Lifestyle Lift, Quicklift and Others Claim to be the Latest and Greatest

Buyer beware: a number of ‘limited incision’ and ‘quick recovery’ facelift procedures are currently marketed to patients with names like “The Quicklift”, “The Lifestyle Lift”, “The Weekend Facelift”, “The S Lift”, “The MACS Lift”, etc.  As with most things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.  In my opinion, the results of surgery are in direct proportion to the time and effort that the surgeon has put into the procedure.  Most of the procedures I have listed above cut corners to arrive at a shorter surgical time and quicker recovery (which, by the way, isn’t always the case), and most of them undertreat or do not at all improve the neck.  Additionally, ‘cutting corners’ in the neck almost always leads to distortion of the neck area skin, which often is quite readily apparent in ‘before and after’ images of these procedures with gimmicky names.  Look for abnormal and unnatural-appearing skin tension lines in the lateral neck as well as below and behind the ears.