The guides exist because surgical information given once, in a consultation room, has a short half-life. Patients remember the decision; the details — which spray to stop, when the splint comes off, what counts as too much bleeding — belong somewhere they can be re-read at midnight. Each guide walks one operation from decision to recovery in the order events actually happen, and the post-operative page repeats the aftercare instructions on their own, for the days when that is all you need. They are education, not advice: your surgeon’s specific instructions always come first. Alongside them, two practical pages answer the questions that surround an operation rather than the operation itself: what OHIP insures and what it does not, and how long things take, with the practice’s dated ranges.