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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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. With a... more

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.

Sam Naficy, MD

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Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Treadlift facelift has higher recovery, complications and does not last as long

The “Threadlift” facelift and brow lift seemed to have wonderful potential, and there was a great deal of interest in these procedures when they first were introduced. Unfortunately, after a short period of time, serious limitations of this procedure became apparent. The recovery time was, in fact, more involved and prolonged than first thought. The results turned out not to be lasting, and a number of troublesome complications associated with the threads... more

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... more

Threading is ok for marionettes not faces

The Drs. Sulamanadize, Russian Plastic Surgeon father & son, advanced the APTOS suture technique of thread lifts. Apparently this technique was initially proposed in the late 70's but rapidly rejected because of excessive complications, such as visibility, palpability of the sutures, suture fixation failure, suture extrusion either in the scalp or the cheek, as well as the need to micromanage the patient's post-op activity, including the imposition of non-chew... more

Lavinia Chong, MD

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Orange County Plastic Surgeon

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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 ... more

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... more

Jeffrey M. Darrow, MD

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Boston Plastic Surgeon

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.

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.

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.