What is the difference between a Lifestyle Lift and a mini lift?

There are three assumptions you can safely make in Facial Plastic Surgery:  1) The more advanced the aging changes are, the more extensive your procedure needs to be. 2) Not all surgeons are equal.  As I was told in my training, " There is no such thing as a minor procedure; there are however,... more

Unfortunately there are a number of terms to describe surgical procedures to rejuvenate the face. Some of these terms refer to actual surgical procedures and some of these terms are used solely for marking purposes. This is especially true of the procedures such as The Lifestyle Lift. This is a heavily... more

Buyer beware: a number of ‘limited incision’ and ‘quick recovery’ facelift procedures are currently marketed to patients with names like “The Quicklift”, “The Lifestyle Lift”, “The Weekend Facelift”, “The S Lift”, “The MACS... more

Lifestyle lift is the latest incarnation of the original skin-only facelift, first performed in 1904. This technique was abandoned shortly thereafter because it caused unsatisfactory scarring, ear displacement and short-lived results. The latest technique is no different except that those performing the... more

What you have to understand is that these are marketing terms and not defined surgical procedures. The lifestyle lift is performed by different surgeons in different locations and as far as I know there is no textbook that defines the procedure. Most of the patients are "screened" by a nurse or... more

These are fundamentally the same thing. One is a heavily marketed "name" and the other is a generic term for some sort of minimalistic facelift. There is no standard facelift procedure and each doctor does it differently but these are basically the same thing. Remember that a mini lift will give a... more

The "lifestyle lift" uses the same incisions as a mini-lift, but uses sutures only to achieve the "lift".  The lifestyle lift may only last by some reports  as little as 18 months to 3 years, but it costs a lot! The mini-lift uses the same incision, and usually achieves the... more

Hi!  I like Dr. Freund's answer about the Lifestyle Lift.  It is an embarrassing gimmick. A "mini lift" can mean several different things, but, at best, it will give you partial, short term improvement.  I don't do it. Today, we have several good ways of making people look younger and... more

This is a difficult question to answer because there are so many variables. For one, each plastic surgeon has his own opinion of what a mini-lift entails.  For some, it is a limited scar.  For others it implies limited skin undermining.  For others, a mini-facelift is a skin only operation and... more

The term mini-lift is nebulous, but is often used either to mean a facelift for the upper face alone, for the neck and lower face alone, or for a minimal skin-only facelift. The Lifestyle lift, according to its practitioners, and the post-LSL patients I have seen, involves the incisions of a full facelift,... more