Liquid face lift vs Surgical face lift

Otto Joseph Placik, MD answers: What is a liquid facelift?

Is a liquid facelift safer then facelift surgery?  Can i get almost surgery-like results from one?


Otto Joseph Placik, MD
9 months ago

Liquid face lifts tend to camouflage the effects of aging without achieving a true anatomical repositioning of aging tissues. The results tend to be short term and need to be repeated. They are excellent methods of accomplishing rapid, minimal down time corrections with relatively low risk. Over the long term, it may cost more than surgery.

  • Liquid face lifts utilize injections to achieve the appearance of a more youthful face. Generally, it involves a combination of fillers and chemodenervation (botox like) agents.
  • Movement wrinkes are treated with Botox.
  • Bony/fatty atrophy, depressions, lines and grooves, furrows, folds can be filled with a variety of fillers.

Surgical face lifts ar longer term corrections that intially tend to cost more and pose greater risks.

Surgical face lifts address the bony skeleton, fatty deposits, muscle postions, and skin laxity. 

 

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