Facelift: Q&A
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How Will Patients Age After a Facelift?
Once you have a Facelift, can you age naturally from that point or do you risk facial distortions without further maintenance? Can you elect to age naturally after a Facelift? Is a redo required?
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fadedactress
in northeast
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Aging should be normal after Facelift
Hi,
If you have a facelift done correctly you should age normally without any facial distortion. Depending on your age, you may elect to have a facelift 5 to 10 years after the first one and that is ok.
Whether you have a minilift or a full lower facelift will depend on how you look.
Best,
Dr.S.
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Aging after a Facelift
A patient will continue to age normally after a well-done facelift. Athough it has not been scientifically proven, after 35 years of facelift surgery I find that patients usually age at a slower pace because of the normal, undetectable deep scarring from the first facelift and the fact that they live a healthier life style.
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Natural aging process continues after face lift
The facial aging process continues to march on even after a facelift. A patient never has to undergo another facelift unless they want to. Providing the surgery was done correctly, they will always look better than they would if they never had the facelift done barring any further facial distortions or the aging process after a facelift. A redo is not required unless the patient wants to proceed with performing another facelift.
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Aging after a Facelift
Hopefully very nicely. But it is a patient specific question. Some want to look tight for years while other patients want that natural aging look. Good Luck!
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After a well done facelift, you will age normally
A well done facial rejuvenation will provide you with a balanced rejuvenated appearance. Most patients with typical aging changes do best with a combination of procedures that address all aspects of facial aging. This typically includes browlift, eyelid surgery, cheeklift, face and necklift, fat grafting, and possible dermabrasion or laser resurfacing. T
he aging process continues, but, having had the surgery you will always look better than you would have otherwise. You do not necessarily...
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Aging appearance with passage of time after a facelift.
Aging after a facelift can be effected by the technique. Clearly, it is important that you seek a skilled surgeon. Furthermore do not let financial concerns limit the procedure. For example if a facelift is performed with excessive tightness to the skin of the jawline only, time will cause the midface to sag over the lower face similar to the way a belly can sag over a tight belt. If all components of the face are lifted and supported with deep tissue work, it is more likely that you will...
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Your face should age normally after a well performed face lift.
The most important feature for obtaining a lasting, natural result after facelift surgery is vertical redrapement of your facial skin, and underlying soft-tissue. As we age, gravity has the effect of pulling facial tissues straight down to the floor, and natural facelift results may be achieved by avoiding a backward pull on the skin. This is what leads to the wind-blown stigma often associated with facelift surgery.
You should choose your facelift surgeon carefully. Look at many photos,...
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Face lift only turns the clock back but will stop it
Face lift will turn the clock back and then the aging starts. The aging process will be slower if patient starts better skin care, good diet, no smoking and sun screen.
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A good facelift sets the clock back, slows it, but does not stop it
The contemporary face-lift well performed will rebuild the face structurally to achieve a natural result . It also will better support the overlying tissues so that the face ages more slowly and harmoniously.
However, the effect of aging will never stop but can be slowed.
No one needs the initial face-lift or will they need a redo, but many after years will seek an update.
Dr. Mayl
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Aging after a Facelift
Theoretically, a facelift turns back the clock but you continue to age at the same rate you aged before. By this theory, you should need nothing else done unless you really want to stop aging and continue to look as you did at a specific time in your life. In reality, it has not usually been working this way. There are several reasons.
First, most standard facelifts do not return the tissues to where they started (they rotate them backwards) and they remove some tissue in areas where the...
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Highlands Plastic Surgeon
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After a facelift, you continue to age but you will always look better
After a facelift, you continue to age but you will always look better than a twin that never had it done. Of course, you have to make sure a facelift is what is going to make you look good. I think that when facelifts are redone more than once, the more you do the more you can look distorted. When you age with a facelift, some have found that you can have what people call the lateral sweep affect. This occurs when your face is pulled laterally and what keeps it up is also more lateral...
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Aging after facelift
Dear Faded,
Not only CAN you continue to age naturally, you can't stop aging naturally after a facelift, or any other time. Having a facelift sets your appearance back about a decade. Your natural aging process, which is dependent on many factors, most importantly, your genetics, will continue from that point. "Redos" are never "required", but may be elected and are typically done ten to fifteen years after the initial procedure. Good luck!
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Aging after Facelift
This is a great question and one that is asked of me frequently. In the words of Dr. Gaylon McCullough, "Life is a conveyor belt, and that conveyor belt keeps moving". A Facelift will obviously not stop the aging process, but from an aesthetic standpoint, will put a patient in a better position as life progresses. As far as the need to have a secondary Facelift down the road, the decision is up to the patient. I estimate that as many as 50% of my Facelifts are revisions from...
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A facelift will last for the rest of your life
This is the pat answer we give to patients and is true. However, your face, like the rest of you, will keep on aging. Nothing can hold the clock still. A better explanation is that if you have a twin sister and you have a Facelift you might look a decade younger. In 10 years you will still look younger, you will both age at the same rate (if you practice the same sun and nutrition habits). If you want to maintain a youthful look, you might need surgery in the future. Other...
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