Fort Worth Lower Face Lift doctors

	Vishnu Rumalla, MD Dallas Plastic Surgeon 1870 Keller Parkway Suite 100, Keller		1 answer
	Jonathan Heistein, MD Fort Worth Plastic Surgeon 800 8th Ave Ste 240, Fort Worth		1 answer
	Jay Burns, MD Dallas Plastic Surgeon 9101 North Central Expressway #600, Dallas
	Wilberto Cortes, MD Houston Plastic Surgeon 5000 Westheimer Suite #602, Houston
	Walter D. Gracia, MD Arlington Plastic Surgeon 1204 5th Avenue, Fort Worth

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Sutures for Lower Facelift and Neck Lift The plastic surgeon I am considering for a lower facelift and neck lift indicates he uses a rolling sutures around the ear and behind the tragus. Is this the typical way sutures are done for same surgery, or isn't it? Or are the fine, tiny sutures some doctors do, produce a more invisible suture line? This piece of the surgery is extremely important to me. I need to find out of this is the norm. Thanks

A: Sutures used in facelift

The most important part of the facelift is how the muscles are tightened under the skin, where the incisions are placed and how the skin is re-draped. I use small 5-0 and 6-0 nylon suture to close the top of the skin, These sutures are on top of several buried absorbable sutures which remove the tension. The nylon sutures are removed in several days. Good luck with your surgery.

Vishnu Rumalla, MD

Dallas Plastic Surgeon

Sagging Jowls - Is a Mid-Face Lift Needed with Lower Lift? I am 54, but look slightly younger. I don't mind the normal aging around my eyes, etc. but my sagging jowls bother me. My Plastic Surgeon says he would not recommend having a lower face lift without at least also doing a mid-face lift, as well as a brow lift. Now he has agreed he would feel comfortable doing the lift without a brow lift, but says he would definitely recommend a mid-face lift with the lower face lift. Is it really necessary to also have a mid face lift with a lower face lift?

A: Lower facelift with or without midface lift

As long as you understand the expectations with each approach, you and your surgeon should make the decision together about which procedures to do. You should make sure that a lower facelift to fix your jowls would not expose or make more prominent another sign of aging. I think that it is unusual to have isolated jowls without other areas that sag, and so I try to address all of the problem areas with one surgery to provide the most natural results.

Jonathan Heistein, MD

Fort Worth Plastic Surgeon