Category: facelift

Facelift Surgery – The Incision on the Backside of the Ear

Facelifts conceptually move loose skin of the jowls and neck backward and upward toward the ears. By making incisions around the ears, the loosened skin is displaced over the ear, trimmed off, and the incisions closed in and around the ears in its crevices and folds. While how the facelift incision is managed in the Read More…

Chin Augmentation and Facelift Surgery

While a facelift procedure can have a dramatic effect on the neck, how significant that result can be is partially influenced by the position of the chin. Short chins are often associated with a short neck, limiting the results of any facelift procedure. Because of the significance of the position of the chin as Read More…

Facelifts and their Recovery

While many people would like to have a facelift, one of the significant considerations is that of the recovery. Because of fears of a prolonged recovery time when one might look ‘distorted and abnormal’ or at the least bruised and swollen, some conclude that it is not possible from a lifestyle standpoint due to Read More…

A Quick Recovery after a Facelift

One of the many concerns that one has when considering having a facelift is what the recovery will be like. How long will I look bad? How much pain will I be in? When can I go back to work? When can I go out of the house and won’t look like I have had Read More…

Laser Facelift – Smartlipo Probe Technique

The concept of a laser facelift, as it is marketed today, is a non-surgical cosmetic procedure that utilizes a laser device to enhance the appearance of the face. Laser facelift procedures resurface the outermost layers of the facial skin to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. The laser face lift technique can be Read More…

Facelift Scars – Where Are They and How Do They Look?

Facelift surgery is about improving the neck and jawline at the expense of creating permanent scars. Working the loose skin from the neck up and backwards, excess skin which was once lower on the face is trimmed off around the ears. This ultimately placing the permanent scars in more natural skin creases that exist around Read More…

Facelift Surgery – Avoiding Loss of the Temporal Hairline

The primary motivation for which someone undergoes a facelift is to have a better looking neck and an improved jawline. While discreet scars are an accepted trade-off for this improvement, very visible scars or significant changes in one’s hairline are not. One of the most common telltale signs of a facelift is the loss Read More…

Facelift Surgery – Understanding Different Types and Their Recoveries

The greatest misconception about facelift surgery is that it does very little for what most people think of as their face. A facelift is really a neck and jowl lift, changing only the lower third of the face or the neck.Facelift surgery is also not a ‘one size fits all’ operation. Facelifts come in Read More…

The Anatomy of the Aging Neck

When seeing someone considering having a facelift (necklift), I frequently get asked in my Indianapolis plastic surgery practice, ‘How did my neck get like this?’ They often say it looked just fine until a few years ago and then suddenly it looks like it does now. That question is a good one and understanding Read More…

Male Facelift Surgery – What Makes It Different

Recent stories have surfaced that the actor, Michael Douglas, has had a facelift. Based on what are perceived to be scars at or around the ears, reporters are questioning as whether he had had this plastic surgery procedure. Given that many celebrities and ordinary men have facelifts, I am not sure what makes this Read More…