Category: facelift

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…

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…