What is a Featherlift?

 Most of the thread lifts have been taken off the market for a variety of complications. We have removed many of them when performing a facelift procedure. Thread lifts are only  temporarily tightening skin. Thread lifts do not address tightening muscles or removal of fatty deposits in the neck.  is A comprehensive facial rejuvenation involves tightening the facial muscles and jowls, removal of fatty deposits above and below the  platysma muscle in the neck, a platysma plasty, and conservatively tightening excess face and neck skin. For many examples of facial rejuvenation in our practice, please see the link below to our facelift  photo gallery a

The featherlift is a variant of the thread lift. This procedure uses sutures with barbs that hold the soft tissue in a suspended position. Unfortunately, with time, the barbs lose their traction and the patient develops recurrent facial skin sag. For this reason, the procedure has been widely criticized. The procedure has significant expense and is associated with minimal improvement.

It’s not unusual for these types of procedures to be given names that have marketing value. Descriptive terms like; smart, lunch hour and laser are added to standard terms like facelift to make them sound as if they represent new technology. In reality, this leads to significant confusion amongst patients.

This is one of many ideas that had a lot of publicity and great hype but  the results (or lack thereof) just did not support the expectation of patients and surgeons alike. Essentially "thread" lifting or " barbed suture" lifting is the concept. They are placed through small "stab incisions" and threaded through and tied under tension. Of course as would be expected the tiny barbs "cheese wired" through the soft tissue and the results fade in a matter of several weeks to several months. I personally have removed more than I have placed, from dissatisfied patients with suture migration and almost immediately abandoned this technique.  Contour threads ("Thread lift") have been removed from the market and APTOS threads which are the barbed sutures used for the "Featherlift") are also history. Save your money and consider a real procedure with longevity from a board certified plastic surgeon.