Category: facelift

The Younger Facelift – Less Is Just About Right

This generation of facelift patients is seeing a paradigm shift in how this facial rejuvenation procedure is being performed. In days gone by, one appeared when they were in their late 50s and 60s and had the procedure as a ‘reward’ for their years of life or waited until they retired when they had more Read More…

Case Study: Full Facelift for Neck Wattle Correction

Background: The concept of a facelift is one of the most recognizeable plastic surgery terms/procedures. It is such a pervasive term in the world of anti-aging treatments that the mere mention of its name evokes strong reactions, some positive and others very derogatory about it. But despite its familiarity and perceptions, it is one of Read More…

Facelifts and Age Reversal

The term ‘facial rejuvenation’ encompasses a broad range of aesthetic soft tissue procedures of the face of which the most recognizeable is the facelift. Patients desire a facelift when their jowls and neck sag and they wish to have a more youthful jaw and neckline. One of the most common questions patients ask before surgery Read More…

Social Media-Induced Plastic Surgery

In days past, the mirror or a printed picture was how we conceived of ourself. It has been said that at any one time we are three different people, how others see us, how we see ourselves and the way we really look. A normal person is probably the one in which all three images Read More…

Case Study: The Direct Necklift For Neck Wattles In Women

Background: Aging of the face takes on many manifestations but inevitably the neck gets involved. Loss of the neck angle occurs as skin begins to sag, falling over the jawline in jowls and draping downward from the central portion of the neck. In more advanced aging, the platysmal muscles of the neck separate and fat Read More…

Facelifts vs. Facelifting

There are certain procedure names in plastic surgery that immediately conjure up in public perception as to what it is. Aesthetic procedures such as rhinoplasty, breast implants and liposuction leave no doubt as to what they accomplish. The name alone speaks for what it does and there is little room for interpretation as to the Read More…

Case Study: Facelift with Chin-Prejowl Augmentation

Background: Aging of the face takes on many predictable changes but none is more evident than what occurs along the jawline. The once more discernible and sharp jawline becomes lost as jowls appear and the neck sags. The neck angle becomes more obtuse, the chin may appear shorter, and the transition between the face and Read More…

The Uniqueness of Male Plastic Surgery – Facial Procedures

The facial aging process is one that is well known as everyone will eventually see it on their face. The eyes get heavy, the brows descend, the cheek fall, jowls develop and the neck sags. Women become concerned earlier in the aging process and proceed to do procedures to treat or slow it down in Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Muscles of Facial Aging

A facelift, despite being a well known procedure, is frequently misunderstood. The most common misconception is of the actual facial area that is treated. Rather than the whole face, it treats only the lower third of the face, the neck and jowl areas. But the second misconception is what lies under the skin or, more Read More…

The Role of the SMAS in Today’s Facelift Surgery

Facelift surgery is well known to lift, remove and tighten skin that is recruited from the jowls and neck. In its most simplest form, a facelift chases sagging and loose skin from the neck and jawline back to where its removal offers the best incision placement and resultant scar creation…in and around the ears. Read More…