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Effectiveness of Quick Lift Compared to a Traditional Face Lift?
What is the effectiveness and the cost of a quick face lift as compared to a traditional face lift? How permanent are each of the results?
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Quick Lift versus Traditional Face Lift
There are many “marketing type” of facelifts, however, there are no short cuts in doing a true classic facelift in which the recovery is truly 10-14 days. Anything less than that cannot really be called a facelift and is often done by non-Board Certified Plastic Surgeons. In medicine and in life, “you get what you pay for.”
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Quicklift vs. Traditional Lift
Quicklifts tend not to improve the SMAS. Therefore, it is not cost effective for younger patients will need to repeat the procedure much more often than a traditional lift. For a patient who needs substantial work, then a Quicklift will generally not achieve the desired results.
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Effectiveness of Quick Lift Compared to a Traditional Face Lift
The amount of correction with a Quicklift alone is less than that of a facelift alone, so you are likely looking at repeating the Quicklift in the time the traditional facelift will last. If you do no t need a full facelift, then the Quicklift will work, but so would a normal cheek lift without the hype.
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Quick lift vs traditional facelift.
As a general rule, as we age our tissues become less elastic, less strong and visible signs of aging are more pronounced, ie, neck banding, poor jaw definition/jowling, loss of cheek fullness. If you are on the younger side (40's) an modified or limited facelift may give excellent results and have good longevity because the tissues are strong and hold up well. These lifts go by many different names: LifestyleLift, Smart lift, Quicklift, etc but all do essentially the...
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Quick lift?
Make sure you choose your surgeon based on what he/she can do, not what he/she calls the procedure. Your surgeon should be well versed in many different techniques of face lift so he/she can make the right recommendation for you. Don't fall for some gimmick. No procedure is "patented" and many of these SmartLift, QuickLift, LifestyleLift, WhateverLifts are just marketing gimmicks. Also, make sure your surgeon is really a surgeon and not a...
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Effectiveness of Quick Lift vs Traditional lift
For a patient who needs minimal rejuvenation a quick lift or minilift may be appropriate and effective. These procedures are quicker, provide less improvement, and results that do not last as long. Patients do tend to address facial aging when they are younger, but more traditional lifts are usually necessary. These techniques take more time and recovery is longer, but the results are much better and the duration of improvement is significantly longer.
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Quick Lift vs Traditional Face Lift
This is a complex question since the surgeon should match the procedure to each individual patient's needs. A younger patient with good skin and early aging may do well with a lesser procedure (Quick Lift) but a more extensive procedure would be more appropriate for an older patient with lax skin and drooping facial structures. Many of the "Lunch Time" and "Lift Style" face lift variations are more marketing gimmicks so proceed with caution and get several opinions.
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Benefit of quick lift or Lite Lift over traditional facelifts
I have experience with traditional facelifts for 25 years. I now do almost exclusively Lite Lifts:
most of the doctors writing the answers have no knowledge or experience with what a quick lift or Lite Lift are. Unfortunately all of the doctors below are writing our of ignorance
These lifts are verticle lifts, some with a MACS component
you can research these online
they all address the SMAS
they have less bruising, swelling,...
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Mini-lift v full facelift
Lots of the mini-lifts advertised are marketing gimmicks because patients are more likely to undergo less invasive, less expensive surgery with a shorter recovery time than the full facelift. However, any of the more limited procedures will have shorter durations in terms of effectiveness than the full facelift . This is certainly a tradeoff that patients must make but with full information. I find that many non-plastic surgeons promote the more limited procedures because the operation...
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Mini lift vs. traditional lift.
The reason those of us with a lot of experience do traditional lifts is because of superior long lasting results. Some patients with only minimal cheek excess can get by with a mini lift.
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Focus on the name of the surgeon rather than the name of the surgery.
Techniques are only as good as the surgeon who performs the procedure. Many "named" types of facelifts represent marketing efforts by businesses. To handle the business, surgeons are recruited as essentially part of a franchise. The fact that a surgical technique can be taught in a weekend and performed quickly and possibly cheaply does not necessarily make it an appropriate surgical choice. What type of surgeon might sign up for such a business model?...
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Mini facelifts offer mini results that last a mini length of time
If you have the earliest most minimal of facial aging signs, your money would be better spent IMO on skin care, IPL, Botox, and fillers. Once you have visible laxity in the neck, jowls along the jawline, and gravitational descent of the cheeks, a real facelift is the best, longest lasting way to go. Just make sure you understand that no 2 surgeons are alike and that the result depends entirely on your own starting point and on whom you have do the surgery.
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Quick Lift
You can consider most of the "new" facelift procedures as mere MARKETING ploys. I strongly believe you would be best served to decide what bothers you or what changes you would like to see, then find a well qualified, experienced board certified plastic surgeon to discuss treatment options.
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Quick or Mini lift vs full face lift
All of the minimally invasive facelifts offer modest improvement, at best. They may be less expensive but if the results don't last it was not money well spent. If you are not ready for a full face lift consider some fractionated C02 resurfacing. You will get a degree of non-surgical tightening and your skin will look great. Hope this helps! Good luck!!!
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Quick Lift may not last
The Quick Lift, Lifestyle Lift, Swift Lift and others are not newly invented procedures. but minor variations to a facelift, usually fitting into the category of a mini-lift. I separate facial aging and the best procedure to address it into two categories. Younger (age 40's to 50's) do best with a mini-lift, while older patients typically need a traditional or more aggressive lift. A mini-lift may effectively treat older patients, but within a few months the results...
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Marketing is the biggest difference in facelift names
Quick lift, Simoni lift, MACS lift, New York lift, Mini Lift, Vector lift, Lifestyle lift...... the list goes on. It is all marketing. Frankly, the less you do the less the results last, despite claims to the contrary. I would spend more time with a an experienced board-certified plastic surgeon looking at before and afters that are long term (every one looks fabulous at 4 months) and less time with the marketing efforts of a "named" lift.
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