Encinitas Facelift doctors

You are to be sincerely congratulated and commended for losing the extra weight, and hopefully, you'll be able to keep it off.  A smile will instantly lift your face, which is why so many surgeons post photos of their post surgical facelift patients smiling.  I don't see sagging in your face or neck at all.  Your upper lid marginal reflex distance is lower than normal, and you have about 1 mm scleral show beneath your corneoscleral limbus and lower eyelid-cheek junction is clearly demarcated, with lower eyelid contour irregularities.  Your canthal tilt is beautiful.  The corners of your lips turn up nicely, and only if the nasal labial furrows bother you would I treat them with filler.

The treatment I would recommend depends on which of your features bothers you, what your budget is, available recovery time, and risk tolerance.  Also, how strongly you feel about a permanent (or very long lasting) result is germane.  Specifically, what exactly is the distasteful "sagging" you reference?

You should find a physician or surgeon in your area who offers "Facetite," schedule an appointment, and have your questions answered in person, as the procedure applies to you.  Look at before and after treatment photos of patients who have had Facetite sessions, and critically evaluate the results to help decide whether or not you wish to proceed.

It is not actually the facial muscles that are repositioned in a facelift, but the investing layer of fascia, called SMAS for short. By tightening the SMAS, overlying fat and skin are also tightened, but without direct tension on the skin, so the skin will not look stretched.