Mclean Facelift doctors
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Rondi Kathleen Walker, MD
Washington Plastic Surgeon
3301 New Mexico Avenue, N.W. Foxhall Square, Suite 252, Washington |
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Burton M. Sundin, MD
Richmond Plastic Surgeon
7611 Forest Ave Suite 210, Richmond |
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Adam Tattelbaum, MD
Washington DC Plastic Surgeon
3203 Tower Oaks Blvd 2nd Fl, Rockville |
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Gloria Duda, MD
McLean Plastic Surgeon
6845 Elm St # 708, McLean |
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Timothy J. Germain, MD
Mclean Plastic Surgeon
1355 Beverly Road Suite 220, McLean |
Recent Answers
I've had both upper and lower eye lid surgery, arm reduction and a tummy tuck. I am a smoker and am 51 years old. I've healed fine in all cases. Why can't I have a neck or facelift?
It is possible for you to have a facelift if you smoke. Your excellent recovery from your previous surgeries is a positive sign.
Smoking decreases the blood supply to the skin by constricting the vessels, and this makes the healing time longer and also increases your chances for skin loss. Many surgeons will not perform a facelift on a patient who smokes for these reasons. I will perform the face and neck lift but I do much less skin undermining and tightening. The patient also understands that they are at increased risk.
I am worried about how the skin can be pulled up in a facelift (back to the cheek area), and then after the underlying work, it is redraped and tightened, so how does the skin "reattach", and what is the protection for not taking too much skin so the mouth doesn't close, etc.
During a "facelift" procdure the underlying tissues are "injured" in a controlled fashioned, as the platysma and deeper tissues are tightened. The overlying skin has been surgically lifted off these tissues also creating a "controlled injury". The body then heals these area by laying down sheets of collagen - which are the bodies own natural glue. The collagen is smooth, and provides the facial skin a new smooth not overly tight look.
