San Diego Thread Lift doctors

If you have any doubts about what your surgeon is telling you then you need to get a second opinion. If he/she feels the threads can and should be removed then that is your best guide. Having done a few of these procedures over the years, I can tell you the reason they are no longer available is that the lift only lasted a few months at best. Therefore, if should make little difference if they are removed four years later. With that said, I would not have a surgery simply to remove them if they aren't bothering you. If they are deeply embedded that could be more harmful than beneficial because of the trauma to the tissues getting them out.

Generally speaking what most people call a neck lift is really what we think of as a face lift. While there are a few less common operations out there that just treat the neck, the loose skin under the chin almost always accompanies jowling and should be they addressed together. Simple removal of loose neck skin is possible but even the best scar will be immediately apparent. Instead, the scar is hidden by the ear and loose neck and facial skin is shifted to around the ear where it can be removed with a more cosmetically acceptable scar. This would be a standard face lift. Combining it with eyelid and brow rejuvenation and you have what most people refer to as a full face lift.

You won't find a surgeon performing the Contour threadlift any more as the company is no longer making the threads. I suspect, as others have alluded to, this is because they didn't really work. It was an interesting concept that sounded promising but the lift was far less lasting than the short duration of two years predicted by the creator. Additionally, the ideal candidate group was very small as any patient with any significant amount of loose skin would be happier with a facelift. A competitor at the time, the Aptos thread, can still be found on the market but with great difficulty. I suspect it has the same problems that Contour thread did.

Now, the newest threadlift to hit the US market is called Silhouette Lift. It has been around Europe for about eight years and there are about 1200 patients worldwide with the devices in them. There are a few things about the design of the Silhouette thread that makes them more promising than their predecessors. They use a clear, permanent thread with knots tied in it. Between the knots are absorbable cones that provide for the initial lifting of the face. Over time, as the cones disappear, scar tissue in grows into the knots to make the thread permanent. In some of the early patients it has been shown that one can go back years later and using the original threads, lift the face again.

I have personally used the Contour threads and have done several Sillhouette Lfit patients. I am much happier with the results I have seen thus far in the Silhouette Lift patients than I was with the Contour Lift patients. The ideal candidate still remains the relatively young person with mild skin laxity.