Is Cheek Lift or Neck Lift a Regular Facelift?

The terminology of the procedure is not nearly as important as which areas you and your surgeon have agreed need to be addressed. All areas of the face can be addressed with surgery and your surgoen may simply call all of the separate procedures a facelift. I suggest sitting down with your surgeon to make sure all of the places on your face and neck are appropriately treated at the time of your surgery.

Sounds like you need to sit down again with your Surgeon and have them go over in detail what they will be doing, why they will be doing it and how it's going to be done. This will go a long way towards helping ease your mind and prepare you for your surgery. In general: 1. Facelift : addresses the lower third of the face including jowls, lower cheeks and to some degree the neck and cheek folds. Incision lengths and location will vary based on specific technique. 2. Cheek Lift aka... more

A "traditional facelift" can improve problems in both the cheeks and the neck through the usual scar in front of, and extending behind the ears. However, the cheeks and the neck can also be individually improved by incisions below the lower eyelid or behind the ears. Most surgeons can combine the "facelift" to include the neck with the same scar and some improvement in the nasolabial fold. If your cheeks require more than what can be accomplished with the facelift... more

It is essential that you have a very directed conversation with your potential surgeon. These terms really mean anything the surgeon wants them to mean so don't assume that you understand what they are talking about. Generally, a facelift means a lower face lift and a lower neck resuspension. Once the sides of the face are open for the lower facelift, doing the additional work to resuspend the neck is not that great. I generally will not recommend a facelift unless the personal need the... more

The term "facelift" carries many negative connotations for patients these days. They are scared to look operated on, and don't think they are "raedy" for something that seems drastic. A cheek and neck lift is basically the same thing under a different name that focuses on what patients want, ie. loss of jowls, a smooth clean jawline and removal of fat under the chin and a nicer more angular neck. The point is that the name doesn't matter as much as how the... more

A cheek lift, neck lift and facelift can all mean the same thing.  They can also mean separate things.  The terms neck lift and facelift are often used interchangeably but actually mean different things.  A neck lift is a procedure isolated to rejuvenating the neck.  A cheek lift is an isolated procedure to lift the cheek area.  A facelift will address both areas.

A neck lift is a separate operation, which addresses the lower half of the neck. It is the lower half component of a face/neck lift. A cheek lift is no more than a SMAS temporal tuck upper portion of the facelift. A comprehensive face/neck lift will include a cheek lift and a neck lift.

Facelift: Rejuvenates both the cheeks and neck A facelift includes lifting and tightening of the lax skin of the face and neck and should also include lifting and tightening of the SMAS ( the tissue enveloping the facial muscles). If you have loose skin of the cheeks and neck, neck banding, deep folds from the nose to the corners of the mouth (nasolabial folds), and prominent folds starting at the corner of the mouth (Marionette lines) this is probably what you need. Cheeklift: The... more

You need to have defined what your "model" includes. There are many types of lifts. Each type can be done with different nuances depending on your particular problem. Your model should be customized to fit your needs.

A full face lift include face and neck lift with or without brow,eye lid and midface lifts. The midface lift (or cheek lift) is used in patient with marked ptosis of the cheek. It is done through the lower eye lid together with a lower bleph. It is a very powerful too when used bu a surgeon very familiar with this procedure. Some other face lift techniques involve a deep plane face lift that does not require the lower lid approach but more extensive deep tissue dissection. Each procedure... more

 A traditional full face lift lifts the neck and lower cheek, not the area over the cheekbone. To lift that area requires a true upper cheek lift. This is normally done thru the lower eyelid or the temple.

The term regular facelift may include the forehead, eyes, cheeks, jawline and neck as parts of the face that are treated by surgery. A cheek lift or midface lift can be less invasive using an endoscope and hiding the incisions(scarless) in the hairline. A necklift includes the gobbler neck and jowling that are removed in restoring a smooth neck and jawline. Each of these procedures take less time to perform by the surgeon.