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Quick Lift Side Effects?
What are the long term side effects of a Quicklift? How long do they last? Will my face age normally after the surgery?
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Annie57
in Reno, Nev.
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Quicklift outcome
The long term side effects of the Quicklift are the same for all facelifting procedure, it is essentially just name given to a type of SMAS plication lift. Your face will continue ageing but on average (and depending on your skin laxity now) you can expect at least 5-10 years resetting the clock, The clock will still tick on though!
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Mini facelifts: Quicklift, LiteLift, MACS, LifeStyle lift - will they last
Mini Facelifts such as the Quicklift, Lite Lift, MACS, LifeStyle lift and others are all modified facelifts that share certain characteristics such as being less invasive, less scarring by less incisions, lifting the underlying supporting structures (e.g. SMAS) and can often be performed without general anesthesia. What is most important is the skill of the surgeon which is a combination of years of experience, and best training (being board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery...
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Quicklifts can last for years
Think of a Quicklift as a blueprint for a house. While the steps followed during construction (determined by the blueprint) will impact the house's durabliitly, the more important determining factor is what type of building material is being used: straw, wood, brick?
Patients with good, elastic skin, and good bone structure are like brick houses: they will demonstrate longlasting results. Poorly elastic, thin, aged skin will age like a straw house: quickly....
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Quicklift Complications
Quicklift is one of the facelift procedures. I am not going to argue what is better, worse, more or less durable. It is a different topic all together.
However, any complications associated with traditional facelift can occur with quicklift also. It is important to remember that this is a surgical procedure and both surgeon and patient must treat it as such.
Most common complications may include lumpiness, bumpiness, irregularity, asymmerty, bleeding, hematoma,...
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Side effects from Quick lift
The biggest side effects are the following:
1. Assymetry - as things heal or we do a surgical procedure, assymetry is a known risk.
2. Bleeding - any incision in the skin or under the skin has the risk of excessive bleeding. Though this is in the operating room or office where we stop the bleeding, it is possible for the bleeding to open up again when you are home and necessitates you coming back to have it controlled
3. scarring - any surgical...
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Quicklift is a Mini-Facelift
This is a trademarked name given for a "mini-facelift" . The results depend completely on the starting point. It is a procedure for those with somewhat minimal cheek laxity and neck laxity that involves only the area immediately under the chin. If someone has major skin laxity of the face or neck then a more traditional facelift is the procedure of choice. In general the results of a traditional facelift are more long lasting than those of the mini-lift procedure.
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