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What is Serdev Suture Mid Face Lift?

asked 2 years ago by jongkia in Yardley,PA
Latest answer by Paul C. Zwiebel, MD
Question viewed 2,220 times
Tags: lift, plastic surgery, scarless

I searched the web and found that this procedure is non-invasive and the result are subtle but scarless.

3 answers to What is Serdev Suture Mid Face Lift?

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Serdev Suture for Facelift

The Serdev suture has some unique qualities, and is used in a suture technique without undermining (surgical release of tissues to aid in repositioning). The appeal is the minimal trauma, lack of scars and quick recovery. The technique does not have widespread acceptance. Many surgeons have abandoned suture techniques because of complications with the techniques and because they do not last well.
Paul C. Zwiebel, MD

Denver Plastic Surgeon
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Serdev Suture Lifts

I actually visited Dr. Serdev a few months ago in Bulgaria. Suture suspension lifts have not been received well historically. Dr. Serdev has built a career with his unique proprietary sutures and instruments. His sutures have an elastic quality to them that move with the tissue and minimize the possibility of them tearing through. Another difference is the use of his specially designed needles that allow for non traumatic anchoring of these sutures to specific areas of the face. I have... more
Edmon Pierre Khoury, MD

Dubai Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Serdev Suture Face Lift

These thread lifting procedures keep coming back to haunt us. The threadlifts for facelifiting were out about a year before the FDA pulled them off the market. The threads would break from the tension and then the free ends would migrate under the skin before poking out throught the skin like in some science fiction movie. The whole idea of relying on just a suture deep to the skin to create a tightening result has never made sense to me. I have seen hundreds of patients with deep sutures... more
Aaron Stone, MD

Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

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