Southlake Lower Face Lift doctors
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Michael A. Bogdan, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon
410 N Carroll Avenue Suite 170, Southlake |
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Vishnu Rumalla, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon
1870 Keller Parkway Suite 100, Keller |
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Michel Siegel, MD
Houston Facial Plastic Surgeon
7700 San Felipe Street Suite 420, Houston |
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1 answer |
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Scott E. Kasden, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon
1422 Main Street Suite 274, Southlake |
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1 answer |
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Walter D. Gracia, MD
Arlington Plastic Surgeon
1204 5th Avenue, Fort Worth |
Recent Answers
The pictures make the results look pretty similar. What are the differences in operation?
You can try to keep things separate by discussing the lower face (from the cheekbone to the jawline) and the neck (from the jawline to the clavicle), but they are closely related. If a patient only has muscle bands in the neck with minimal skin laxity, it is possible to do a truly isolated neck lift (by tightening the muscles, and allowing the skin to re-distribute)--but most of the time patients also have significant skin laxity. When you need to remove excess skin from the neck, a scar will be placed in-front of the ear (to avoid "bunching" of the skin infront of the ear), and that means the cheek has been undermined. Because of this, the neck operation has crossed-over into the lower face, and you might as well address the jawline. It is important to discuss your desired outcomes with your surgeon, and listen to how they plan to achieve your goals - it should make sense. How the operation is named is a bit superfluous.
Dr.B
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
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.
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?
Zsa Zsa-there is no one size fits all when it comes to face lifting. If it does not make sense to you, you may need another opinion.
Dr Siegel
