Does facelift involve literally pulling the skin to tighten?

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A: Facelift tightens the fascia and structures underneath the skin

By William Portuese, MD - Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

A comprehensive face/neck lift involves tightening the fascia and structures underneath the skin in the face, the tightening of the muscles in the neck, removal of fat deposits both above and below the muscle in the neck, and then gently removing any excess skin that is present after the muscle and fascial... more

A: A midface lift could recruit more skin and perhaps allow scar improvement

By Wayne F. Larrabee, MD - Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

The typical facelift done to improve the neck, jowls, and cheeks would do little for the eyelid scars. A midface lift, however, done at a deeper level elevates the cheek almost directly upwards and can recruit tissue into the lower lids. This has been well shown by a number of studies including one by Quatela... more

A: facelift versus lower eyelid scar revision

By Harrison C. Putman III, MD - Peoria Facial Plastic Surgeon

It depends on how bad the scars appear and other factors such as lid tone, skin excess and the type of facelift you are going to have performed. If, for example the surgeon performs midface/ cheek lift with the facelift a fineline scar revision is certainly possible, but conservative laser resurfacing or... more

A: Eyelid Scars

By Richard W. Fleming, MD - Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

A facelift, which lifts the side of the face and the neck, would have no effect on lower eyelid scars. A check-lift, done through a lower eyelid incision, could be used to revise the lid scar if there is tension of the skin on the lower eyelid.

A: Lower lid scars

By Theodore Katz, MD - Philadelphia Plastic Surgeon

To answer your question directly, a facelift will likely do very little for your lower lid scars (and I assume some of these scars go onto the cheeks). Even fillers may be risky in the lower lid skin itself, but not on the cheek. You may consider some form of peel or better yet the Fraxel laser... more

A: Pulling Skin for a Facelift

By Christopher L. Hess, MD - Fairfax Plastic Surgeon

It's interesting that you should bring this up. I think that most people believe that this is what we do during a Facelift. In fact the first facelifts were just tightening of the skin. These were okay for the time but plastic surgeons learned that if you don't correct the underlying... more

A: Facelfit Procedure

By Farbod Esmailian, MD - Orange County Plastic Surgeon

A face lift ideally treats the neck and jowl area. It really does not come close to the lower eye lid region as far as removing skin. Skin is tightened and removed as is the deep layer called the SMAS, which is tightened as well. The skin that is removed is the excess skin around the ears, so... more

A: Face lift versus midface lift for removal of lower eyelid skin

By Otto Joseph Placik, MD - Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Generally a facelift does not pull up the eyelid skin. A midface lift, however, can significantly lift up the eyelid skin and facilitate removal of the lower eyelid redundancy.

A: A facelift is much more than pulling skin

By Sam Jejurikar, MD - Dallas Plastic Surgeon

Modern facelift techniques place much more emphasis on re-shaping, tightening, and adding volume to the deeper layer of tissue below the skin. This layer is called the SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) and is made up of the muscle and fatty layers of the face. This layer is pulled up and... more