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No patient or operation is quite the same and so you may find that not everything below will apply to you. Nonetheless we hope that these answers to common questions and worries are helpful. Please ask you doctor or nurse if you are unclear about anythin...

Only one observational study compared wet and dry shaving. The comparisons also included electrical clipping the evening prior to, or the day of surgery. The results of this study favoured the use of electrical clipping the evening before surgery, or...

The timing of hair removal has generally been based on facilitating ease of preparatory activity by health care workers or by facility policy rather than scientific evidence. Although experts have long held the view that hair removal close to the tim...

A randomised study of 418 patients compared shaving and depilation in abdominal surgery. In this study, a lower percentage of patients who had depilation developed surgical site infections. However, the result was not statistically significant. Two o...

The use of electric clippers for hair removal is commonly compared with shaving as the control in randomised studies, as shaving is still considered routine practice. A large randomised study compared shaving and electrical clipping the night before ...