SMAS elevation

Christopher L. Hess, MD answers: Where do jowls go when SMAS muscle is lifted and tightened?

Do they move outward or up next to the sides of the mouth and just hang? Would lifting that muscle cause the lower face to appear heavier?


Christopher L. Hess, MD
21 days ago

The SMAS or submuscular aponeurotic system is actually two layers of a fibrous type tissue the sandwich the muscles of facial expression.  Elevation this layer, such that occurs during the extended SMAS facelift that I perform moves the jowls back to the midcheek region from which they've come.  With mild to moderate jowls SMAS plication may be okay.  But with heavy jowls I think an extended SMAS elelvation moves the jowls much higher lotheh midcheekregoopm

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