When I perform a mini facelift it does get rid of jowls, but every surgeon has a different approach to the mini facelift. This is something to ask your surgeon during a consultation. My mini facelift includes your lower face up to your cheeks. It lifts along your jawline and under your chin a bit, …
It typically takes about two weeks to recover from a facelift to where you’re able to go back to work, resume your normal social activities, and where other people won’t notice that you’ve had something done. Before that, there’s some swelling and bruising that may or may not be able to be hidden with makeup. …
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The age at which you should get a mini facelift depends on your aging process. I’ve done mini facelifts on people in their 40s all the way up to their mid-60s and later. This is the best for people whose mid-face has descended from the cheeks to the jawline but their neck is in good …
A blepharoplasty and mini facelift are often done at the same time. These two surgeries go together well and are easily performed together. The advantage is that you have only one recovery period and it costs less because you only pay for the facility and anesthesia once. Does a mini facelift include the eyes? A …
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The number of plastic surgeries you can have at once depends on the type of surgeries you’re getting done together. If the surgeries are on the smaller side, a number of them can be done at once. Whenever we do facial rejuvenation surgery, there may be five or six different surgeries that we do all …
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The best facial rejuvenation treatment depends on the person, their aging process, and their genetics along with what bothers them about their face. For most people, the facelift is the best bet. It’s what makes people look younger, taking up to 10 years off, and makes them look more vibrant overall. For other people, we …
A string facelift is something that I don’t do, but it is done with dissolvable threads that are placed under the skin to lift the skin and anchor it to structures higher up in the hairline and around the jawline. How long does a string facelift last? The length of time that a string facelift …
The best treatment for skin tightening is by far the facelift, but this is a surgical procedure and has some downside and risks. It gives the best results that you will see right away and it lasts at least 10 years or more. If you don’t want much downtime, there are a lot of different …
The bullhorn lip lift is the most common type of lip lift where the incision begins on one side of the nose under the nostril and makes its way across the middle. Then the same is done on the other side. The name comes from the fact that the resulting incision is in the shape …
We perform multiple surgeries at once all the time. It’s very common for facial rejuvenation patients where we perform a facelift with eyelid surgery and/or brow surgery, and we might even throw in a hairline advancement or hair transplant surgery. We do this a lot for gender reassignment patients. If you’re wanting to make your …
A deep plane facelift lasts about 10 to 15 years, but that doesn’t mean in that 10 to 15 years your face is going to go back to the way it was before surgery. What is means is that at the ten to fifteen year mark you might start to see a little bit of …
Nasolabial folds are caused by the depletion of fat in the compartments of the mid-face/cheek area that causes the skin to sag and fold over, creating vertical lines that develop between the nose and the mouth, often called smile lines. Age and rapid weight loss are the prime culprits of this loss of volume in …
A deep plane facelift is done by creating an incision and going under the skin to separate the skin and the SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) from the attachments that hold it down. Once untethered, we move the whole area, the whole face, and/or the whole neck back up to where it used to be. This …
The malar fat pad is lifted with an upper-face lift, sometimes called a mid-face lift or a mini facelift. It lifts the part of the cheek between your eye and the jawline. There are minimally invasive lifts, such as the temporal lift, that have been abandoned, or thread lifts, that don’t last very long, but …
You can’t see facelift scars if a facelift is done well, and the incisions are well placed and enclosed. This is a really great question to ask when interviewing surgeons for a facelift. Ask about their technique and where they create their incisions. Is there a way to do surgery with no scars? There is no …