Category: facelift

For anyone considering a facelift, one of the most important concerns or questions is……where are the incisions (scars) going to be? While there are numerous ‘kinds’ of facelifts, almost all of them use very similar types of incisions. The more extensive or complete the facelift is, the more likely and the longer the incisions will Read More…

  Pain after surgery is an understandable and common fear, particularly in cosmetic plastic surgery where the decision to have it done is completely elective. Facelift surgery, in particular, has a popular perception that it will be very painful after the operation. After all, it is an extensive surgery on your face. How could it Read More…

  Facelift surgery brings dramatic changes to the neck and jowl area and helps to completely reverse the effects of aging and gravity on this visible facial area. While the euphoria of the final result is what many patients understandably think about, there are some expected after surgery events that happen that can be disturbing Read More…

  Due to television and internet advertising, I get a lot of questions from my exiting patients as well as new potential patients about the ‘Lifestyle Lift’.  This one-hour ‘method’ shows some fairly significant before and after results with improvement in the jowl and neck areas. Many people as they age would understandably like to Read More…

The appeal of using specialized sutures to resuspend sagging facial tissues in a minimally-invasive operation is enormous. Doing a little facial tightening or tuck-up as an office procedure with little downtime has its obvious advantages. As a result, numerous types of barbed sutures have become available over the past five years and many such procedures Read More…

  A facelift does a tremendous job of improving the neck and jowl lines. While there are numerous methods and advocates of different facelift techniques, there is not one universally agreed upon technique that ‘works the best’. All types of facelifts must engage one important reality….the surgery is treating the symptoms of the problem (loose skin Read More…

  As facelifts have become commonplace, so do the telltale signs of someone having had a facelift. Almost everyone knows or has seen someone that has had, in their opinion, a ‘bad’ facelift. More specifically, they find that the person may look strange or different after surgery. Most importantly, they look like they have had something Read More…

Patients undergo facelifts to improve their neck and jawline but would ot consider visible or poor scarring a good trade-off in most cases. While many plastic surgeons can demonstrate how good their postoperative jawline, neck, and midface results are, it is equally important to have little to none of the telltale signs of having had Read More…