Featherlift

These procedures are rarely performed anymore. They tended to be popular about 5 years when several of these operations were performed using a variety of sutures with barbs or other techniques to snag and lift the skin with relatively minimal surgery.

Several different technologies were concurrently promoted such as Contour threads or Aptos threads, etc. Companies or surgeons developed marketing terms to desribe operations performed with these devices.

For the most part these have been abandoned by most plastic surgeons. In many instances these permanent sutures failed to achieve their intended goals, became visible, painful, or acomplished undesireable results.

The tide has turned towards mini-face lifts for now, but new technologies are always being developed.

Featherlifts, also known as threadlifts, contour lift, one stitch lift are basically barbed sutures which strive to suspend the deeper tissues. It has been removed from the market by the FDA. Why doesn't it work? - The only way to reposition tissue permanently is to lift up a layer of tissue and have it scar in place with existing tissue. A suture can not hold up your whole face with time - Often times there is excessive skin which must be redraped in order to rejuvenate the face - Tissues have stretchy qualities can stretch over time nullifying the effects of the suture placed Featherlifts have been replaced by more sophisticated lifts based on sound anatomic and mechanical principles.