Facelift

– Facial Procedures –

FACELIFT

Aesthetic procedure to remove the excess of facial skin and reposition of those tissues under it, the goal is to achieve a more smooth and youthful appearance.

Depending on patient’s needs and objectives, sometimes other treatments must be take into consideration. For instance: eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty), BOTOX, facial liposuction or fat transfer. In some patients, results can last up to ten years.

Treatment may help these facial areas:

  • Inferior: underchin, jaw line, neck
  • Superior: mouth corners, nose, eyes, cheek bone.

Duration

2-5hrs

Recovery

2 weeks

Hospitalization

1 night

Ideal candidates for the surgery

  • Good health
  • Realistic expectations
  • Non Smokers
  • Good skin quality
  • Patients with sagging skin around the jawline and midface
  • Lost skin tension in neck

Surgical Procedure:

There are two basically, depending on need and objective of the patient:

  • Mini-facelift: Less invasive as the full facelift. Ideal for patients which need no work on the neck. Incisions are made from the temple area (above the ears) to the ear lobule.
  • Standard Facelift: Patients with more aging face on the middle, lower face and the neck. Incisions starts like the above procedure and continue behind the ear and down to the neck.

After the procedure, some discomfort is expected, small cramps, numbness. Bruising as well depends on each patient, same story with swelling. 10 days after surgery, stitches will be removed, some of them are self dissolvable.