Healthy middle-aged men or women with lower face and neck laxity, jowls, deep nasolabial folds and middle face volume loss who desire surgical rejuvenation with long-term results.
Face-lift
Ideal candidates
The procedure
A facelift is a surgical technique that restores beautiful bone structure to the aging jaw, cheeks and neck in a natural way. Skin incision is placed in front of the ear and passes posterior to the hairline. The resulting scar is well hidden and nearly imperceptible. Resuspending of the muscular sub-structures of the face and neck (SMAS and platysma respectively) with sutures is very important to achieve lasting results. Neck lift is performed through a small incision under the chin. Lipo-transfer is an adjunctive procedure to restore cheek volume. Other additional procedures are upper and lower blepharoplasty, chin augmentation.
Anesthesia
General or Local anesthesia with sedation.
Recovery
After a mini-lift, patients can often return to work and normal routine after 10 days and that goes up to 15 days for a deep plane facelift. Drains may be placed for a few days and pressure facial mask is applied during the recovery period.
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