This is why almost no one needs tramadol there. It’s not that they won’t give it, but you don’t need it. They do have stronger, but there’s close to zero chance you’d need it.

Pain was super mild for me with FT to be honest. And they have fantastic care if you request it (or sometimes pay for it). The only day I was really struggling I got this insanely amazing cooling massage on my face and it helped for days.

I think I was on paracetamol every 8 hours and ibuprofen every 6 hours for a couple days post hospitalization and it was very fine.

I don't think there's a definitive answer to this, like srs experiences are variable, myself I had minimal pain really for both ffs (forehead, chin, jaw, nose) and srs, and I took paracetamols only.

I had FFS with Facialteam this spring with forehead reconstruction and chin contour. The pain was quite mild, however the week after surgery was hard. I had a lot of swelling which was very uncomfortable and mentally exhausting.

Major pain is probably not very common with Facialteam, but you should definitely try to be prepared that the recovery can be hard even if the pain might be mild.

Good luck!