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How Are the Results of Threading Compared to a Regular Face Lift, Especially for Excessive Jowling?
Does face lift threading produce the same results as a traditional face lift?
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Results of regular facelift compared to threading.
The facelift operation removes fat and excess skin from the neck, while tightening the muscles of the facial and neck. Any type of treading procedure will only provide temporary tightening of the skin in the jowl area. We have seen multiple complications from threading and most plastic surgeons no longer perform this procedure. The treads simply do not hold up over the long term.
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Threading instead of face lift
No. Threading does not work long enough to justify paying for it.
When it first came out years ago, I tried facial threading without charge for patients who wanted to avoid surgery.
Results looked great...but did not last longer than a week or two. After three threadings, there was a slight lasting improvement. To pay money for this makes no sense.
Have the face lift surgery. It works. The 'easy' threading substitute does not.
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Threadlift vs. surgical facelift
I can say without reservation that results from threading procedures are in general ineffective and short lasting, especially if there is excessive jowling.
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Facelift vs Threading
Yikes - you can't even begin to compare the surgery of a faceilft with a threadlift - btw, "threading" as you called it is a form of epilation (hair removal) that is typically used to shape the eyebrows. But it's understandable that you would use that term as it that procedure (inserting barbed threads to pull up the skin) was marketed widely and popularly. But it's truly like comparing apples to oranges. A facelift - though arguably a larger and more...
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Threading is ok for marionettes not faces
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String lift vs. full facelift
Good quality facelifts that will correct weakness to the jowls and lower facial areas generally will require a more complete facelift, focusing on the SMAS and platysmal muscle layers of the face. Simpler, more limited facelift techniques usually will be inadequate to bring the best results to a more aging facial appearance. Don't settle if a highly advertised, simpler technique may promise the same quality result that a ...
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Threadlift doesn't work. Choose a real facelift.
Although heavily marketed as a good alternative to a facelift, the threadlift has largely been abandoned by plastic surgeons due to limited corrections of the facial aging, poor jowl correction, and poor longevity of results. Threads were known to break, requiring replacement and to be visible beneath the skin as thin cords. There are a minimal incision facelifts which can be done under local anesthesia which give excellent results in the correct patients. I recommend...
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Thread Lift Update
Thread lifts as a stand alone procedure to not come close to the results of a standard Facelift. They were utilized in patients with very minimal aging changes or in patients who had prior face lifts. Nowadays, those patients are typically treated with volumizing (fat or fillers) or a mini lift.
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Threadlift?
I'm a little surprised that anyone is promoting this any longer after the poor and sometimes really awful results seen with this procedure. I honestly think the only doctors who would offer this procedure do so because they are not surgeons and don't know how to do a face lift.
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Thread lifts: good idea, bad results
Thread lifts have fallen out of favor. The original idea was a good concept but, they just dont last long enough, are expensive, and frequently create problems.
Better to go with a Lite-Lift, Quick-lift or other modified facelift under local.
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How Are the Results of Threading Compared to a Regular Face Lift, Especially for Excessive Jowling?
So, ALL the expert posters agree that THREADING is a waste of time and money! Best you forget about it and seek opinions concerning open facelifts.
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Threadlift or Facelift
Threadlifting involves the use of permanent, barbed sutures that are "treaded" under the skin. They are placed in precise positions and the skin is pulled in an upward direction to counteract the effects of aging. Like every procedure complications ar possible, including Infection of the threads and extrusion of threads (working their way out through the skin). Perhaps the biggest downside to threadlifting, however, is the lack of longevity. Typically,...
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Threading vs Regular Facelift
Although threading is a much quicker operation, a traditional facelift will provide a better, more predictable result which will last a lot longer. Few experienced surgeons will do the thread lift , which has been around for about 15 years, but continues to disappoint.
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How Are the Results of Threading Compared to a Regular Face Lift, Especially for Excessive Jowling?
Sadly, NO. IMHO of performing face Lifts for over 20 years, the threads, support sutures or anymethod of fixation does not work. For a Face Lift to be effective it must:
Have some type of incision around the contours, of the ear, so excess skin can be removed
The SMAS muscle layer must be elevated, trimmed and sutured back together instead of soldind, suturing upward alone
The center, of the face, (Cheek area) must be shaped
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"Threading" Facelift vs. "Real" Facelift
The short answer to your question is No! Threadlifts have been abandoned by most plastic surgeons as the results and their longevity have been disappointing. And there are not free of complications either. If you have facial aging concerns, see a facelift specialist for a thorough consultation.
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Threadlifts
In my opinion, threadlifts were never a good idea. The proof has been borne out. No one really performs them. It was a very successful marketing strategy though. Made a lot of people a lot of money. Glad I never performed any.
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Threading lift not comparable to face lift
Threading lifts where more of a marketing strategy than any long term benefit to the patient. Most experienced aesthetic surgeons no longer offer thread lifts to their patients because long term results were simply not comparable to other procedures. Unfortunatly for the patient not every new rejeuvination technology turns out to what it is tauted as. Spend your money on your doctors good judgment rather than faddish antiaging technologies
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Less invasive facelift options
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Face lift vs Thread Lift
Traditional Facelift surgery, U-lift facial rejuvenation, or other open methods are the gold standard for facial rejuvenation and reduction of excessive jowling. A recent article in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery recommends against the Thread Lift asserting that it is basically worthless.
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Thread lift vs facelift
I think you may get numerous answers to this question with different opinions offered. My answer is that a thread lift costs about 2/3 or a facelift and offers only limited results which last 1/3 as long. Hence, there is no real value to the thread lift procedure.
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Threadlifts can't compare to regular facelifts
Threadlifts were a clever idea but the company let just about any doctor do them and they died on the vine. The results were minimal and short lived and I can't imagine anybody still does them. A regular facelift is for sure the way to go but by a ABPS certified surgeon.
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Thread Lift vs. Face Lift
When thread lifts first came out, they were all the rage and used by many practitioners. Unfortunately, the results have not stood up over time. There have been problems with infection or extrusion of the sutures as well as relapse of the pulled tissues. The best solution for jowls is open surgery.
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Daniel Medalie, MD
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Face lift/thread lift
Thread lifts are to have medium term ( up to two years ) of mild improvement in middle age patients with some laxity/sagginess of facila skin. It helps to move up saggy eyebrows, reduces midface, lower face and upper neck jowels . It is not a replacement for face lift operations. They do not do any thing to streched out muscles, nor do they remove excess skins. They have their own places in our armamentarium of facial cosmetic surgery.
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Suture lift were a great idea.
Many good individuals put in a lot of time trying to make this work. Some still cling to the belief that this method works. If suture lifts have any effect after 4 - 6 months at best it is incredibly modest. This is a discredited method. There is simply no comparison to an actual facelift.
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Another quick fix procedure instead of a face lift
It is not worth a lengthy explanation to simply conclude that thread lifts are pretty much worthless as an alternativep to a facelift especially for jowl correction.
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Threading vs Traditional Facelift
Threading does not produce the results as a traditional facelift. First of all, please make sure that your surgeon is a board certified facial plastic surgeon or plastic surgeon. In my experience, patients who have had threading often seek a traditional revision face lift afterwards. It depends on what your goals are and it is always best to do things right the first time.
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