Saint Louis Facelift doctors

You do appear to have symptoms of facial nerve injury on your right side, either due to the surgery or possibly unrelated (viral, Bell's palsy, etc).

Some ongoing recovery is expected over time. As the previous surgeon mentioned, professional eye care is extremely important to prevent eye infection due to incomplete blinking causing dryness of the cornea.

When your recovery plateaus, if need be, a small gold weight can be implanted into the right eyelid to allow much more normal involuntary blinking. In the meantime, a small amount of injectable filler performed by an experienced surgeon can simulate the same effect, allowing a 1 minute office procedure to give you complete eye closure while your condition finished healing. If there is still weakness, then the filler can be dissolved and a gold weight placed. If the weakness resolves 100%, simply dissolving the filler will do.

As you can see by the large number of responses, this is a hot topic among plastic surgeons.  That's because there are so many claims being made of the benefits for using stem cells in cosmetic medicine and very little evidence to support those claims.  Do your research and avoid procedures that claim superiority based on unfounded data.  

I leave with these words of wisdom:

   -"There is a sucker born every minute."-P.T. Barnum

   -"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."-Mom

   _"Remember the marketing director never sleeps."-Lund

As others have stated; please consult with a board certified plastic surgeon and also look at the information on the websites of The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and The American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Hope this helps.

In the past, facial aging theories believed that as the skin aged, it stretched and everything under it sagged and fell as it lost the support of the skin.  That is why the old facelift techniques really just pulled on the skin, using the skin to lift and support the underlying structures.  However, since skin stretches easily, the results of these procedures did not last long and with frequent revisions, gave that "pulled, windblown" look.

Over the past years, plastic surgeons have come to understand that aging of the face is far more complex that we ever imagined.  As we age, some of our tissues deflate, some inflate, and some migrate.  We also understand that with migration of the deeper tissues, the skin can stretch and sag but not as much as we used to think it did.  The modern facelift is a combination of procedures including lifting and tightening the deeper structures-though usually not the muscles-, filling in the deflated areas such as lips and tear troughs, and even liposuction in areas such as the neck if needed.  What this means is that the modern facelift is really a rejuvenation procedure which has to be customized for each patient and their individual areas of aging.  

Please consult with a board certified plastic surgeon who has experience in facial rejuvenation procedures to learn what options may be best for obtaining the results you desire.

Hope this helps.