SMAS Facelift: Q&A
Ask a QuestionDoes Lifting and Tightening the SMAS Cause Cheeks to Flatten?
A doctor told me that tightening the SMAS causes the cheek to flatten. Is this true and if so how do you avoid that? Also, if you just do a composite necklift which address the lower third of the face is the SMAS involved?
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SMAS Facelifts Augments Cheeks
Just the opposite of what you were told. The SMAS lift re-positions your cheek fat over your cheek bones to augment, not flatten it. A composite lift is losing favor among many plastic surgeons due to the very long recovery time. It moves tissues at a deep plane level close to the bone in many areas lifting all tissues more superficial including the SMAS. As this is not the location for tissue aging it makes less sense than turning back anatomically the aging process
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SMAS Facelift and Cheek Flattening
The use of the SMAS does not cause the cheek to flatten. The use of the high SMAS procedure will actually increase the fullness over the cheekbones and help to restore the heart-shaped face of youth. The use of the SMAS will also allow for for improvement of the lower face and neck.
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SMAS plus adding volume to the cheeks
No, SMAS should not cause the cheeks to flatten. But keep in mind that the cheeks are not addressed with lifting during SMAS. If your cheeks need to be rejuvenated, that will require add volume to them with fat, Sculptra or fillers.
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SMAS and cheek flattening
It depends upon where the muscle is sutured. The important thing, if a patient has any qualms about which area of the cheek would be tightened and flattened, is to discuss them with her plastic surgeon.
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Smas facelift
Liftint he soft tissue of the face by suing the SMAS doesn't flatten the cheeks but often autoaugments them.
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SMAS Elevation Creates Voluptuous NOT Flat Faces.
It is skin tightening across cheeks that causes flat faces. A advanced technique SMAS Facelift should uses the SMAS layer as a vector to carry the facial fat to more superior positions, enhancing cheeks, periorbital, and cheekbone regions. This result actually looks more full and voluptuous, with little tension applied to the skin for the actual lift. Facelifts that rely upon tension on the skin move little of the facial fat, and when pulled over structures such as the...
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SMAS cause cheeks to flatten
As the majority of the expert posters have stated NO! The SMAS if done correctly can not flatten the cheek, just the opposite happens. Please re think the question.
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SMAS facelift do not cause cheeks to flatten
The cheeks themselves are not flattened with SMAS tightening. However, there can be a slight flattening effect in the area in front of the ear due to tightening of the SMAS itself. This is not over the cheek area; it is just in front of the ear. The SMAS is involved with a comprehensive face/neck lift. The SMAS is not involved with a neck lift only procedure.
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SMAS Facelift do NOT flatten cheeks
The cheek or the malar eminence is a bony structure which short of being hit well with a powerful blunt object cannot be flattened. There is no way in which pulling on the SMAS will lead to cheek flattening and I must only conclude that either your surgeon was inarticulate or you may have misunderstood him.
There is a large number of SMAS manipulation based Facelift procedures all of which lift the neck and sagging face structures and put them back in their attractive youthful...
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SMAS face lift
The SMAS in a face lift is the vital structure that allows the tightening of the facial structures. There are many ways to deal with the SMAS depending on the experience and knowledge of the surgeon.
When contemplating and planning for a face lift, the amount of subcutaneous tissue is taken in consideration as well.
The SMAS can be used to give bulk to the cheek and infact there are techniques that the SMAS can lift the cheeck.
If there is not enough subcutaneous tissue...
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