Category: facelift

Age-Related Changes and Longevity of Facelift Surgery

Patients that present for a plastic surgery consultation requesting a facelift always have a standard set of concerns and questions. Once they find out what a facelift really is their initial concern is that they don’t want to look unnatural or have a ‘wide-swept’ look. While everyone wants the best result possible, they don’t want Read More…

The Need For Facelift Touch-Ups

The facelift is one of the most recognized surgeries for facial aging. Patients ranging from their forties until the late eighties receive substantial benefits from a variety of facelift techniques. Cleaning up loose skin and fat from the neck and jowls and re-creating a youthful jawline is the objective of any facelift procedure and Read More…

Injectable Fillers vs. Surgery for Facial Rejuvenation

Injectable fillers have an invaluable role in facial rejuvenation. Most everyone knows their use for lip augmentation and nasolabial fold reduction. These two areas are still probably their most common usage in most practices. But injectable filler use has been extended in the past few years to the broader concept of facial rejuvenation. In Read More…

Basic Concepts About Facelift Surgery

Facelift surgery has undergone many evolutions in technique over the past thirty years. Most of these innovations have been largely based on anatomic revelations and efforts to maximize the degree of improvement and the longevity of the procedure. This has led to a wide variety of technique proponents and even marketing names to differentiate Read More…

Fibrin Glue In Facelift Surgery

Today’s plastic surgeon is awash, no pun intended, in a variety of topical and wound healing liquid and semi-liquid agents. Many of these are patient-derived and are extracts of either blood or fat. Stem cells are the most noteworthy of present but they are far from the first. One of the ‘oldest’ is that Read More…

Case Study: Octogenarian Facelift

Background: Aging of the face is inevitable and is always dramatically seen in the lower face and neck. Sagging of the jowls and neck occurs as the ligaments weaken and the skin stretches. While initially seen as a little bit of jowling and loose neck skin it can eventually progress to a full blown Read More…

The Reality Of Modern-Day Facelift Surgery

While there is no fountain of youth or one single magical cream that can rejuvenate the aging face, facelift surgery works its magic by making one feel better. The younger and more refreshed you look, the better you usually feel. With a better appearance also comes increased confidence which is helpful in both the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: The Facelift Bungee

A surgical facelift is the most effective and common method for eliminating those jowls, smoothing out the jawline and sharpening the neck angle. It does so by moving the loose skin that has fallen down off of the face and shifting it back towards the ears were it can be trimmed off, leaving fine line Read More…

The Various Methods of Injectable Facial Rejuvenation

The desire to correct an aging facial appearance has been around as along as there is recorded history. Facelift surgery in various forms has been employed now for over one hundred years. Today’s facelift techniques are very diverse and use manipulations of all tissue levels down to the bone to achieve often dramatic improvements. Younger Read More…

The Early Maintenance Facelift

The concept and perception of facial rejuvenation has been affected by many factors over the past decade. From injectable fillers, to laser and light therapies, to even ‘blood injections’, new therapies have emerged to help the aging face. These facial rejuvenation trends all share two similarities, they are non-surgical and are primarily for the younger Read More…