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OR Snapshots – The Effects of a Facelift on a Regional Scar

One of the basic tenets of how facelift surgery works is by translocation or repositioning of tissues. Sagging and loose skin along the jawline and neck is relocated up and back towards the ear where it can be removed with a more discrete scar location. This then means that some fixed structures on the side Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Ear and Scat Revisions After Facelift Surgery

Background: Facelift surgery has many variations in how it is performed with particular emphasis on manipulations of the intermediate and deeper tissue planes But the one common thread between most of these techniques is the need for incisions around the ears. Often overlooked is that the results of a facelift is often judged by the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Facelift with Pixie Ear Correction

Background: The ear initially develops from the pharyngeal arches in the neck and during embryologic development raises up to the side of the head. This is why in some congenital facial deformities the ear position is low as part of the disruption of the normal embryologic process. While the development of the lobule of the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Earlobe Reduction in Facelift Surgery

Background: While there are various methods of performing a lower facelift the one aspect that all share are am incision in and around each ear. One can debate whether the pre auricular incision goes in front of or behind the tragus but it will always wrap around the earlobe on its way to the back Read More…

Incision, Ear and Hairline Management in Facelift Surgery

The facelift is a well known facial rejuvenation procedure that has had many technical and some conceptual variations over the years. The biggest innovation and recent is for the deep plane facelift. One could debate what constitutes a deep plane facelift at the SMAS and sub-SMAS layers but the concept is anatomically sound…release and lift Read More…

Technical Strategies – Temporal Threadlift Knot Removal

A well known minimally invasive facial rejuvenation procedure is the thread lift. This term refers to a concept of lifting sagging facial tissues by placing special designed sutures that can grab onto the subcutaneous tissues to be pulled upward along the line of the suture placement. This occurs as a result of a tied knot Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Pixie Ear Correction in the Young Female Facelift Patient

Background: While there are many techniques for lower facelift surgery they all share one basic element…incisions around the ears. No matter what is done inside (SMAS manipulations) the presence of incision in and around the ears is what controls the amount of face and neck skin that is removed and repositioned in the procedure. As Read More…

Facelift Surgery for Jowling Correction after V Line Jaw Reduction

V line surgery is a well known technique of reductive contouring of the lower third of the face. It is based on reducing the size of the lower jaw from front to back with more bone removed at the jaw angles than at the chin. There are several different types of v line surgery but Read More…

The Preauricular Placement of Cheek Implants in Facelift Surgery

Adverse changes in the cheeks such as flatness and sagging is a common sequelae of aging as the tissues fall off of the cheekbones. Sagging cheek tissues combined with volume loss from fat atrophy make cheek management an important element of some facelift surgeries. Adding volume back and/or lifting of the cheeks back up can Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Surgery For Hypertrophic Facelift Scars

Background: Facelift surgery has been performed for over a century. While there have been many advancements in facelift surgery due to a better understanding of the anatomy the one component of it that has never changed is the location of the incisions. They have always been placed around the ear and serve as the most Read More…