Surgical Facelift

Surgical facelift is a solution for anyone that is looking for a way to permanently take care of the wrinkles, sagging skin and age spots. By having a surgical facelift it will make your face look and feel more youthful.

Surgical Facelift: Where Does It Lift?

As people age their facial muscles loosen and their skin becomes less elastic, you start seeing more wrinkles and saggy skin. Having a surgical facelift will tighten and pull together the sagging skin, wrinkled skin, and loosen muscles. A surgical facelift can lift the whole face or certain areas of the face such as, eye brow area, lower face, and the neck.

Surgical Facelift: The Different Techniques

Having a surgical facelift can help your skin appear younger and make your overall appearance youthful. Surgical facelift means to surgically make the face lift up and tighten the skin and muscles. The facelift surgeons can use different techniques while performing the surgical facelift.

At the consultation the doctor and the patient will go over which surgical facelift technique is best for that patient.

Surgical Facelift: The Traditional Surgical Facelift:

In this surgical facelift the surgeon makes a surgical cut in the hairline near the temple, then follows the hairline down and goes in front of the ear, then follows the natural ear line down the ear and goes behind the ears. The surgeon will then move to the side of the face and start at the temple and work its way down in front of the ear and finish behind the ear. The doctor may also cut under the chin if the patient wants to lift a sagging jawline.

After the facelift surgeon has made the incisions the next part of the surgical facelift is to carefully separate the skin from the tissue. After the tissue and the skin are separated the facelift surgeon will remove or reposition the fat, in the surgical facelift the surgeon removes the fat so the face looks youthful, but sometimes repositions the fat to help make the whole face even and reduces the wrinkles.

After the fat is removed or put in its position, the surgeon will then tighten the muscles in the face to give the appearance of a more youthful face. Next in the surgical facelift procedure the surgeon will lift the skin and put it back around the face and trim off any extra skin.

When the skin is trimmed off the surgeon will then stitch the skin back in place, in this surgical facelift procedure many doctors use dissolvable stitches.

This surgical facelift is the traditional way of having a facelift. After getting out of the surgery your face and head will be wrapped in bandages. Also, with the surgical facelift the doctors will put draining tubes behind the patient's ears so that they can drain out all the fluids, the tubes will be out within two days of surgery.

Surgical Facelift: Minimal Access Cranial Suspension

This surgical facelift procedure has shorter incisions than what the tradition facelift had. The incisions are made by the temple and in front of the ears. When the surgeon makes these cuts he or she will remove the fat that is around the muscles and the muscles get tightened, but in this surgical procedure the doctor will use permanent stitches. In other surgical procedures the stitches either get removed or are dissolvable.

This picture shows where the incisions will be for this specific surgical facelift procedure.

Surgical Facelift: Keyhole surgery

Another surgical facelift procedure is called the keyhole surgery. In this surgical facelift procedure the surgeon makes tiny cuts into the skin. In this surgical facelift procedure the surgeon uses a narrow, flexible tube that has a telescopic camera on the end of it and puts this tube like object into the incision. This camera tool is called endoscope. During this surgical facelift procedure the surgeon does the entire procedure by looking at the pictures that are sent from the endoscope. When the surgeon puts the endoscope into the incision the camera takes pictures and the doctor can see the pictures from a monitor and this monitor helps the doctor perform this surgical facelift procedure.

With this surgical facelift procedure there are smaller scars, but this surgical facelift procedure is mostly common for the upper face or brow lift procedure. By having this procedure there will be a shorter recovery time because the incisions are so much smaller.

Surgical Facelift: The different procedures

Surgical facelift means the patient is having surgery to get the face lifted. There are different types of surgical facelifts that help with different areas on the face. Some of the surgical facelifts people get are: Full facelift, lower facelift, mid facelift, mini facelift and thread facelift.

Finding A Surgical Facelift Surgeon

If you are ready to have the surgical facelift procedure, please use our surgeon locator for a surgical facelift surgeon in your area!

It is important to remember when calling to make consultations to ask the surgical facelift surgeon questions such as: their credentials, before and after photos, and if you can speak with one of their surgical facelift patients.

The surgical facelift procedure will help make you feel youthful, and look 10 years younger in one procedure with long lasting and dramatic results. Make your surgical facelift consultation today!