Lower Face Lift: Q&A
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The plastic surgeon I am considering for a lower facelift and neck lift indicates he uses a rolling sutures around the ear and behind the tragus. Is this the typical way sutures are done for same surgery, or isn't it? Or are the fine, tiny sutures some doctors do, produce a more invisible suture line? This piece of the surgery is extremely important to me. I need to find out of this is the norm. Thanks
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BrookeinCO
in Colorado
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Incision Type for Face & Neck Lift Sutures Around the Ear
This is a very common question, however it's not very critical for plastic surgery face lift results.
The plastic surgeon performing your face lift and neck lift will place the appropriate number of stitches. There isn't a magical or normal number, suture material, or length of incision. The longer or bigger the incision, then the more stitches will be required. Some face lift surgeons prefer absorbable stitches, some prefer permanent, while others use both types. Plastic...
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Sutures used in facelift
The most important part of the facelift is how the muscles are tightened under the skin, where the incisions are placed and how the skin is re-draped. I use small 5-0 and 6-0 nylon suture to close the top of the skin, These sutures are on top of several buried absorbable sutures which remove the tension. The nylon sutures are removed in several days. Good luck with your surgery.
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Sutures for Lower Facelift and Neck Lift
While the use of meticulous techniques, fine sutures, and reduced wound tension certainly help in reducing facelift scarring, there are other factors that are important in terms of how a patient scars after a faceclift. Here is what I believe is important to reduce scarring:
1. The attention a physician's team pays to wrapping the skin after a facelift can impact scarring. In my opinion, some wrapping techniques place too much pressure on the skin, and such pressure...
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Do suture type influence the final result
Short answer - the surgeon is most important, the technique second and third the suture material a distant third. Having practiced the art o plastic surgery for more than two decades (OK almost three) I have had the opportunity to watch surgical greats work during my training and as a professor of plastic surgery as well as critically examine my own results using different sutures, and techniques. The bottom line is that "great surgeons get great results" . For example...
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Sutures Used in Facelift
I use a tragal edge incision and close the wound with a combination of 5-0 and 6-0 size sutures. It does not matter if the sutures are a single running suture or an array of individual sutures. The best suture to close with is a non reactive nylon suture. I find a tragal edge incision distorts the least and hides the best. I also put my incision directly across in the back behind the ear and into the hair ....so if you wear your hair up or a pony tail you see nothing.
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Face lift and sutures
The sutures used to close a face lift are overrated assuming they are at least a 5-0 or higher. Otherwise it does not matter where they are placed, how many or in how many layers. This is based on personal experience and over 100 face lifts. Make sure your surgeon is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Samer W. Cabbabe, M.D.
Board - Certified Plastic Surgeon
Saint Louis Plastic Surgery Consultants
Saint Louis Plastic Surgeon
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Facelift Sutures
Hi BrookeinCO-
I believe the surgeon is referring to a running suture used to close the skin, which is like sewing a hemline. The suture should be fine and is an accepted technique. If you have any questions review the surgeon's before and after photos.
Sincerely
Tom Kaniff
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Sutures for Facelift Closure
The term "rolling" suture is probably a reference to a running suture as opposed to an individual or interrupted suture. In general, the Facelift incision is closed with a series of interrupted and running sutures, employing 5-0 or 6-0 suture material. With the technique I employ, the suture line is broken up into several components: the first along the temporal hairline, the second at the junction of the ear (anterior helical crus) to the cheek, the third behind...
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Sutures for Facelift
Rolling sutures is typically not the way we perform the facelift. The sutures used during a facelift are very small sutures consisting of 5-0 and 6-0 nylon placed in very inconspicuous areas around, in front, and behind the ears. The other two important areas with regard to scarring are the amount of tension placed on the skin. The more tension that is placed on the skin from pulling will result in wide scars. Having the sutures removed quite early in the process such as day #4 is...
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Buried sutures make better scars generally
Any time an incision can be closed with buried, or hidden sutures, the risk of visible suture marks is dramatically diminished. Luckily the majority of a facelift incision is hidden from view anyway.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.
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