Add to your Lifestyle Lift cost any revision surgery you require

Our practice specializes in revision facelifts. Revision facelifts are our most common procedure. I have seen a number of LifeStyle lift patients.

Their scarring was considerable and in some cases the location of incisions inexplicable. They had the same scars as they would have had from a full facelift, but only a little skin had been undermined. The results were subpar to say the least.

The cost to revise the work was greater than it would have been had they come here initially. The work was performed by doctors very early in their careers. In all cases, they chose the procedure because of the low price.

I have seen the website of LSL and the pictures were impressive. They looked nothing like the patients who came into my office. The revisional work I offered them consisted of completely redoing the facelift, tightening the jawline by much greater undermining, restoring volume to hollowed areas, and removing the LSL scars and placing the scars in less obtrusive areas, reconstructing the pulled earlobes and tragus, and restoring the posterior hairline.

In all fairness, I have only seen unhappy LSL patients, and it is possible there are people out there who are happy with their procedure.

As the popularity of cosmetic surgery has grown, so has the competition to attract more patients.  This has created price competition as well as a thriving market in medical tourism.  The expanded awareness has also spurred creativity in the marketing of "new" procedures designed to fill a certain price-point, which also can be marketed as "less-invasive" or "faster recovery" in order to appeal to patients who might be testing the waters of cosmetic surgery for the first time.

The Lifestyle Lift is one such procedure, marketed as a one-hour facelift, outpatient procedure.  It is essentially a short-scar, limited facelift.  Although under limited circumstances, this may provide an adequate improvement, for the majority of patients it is destined to fall short of expectations.

Most patients with significant signs of facial aging will require a more comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic approach to achieve an aesthetically-pleasing facial rejuvenation.  The forehead and brow, upper and lower eyelids, mid-face cheek and jowls, and neck areas all should be evaluated. A harmonious improvement often requires treatment of all areas simultaneously, rather than a piecemeal approach. 

A limited incision facelift like the Lifestyle Lift cannot address all these areas, and therefore while there may be some apparent improvement initially (often largely due to the appearance of enhanced facial volume due to post-operative swelling), the improvement will not be long-lasting, and the areas where necessary improvements were neglected will become more obvious.

A beautiful facelift should preserve and restore a patient's natural and more youthful appearance, and should never leave a patient looking "not like themselves."

It can be tempting to consider a low-cost procedure with a quick recuperation that bills itself as equal to a "traditional" facelift, but the cosmetic surgery market now more than ever requires a "buyer beware" approach.  It is of no use to throw good money after bad, rather than making the correct purchasing decision in the first place.

Make sure you know the difference between apples and oranges.  Remember that a procedure that costs more now but provides a longer-lasting improvement is a better value than a cheaper procedure that won't hold up over time.

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