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Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Type 1 Facelift

Background: Aging affects faces at different rates but the overall effect is the same. The face slowly sags with skin hanging over the jawline and the neck tissues becoming loose. Because facial aging occurs differently, the type and extent of its treatment should also differ. The facelift remains as the definitive treatment of the lower Read More…

Pixie Ear Deformity Correction in Small Earlobes

The Pixie ear deformity is a well described adverse after effect from a facelift. It is seen as an aesthetic postoperative anomaly where the lower portion of the earlobe is attached to the side of the face without a notch at the earlobe-face junction. In short, the earlobe looks pulled down. It is caused Read More…

The Type I Facelift

When people think of facelift surgery, they usually envision an extensive and a one procedure fits all type of operation. But the reality is that not all patients have the same type of facelifting procedure as facial aging affects different ages and people in various degrees. Because of these variable age-related effects, facelifts can be Read More…

Facelift Incision Planning

Incision planning and execution is one of the most overlooked aspects of facelift surgery. While patients may get caught up in the details of whether and how the SMAS is manipulated, for example, facelift incisions actually are more crucial to a successful outcome and the long term satisfaction from a facelift. Visible scars or changes Read More…

Concepts of Facelift Surgery

The natural looking facelift result is the most important goal to most patients that consider or undergo the procedure. Few patients want to look like they have had a facelift or look excessively pulled. (windswept look) Patients desire to set the clock back so to speak and look like a more youthful version of themselves. Read More…

Options in Male Facelift Incisions

Facelift surgery is the most effective method for reshaping the aging neck and jawline. While many variations of facelifts exist, each with their own advocates, it is clear that there is no single one best way to perform the surgery. The extent of skin undermining, how the underlying SMAS layer is manipulated and what other Read More…

Earlobe Reduction and Facelift Surgery

A facelift is a very well known facial rejuvenation procedure that has its primary effects on the addressing loose skin and tissues in the neck and jawline. While there are a large number of iterations and varieties of described facelift techniques, they all require incisions around the ears to create their desired effects. While much Read More…

The Liquid Facelift – What It Is and Isn’t

The well known procedures of anti-aging facial plastic surgery continue to be debated as to which techniques are best. (e.g., facelift) And those debates will undoubtably continue for decades to come as the differences in them are often subtle and no matter how it is done it is still a surgical procedure. In contrast, the Read More…

Submandibular Gland Removal in Facelift Surgery

Creating a much improved neck shape is one of the primary goals of a facelift. (aka lower facelift or necklift) Manipulating the neck tissues of the skin, fat and platysmal muscle are standard therapies and will create very pleasing changes in the vast majority of facial aging patients. The other structure of the neck that Read More…

Assessment of Facelift Surgery Satisfaction

Facelift surgery is one of the most commonly performed anti-aging facial procedures and certainly one that is historically highly associated with plastic surgery. In the U.S. alone over 125,000 facelift procedures are performed per year. It is felt that a facelift produces a highly satisfied patient given the amount of improvement seen in before Read More…