Category: facelift | laser resurfacing

Combining Laser Resurfacing and Facelift Surgery

Facelift surgery addresses sagging and loose tissues that have fallen due to aging. To a large degree facelifts are a tissue resuspension method which uses some tissue excision (skin and fat) to create the effect. However, a facelift in and of itself, does not change many of the more superficial lines and wrinkles on the Read More…

Lifestyle Lift Company Suspends Business Operations

The Lifestyle Lift is a fairly well known cosmetic procedure due to extensive marketing and long-term branding efforts. It represents one of the few plastic surgery operations that has become ‘franchised’ and turned into a medical commodity of sorts. This is very different and much more difficult than what occurs with drugs and devices Read More…

Facelift Surgery in Weight Loss Patients

There are many bodily changes that take place when one loses a lot of weight and they are well recognized as general skin and soft tissue sag. But the face is not immune to weight loss changes. It creates equal issues of volume loss and sag resulting in a droopy deflated face and obvious turkey Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Submental Rebound Relaxation After Facelift

Background: A facelift is one of the most well known but also misunderstood of the anti-aging facial surgical procedures. Besides the frequent misinterpretation of what a facelift really is, there is also the confusion added to it by the marketing of many ‘franchise’ forms of facelifts which promise big changes with limited recovery. Numerous other Read More…

Combining Facelift, Cheek Implants and Laser Resurfacing for Total Facial Rejuvenation

When most people think of facial rejuvenation undertandably the thought a facelift emerges. But contrary to popular perception, a facelift only addresses the lower third of the face. While smoothing out the neck and the jawline provides a youthful improvement, it does not address the middle of the face. Even if it could pulling the Read More…

Case Study: Submental Relaxation after Facelift Surgery

Background: Facelift surgery is very common and is the single most effective procedure for correcting aging issues of the jowls and neck. By removing excess fat in the neck and jowls, tightening the platysma muscles and redraping loose skin up toward the ears and temporal hairline, a recontouring of the lower face is achieved. In Read More…

Facelift Approach in the HIV-Positive Patient

Facelift surgery is performed on a wide variety of patients, regardless of age, gender, race or medical condition. There are nuances in facelift surgery for all of these differing patient considerations that can alter the technique and the tissues manipulated to optimize outcomes. The greatest nuances amongst facelift techniques is in what tissues below the Read More…

A Study of the MACS Facelift

Facelifts come in many variations and names and, while many are very similar in their surgical technique, others are distinctly different by more than just their name. One such category of facelifts has been that of a family of scaled down versions from more traditional full or extended facelifts known as ‘limited facelifts’. These type Read More…

Plastic Surgery Humor – Facelift

Almost everyone’s concept of a facelift is one that is pulled too tight. This misconception undoubtably comes from celebrities who have made somewhat of a career and perpetual jokes about their own facelifts. Such notables include Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers. They made a good living poking fun at themselves and their own taut Read More…

Treatment of Greater Auricular Nerve Injuries from Facelift Surgery

Facelifts are common facial rejuvenation surgeries that are associated with relatively few minor after surgery problems. (e.g., tightness and banding) Many of these issues are self solving with time as tissues heal and relax. One issue that may not improve with time is a nerve injury. While the greatest fear of nerve injury from a Read More…