In my experience, patients who have had this procedure...

In my experience, patients who have had this procedure are quite unhappy, primarily because the results are not as dramatic as they had hoped or they do not last as long as they were told. I have had several patients come to me for a redo facelift 6 months or less after having a Lifestyle Lift performed by another surgeon.

My recommendation: this is not a procedure I would advocate for my patients. However, a standard facelift, performed properly by a Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon can provide a wonderful, lasting result. Set up a consult or two with surgeons in your area with the proper credentials, look at some of their before and after pictures, and pick the one that you feel the most comfortable with.

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The Lifestyle lift is only a mini facelift and as such will give less of a result than a properly done facelift.  The result also will typically last at the very best for 3 to 5 years.  Some patients who have had this surgery feel that their result was gone after only a week!   My recommedation is to save until the cost of a real facelift is acceptable and then go to the right surgeon.  This is actually less expensive than doing a Lifestyle lift and having to do another surgery soon thereafter. 

Also know that the Lifestyle lift is generally not being performed by Board Certified Plastic Surgeons but rather by doctors from other specialties who want to boost their volume of cosmetic surgery and thus sign up as Lifestyle lift doctors.

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