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How Many Facelifts Can U Have in a Life Time?
One ps said it was only 3 in a life time is this true .?Is it more difficult with each facelift u have ?
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How many facelifts can a person undergo in their lifetime?
There is no upward limit on the number of facelifts a person can undergo. As long as the surgeon is conservative and plans the surgery to result in a natural appearance there should not be a problem with subsequent procedures. The key is to ensure that the patient has realistic expectations and motivations for seeking a second/ third facelift and that the surgeon believes that they can achieve an aesthetic result. The vast majority of facelift patients present seeking their first or second...
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Maximum number of facelifts in a lifetime...
The number of facelifts one can have in a lifetime is unclear. In general, less is more and you want to get maximum benefit out of each operation. The typical facelift "last" between 5 and 10 years before needing a refresher procedure. However, some of the new "in office" procedures being heavily marketed around the country will only have benefit for a year or two or less. So make sure you are comparing apples to apples when looking at the answer to this question.
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How Many Facelifts Can you Have in a Lifetime
In my experience, the question usually isn't if you need another facelift to deal with recidivism from a previous facelift. Rather, the more useful question is what are the best options for regression and relapse of some the main issues that lead people to have facelifts in the first place.To this end, there are a whole host of new technologies in the past decade that can help deal with many of the issues related to facelifts. I personally feel that some of these options should be...
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How Many Facelifts Can U Have in a Life Time?
As long as they are perform the Face Lifts with an understanding of the proper aesthetics, of facial beauty for the creation of a naturally more youthful and attrcative face...you can have as many as are required.
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Number of facelifts
You can have as many facelifts as your skin laxity will allow. With each subsequent facelift the difficulty is dependent on what are the aesthetic goals. In some cases, a tuck up procedure may be all that is necessary. In other cases, a full facelift may be required.
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How many face lifts can one have in their lifetime?
With regard to face lift surgery, there is no specific limit on the number of procedures one can have in their lifetime. Most patients will have the procedure preformed once. Some patients will have a revision of their face lift approximately 10 to 15 years after their first face lift. A few patients will have a third face lift 30 to 40 years following their first procedure. the necessity and timing of subsequent face lifts depends on the desires and rate of aging of each...
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Facelift and SMAS
With aging, one not only sags but there is loss of volume. Although there is no limit as to the number of facelifts that an individual can have, many problems can be resolved by correcting volume loss as opposed to lifting. Have a thorough examination by a Facial Plastic Surgeon to go over your options.
Good luck!
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Number of facelifts one can have in a lifetime
There are so many variables in the aging process, it is impossible to answer that question. Variables include the type of skin that is present, sun exposure, and smoking. There are many different types of facelifts that are being performed that all address aging components differently. As a general rule, most patients would not need anymore than 3 facelifts in their entire life span, but there are always exceptions.
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Facelifts in a lifetime
I do not think that there is a specific number in terms of how manyh can you have. It really depends upon your results and quality of tissues.
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How Many Facelifts in a Lifetime?
There is probably no limit. I have done a 7th revision on a facelift. As people are living longer, healthier, more productive lives, facelift revisions will continue to become more and more popular. Kenneth Hughes, MD Facelift Los Angeles, CA
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Facelifts in a Lifetime
The number of facelifts you can have in a lifetime depends on one's anatomy, aging process, skin elasticity, healing ability. Each successive surgery becomes more difficult for the surgeon so you must consider an experienced facial plastic surgeon who performs a large number of revision facelift surgeries.
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How many facelifts can one person have?
Thanks for your question -
While there is no limit to the number of facelifts an individual can have, short of having rare genetic diseases that contribute to skin laxity usually one or two is enough for most.
Typically patients may begin to see recurrence of issues that can be corrected by repeat facelift after 10 or so years.
I hope this helps.
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