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Is Cheek Lift the Same Thing As Lower Facelift?
If a Cheek lift is not the same, what does the lower facelift improve? Is the recovery as hard as a full Facelift? I'm in need of Necklift at age 42.
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diane42
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Cheek Lift, Lower Facelift, Neck Lift-What do they Mean?
Unfortunately our business is not unlike other small businesses in that we all try to be innovative and separate ourselves from "the herd." So procedures that are standard are given new names for marketing purposes. So let's look at the different procedures.
The cheek area is pretty self explanatory. To lift this area the tissue is elevated off the facial bones under the cheeks and suspend, via sutures, to the temporal tissues. The lay term is a "Cheek Lift." But...
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Cheek lift versus Neck lift
There are lots of names and different terminology for various surgical procedures on the face. A cheek lift is commonly known as a midface lift. This is less common than a facelift which helps the lateral face, jawline and neck. Midface or cheek lift has been replaced in part by fat grafting or other dermal filler injection. Facelift is the gold standard for defining your jawline and smoothing your neck. Good luck.
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A cheek-neck lift is really the same thing as a facelift
Different doctors have different definitions of what they call a cheek lift or a cheek-neck lift. In my book, this is really a facelift. Sometimes patients aren't ready to admit they need a facelift so cheek-neck lift is easier to "swallow." Neck can be done by themselves for fullness and extra skin under the chin. This has a more limited incision. But once you are looking to correct jowls as well, its really a facelift.
For younger patients, sometimes up to mid 50's we can get...
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Is a Cheek Lift the Same Thing As a Lower Facelift
The cheek lift which is a surgical procedure has been out of favor and replaced by dermal fillers. The fillers lift the cheeks and deemphasize the nasolabial folds. A lower face lift is a surgical procedure but can be delayed indefinitely if fillers are used in the jowl area and for the perimental lines.
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Cheek lift and lower face lift are not the same
A cheek lift is a procedure that is often done through the eyelid or through a temple incision. Often times it includes an incision in the mouth. It is a lot of work for very little results in my opinion. Lower face lifts pull up some of the neck and the jowls and the lower part of the face. So the results are not the same. Sometimes a face lift can be taken over the smiling muscles to lift the middle part of the face. But the best option for the middle part of the face is a face lift...
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Facelift, lower facelift and cheek lift
The difficult part of this question is that different people use different terminology. A cheek lift usually equates with a midface lift which is only appropriate for a small subpopulation of young people with early facial aging and is almost never employed in my practice. A lower facelift is a neck lift +/- midface work. In reality the neck lift requires near the complete facelift dissection anyway and does not save you recovery. The danger in performing a lower face...
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Cheeklift and lower face lift
A cheeklift refers to rejuvenation via suspension of your cheeks (the region from below your eyes eyes to your laugh lines and corner of your lips. A lower face lift refers to rejuvenation via suspension of the neck and jaw line. Deeper plane and mutli-vector facelifts can address both the cheek and lower face/neck. The term "facelift" can potentially apply to any part of the face and therefore can refer to any surgery addressing...
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A CheekLift and a Facelift are Different Operations
A cheek or midface lift is a different operation than what most people perceive as a facelift. While it is one of the numerous 'facelifting' operations, it is done for improving sagging tissue of the cheeks and tissues directly below the eye. It can also help soften a deep lip-cheek groove or fold. The incisions for a midface lift are placed along the lower eyelids and out in a crow's feet line. A facelift is really a neck and jowl operation that tightens the neck and...
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Cheek Lift vs. Lower Face Lift
A lower face lift mostly helps the area of the lower face, jaw line and neck. The improvement is mostly the lateral aspect of the lower face. The middle part around the nose and mouth are not affected very much. The mid and upper face are not helped. The nasolabial folds are not helped much.
A cheek lift helps mostly the mid face and the area around the mouth and nose and cheekbones. A cheek lift is more vertical and results in a look more like...
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Clarification of Face Lifts, Cheek Lifts, and Neck Lifts
The terms used to describe procedures for facial rejuvenation can be a bit confusing. A "face lift" can have several meanings, so it is important to clarify with your surgeon exactly what will be corrected. In general a cheek-neck lift is the same as a face lift. Informing a patient that he/she needs a cheek-neck lift is a little more pleasant than telling them that they need a facelift. A lower facelift, cheek lift and midfacelift are procedures performed to address...
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Let's clarify what you need
If you need improvement in neck laxity, double chin, or visible bands then a neck lift alone is a possibility. However many patients have some jowling and/ or laxity along the jawline and need some vertical lifting in this area- a lower facelift or face/neck lift combination.
A cheek lift or midface lift can be included as part of a facelift by extending the technique, or as a separate procedure, and there are several approches that can be utilized: endoscopic transtemporal, lower lid...
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Facelift vs Cheeklift
Although there are variations of all these procedures, a facelift is done to rejuvenate the tissue from the top of the ear to the corner of the mouth and down over the side of the face and neck. A cheek lift will elevate the tissue in the triangle below the eye. It sounds like you want a facelift. Terminology is not important -- just be specific about what features will be changed and how this will be accomplished.
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A cheek lift fixes a different area than a facelift.
A facelift improves the jawline and neck. A cheek lift improves the fullness of the cheek and lower eyelid. It sounds like a facelift is what you need, but see an experienced facial surgeon and let him show you the differences.
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Face lift, Cheek Lift, Vertical Mid-Facelift, Low Face Lift, Neck Lift etc
It is obvious even to the uninitiated that Face and neck cosmetic surgery is a complex field.
Not only are facelifts known by the ZONE they are supposed to be lifting (cheek, face, neck etc), but also by the layer of depth of the lift (subpriosteal (bone lining), deep, composite, SMAS, MACS , skin only etc), by the devices used to do the lift (ribbon, barbed suture, thread) as well as by a bunch of snazzy marketing names followed by - Lift (Day,Thread,Lifestyle, S etc etc).
Strictly...
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Face Llifts
Cheek lift is realy a MID FACE LIFT, simillar to a mini face lift
Standard face lift adresses the cheeks, the jowles, and the neck.
Do not get confused with the terminology.
When sitting with your PLASTIC SUGEON the conversation should be in PLAIN understandable english. No medical jargon that you do not understand.
ASK what he/she means, What, Where, How.
For a face lift you must have at least 2 consults before surgery with the surgeon not the staff
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
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