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How Effective is the Acculift?
How much does acculift cost? How effective is it? How long does it last?
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Acculift
The Acculift may satisfy personal goals, but see pictures of patients 6-12 months post-op who looked like you before their surgery. Effectiveness depends on the severity of your facial aging.
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"Acculift" results compared to traditional facelifting.
You pretty much get what you pay for. If a person has a little excess skin and jowling vs. much more combined with neck excess, the results will be different. See real patients of the surgeon at least 6 months after surgery and make sure they were as aged as you before!
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Acculift Not a Substitute for Face Lift
Acculift probably not the best option for those in their 70's and older
No the Acculift does not replace the need for fillers or face lifting procedures. It is NOT a breakthrough procedure, rather using existing technology a small amount of local anesthesia to numb the treatment areas followed by 1 to 2 mm openings. Through these openings, a laser removes fat (laser lipolysis - several companies offer machines that do this) and there is some limited tightening of...
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Acculift
Most of these -lifts are marketing ploys that persons have come up with. I am sure there are differences between them, but the one thing that probably they all have in common is that they are not long-lasting and probably will not achieve the results that you are looking for. Doctors, usually not plastic surgeons pay a "marketing" fee to a company that advertises and they direct patients to them. Similar mini procedures have been around for many years with similar usually less...
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Laser long term facial skin tightening is yet to be proven
Techniques that are "generic" typically have limited durability unless they are combined with proven more effective procedures.
For instance, neck fat contouring can be done in many ways, but if the skin is loose and/or the muscles are split, the good result only comes when you close the muscles and tighten the skin. If you limit the technique to liposuction alone, the result afterward will be different but not better esthetically.
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