Facelift or Lifestyle Lift for jowls?

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8 answers to “Facelift or Lifestyle Lift for jowls?”

A: Facelift is longer lasting than a mini-lift

By William Portuese, MD - Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

A comprehensive face/neck lift will address all the issues respective of the jaw line, the jowls, excess neck skin, fat, and tightening facial muscles. A mini lift will give mini and temporary results. It is best to make sure that patients are not overweight and in excellent health, and then perform a proper... more

A: See a plastic surgeon who is a facelift specialist.

By Toby G. Mayer, MD - Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

The best way to solve your problem is by seeing an experienced facelift surgeon who can give you the advantages and disadvantages of doing procedures differently. Jowls are usually not corrected in my view with the minilifts or any of the catchy named minilifts. You will get more for your money with a... more

A: Not so excited about the Lifestyle facelift.

By Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD - Los Angeles Oculoplastic surgeon

Dear Gbarbie4 I see a number of patients every week who are unhappy with the results on their proprietary facelift. Many of these procedures are heavily promoted on tv and are otherwise heavily promoted. Many of these surgeries are surprisingly expensive when you consider what is not included... more

A: Look for the experienced facelift surgeon who can give you the result you are looking for

By Frank P. Fechner, MD - Worcester Facial Plastic Surgeon

It sounds to me that you have somewhat heavy jowl and neck tissues, features which put you in the "likely dissatisfied" group for a mini-lift. You may benefit most from a deep-plane face and neck lift with repositioning and sculpting of tissues. It is certainly worthwhile to invest more time (and may... more

A: LifeStyle Lift is essentially a mini-face lift

By Ricardo Izquierdo, MD - Chicago Plastic Surgeon

The "LifeStyle Lift" is essentially a mini-face lift: shortened scars, less skin elevation, and little to no effect on the neck area. Their description of your problem suggests that you would need liposuction of the neck and jowl area, tightening of the resultant skin via a traditional facelift... more

A: It depends on your surgeon

By Samson Lee, MD - Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

A lifestyle lift is just a marketed term for a minilift. What is more important is who is performing your procedure. A lifestyle lift is usually a plication lift meaning that they use sutures to move tissue, but do not actually move the deeper layers physically. It's theoretically safer to do a plication, but... more

A: Facelift vs. Lifestyle Lift

By Brent Moelleken, MD - Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

You will, in my opinion, achieve your best result with a volume adjusting, volume replacing multivector facelift performed by a highly skilled surgeon than an inexpensive LifeStyle Lift performed by a novice or non board certified doctor. I personally believe the LifeStyle Lift is particularly weak... more

A: Consider Vaser Liposelection

By Edmond A. Zingaro, MD - San Francisco Plastic Surgeon

It is impossible to say without seeing you. However, you are young enough that you may not need a facelift yet. You may consider Vaser Liposelection of the area just below your chin and, perhaps, jowl regions too. Add Titan treatments both before and after lipo to tighten the skin. I have had excellent luck... more