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What is a Weekend Facelift?
I heard on tv about a week end lift that makes a facelift much easier and cheaper. what is this procedure? does it make sense for someone with jowels that sag just a bit and when house hold budget is a concern?
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Weekend facelift, a lifetime of trouble
Minilifts, as you know if you have read my previous posts, are marketing genius, and patient nightmares.
The pulling of a minifacelift is intense around the minimally undermined skin, so scarring is often wide and painful.
You can read about the experience of having a minifacelift under local anesthesia. Few patients describe it as pleasant.
The effectiveness around the jowl and neck area is often minimal, simply because the surgeon isn't nearly done when the operation is over, and all the...
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Weekend facelift
A "weekend facelift" is a limited facelift. The procedure and recovery are shorter than the more traditional, extensive facelift. Results are less dramatic and the duration of that limited improvement is short-lived. Get several consultations so you clearly understand the alternatives.
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Weekend lift or Minifacelift
The weekend lift is similar to other lifts that imply that new technology will allow great results with little to no downtime. There are lifting techniques with less dissection that produce some reasonable results. They can be performed under local anesthesia conditions in most outpatient or well-equipped surgical offices.
This lift is discussed by some very reputable surgeons. S-lifts or minilifts can produce some reliable improvements with less down-time than a...
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Phoenix Facial Plastic Surgeon
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What is a Weekend Facelift? A "Lunch Hour" Facelift? etc
Regarding: "What is a Weekend Facelift?
I heard on tv about a week end lift that makes a facelift much easier and cheaper. what is this procedure? does it make sense for someone with jowels that sag just a bit and when house hold budget is a concern?"
The Weekend Lift is another crass marketing effort to separate you from your money by preying on your belief that you can get something for nothing with little to no recovery.
This "Facelift" operation is a...
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Avoid Mass Marketed Facelift Procedures for the Masses
Facelift surgery is very patient specific, and there is no single procedure that optimally suits all patients. I would especially stay away from any procedure with a catchy marketing name, especially when it comes to approaching your face, which is very expensive real-estate. The weekend facelift that you refer to I believe is a simple skin lift of the cheeks, and is performed in the office under local anesthesia with mild sedation. This procedure works quite nicely in...
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Weekend Facelift is a short cut to a real Facelift
The term "weekend facelift" was first created as a gimmicky catch phrase to bring plastic surgeons and wanna-be plastic surgeons more business. Now it has become used to refer to any minimally invasive technique or combincation technqiue that has a two or three day recovery. I think that the term facelift should be reserved for a true facial tissue lift that is long lasting but it makes it sound cooler, I suppose to attach the words "weekend" and "facelift"...
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Weekend Facelift
I believe it is not how fast I can do surgery, but how good I can make it that is important. My time on the day of surgery will benefit my patients the rest of their lives. Personally, for me, it would be a soulless pursuit for my office to just collect the patients payment and then rush through the procedure and obtain a mediocre result. The real joy is doing my very best knowling my patients and their families have trusted me with their faces and their well-being.
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It's marketing
Doctors adopt names such as "weekend facelift" for marketing purposes. This is not a term generally accepted by plastic surgeons, so what is really is depends on what the doctor using the term means by it.
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Week-end facelift
Contrary to my colleagues comments, I have performed the "week-end facelift" with good long lasting results. As opposed to the current marketing terms floating around such as "quicklift" and "lifestyle lift", the term week-end facelift was coined by a dermatologist (probably not comfortable doing facelifts). The technique involves one incision below the chin (not seen). The next step is to liposuction the neck and jowls. Muscles are tightened and then a...
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Weekend facelift - no weekday results!
Many of these terms are marketing gimmicks. This is similar to calling a used car...preowned. Essentially, there are numerous marketing gimmicks advertising minimal downtime, etc. Some of these are true, and some are just gimmicks. Unless you address the SMAS layer and the platysma, your results will be sub-optimal and will not stand the test of time. Ask to see pics, ask to talk to patients!
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Mini Facelifts can work well, if.....
"Mini" procedures always sound attractive. Less scarring, less downtime, less cost. A marketer's dream! In recent years, unfortunately, a number of procedures have been marketed aggressively, gained significant short-term popularity, only to be discredited due to lack of results and frequency of complications. Other doctors have listed some of these procedures already in this post. We don't however, want to "throw the baby out with...
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Weekend Facelift
The weekend facelift is a really just a mini facelift. When the results and recovery time quoted to you are too good to be true, it usually is. There is no surgical facelift procedure that will elevate your jowls and give you a long lasting result that has a weekend of recovery. Having said that, not all facelifts are the same. You can certainly have a short incision facelift with traditional techniques that reposition the deep tissue in your face and not just the skin. This procedure will...
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Chevy Chase Facial Plastic Surgeon
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What is a "Weekend Facelift"?
Hi there-
The term was meant to imply that you could recover from the procedure over a weekend, but as the entries from my colleagues indicate, most responsible plastic surgeons think very little of these techniques, and even less of the promises made by providers of these procedures...
You should be very wary of procedures and their providers when promises of amazing improvement with incredibly short and easy recovery are made...
Generally speaking, when more time is spent selling you on...
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Weekend Facelift
This is a very old term that was developed in the late 1990's that referred tio agressive liposuction of the neck combined with CO2 treatment of the undersurface of the skin. There were many complications with this procedure and it was abandoned.
The term has now developed a generic meaning and is applied to any mini facelift procedure that is performed and has the potential for minimal downtime. The truth is that few effective procedures have a minimal down time.
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Weekend Facelift is a Marketing Term
Weekend Facelift is a marketing term designed to be seductive, implying Facelift results without downtime, sort of a Facelift-lite: a true hassle free Facelift. In other words, as opposed to "older" techniques, this newer magic wand offers literally no downtime in minutes. But wait, there's more...........
The truth is that this term refers to a mini-lift, which as others have posted offers mini-results, generally indicated for mini-indications. Until genetic engineering is...
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A weekend facelift will last for a weekend
There is no shortcut to a quality facelift. All mini and minimalistic facelifts are going to give a mini result that lasts a mini length of time with all the scars of a regular facelift and a recovery that is the same 2 weeks. That's not spending wisely.
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What is a Weekend Facelift?
Weekend facelifts imply mini-facelifts, which in my opinion give mini-results. I see several patients a month who are very disenchanted with their weekend facelifts, and many feel they wasted money on a misrepresented procedure. These are procedures that were done when facelifting first began many decades ago, so the are not new. A few deep sutures and pullng the skin tight doesn't work, particularly after the first few months. Skin stretches, and the...
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Weekend Facelift = Sales Gimmick
For a patient who would actually benefit from a facelift procedure, the operation is real surgery and will have a significant recovery period (2-4 weeks). Because it takes a significant amount of operative time to perform a formal facelift, the operations are somewhat expensive. Both of these are obstacles that prevent many people from considering a facelift -- you have to be financially secure enough to both 1) pay for the procedure and 2) not work during the required recovery...
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What is a weekend facelift
As the economy becomes more dicey everyone is interested in saving money. But buyer beware! The facelift procedure you are mentioning is a skin only life that will provide you short term results at best even in the very optimal candidates. Facelifting is a highly patient specific procedure and there is no "one size fits all" option as marketed. Also, be aware that noone is completely healed and back to their normal daily activity after any serious surgical...
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Scottsdale Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Weekend Facelifts
There is absolutely no such thing as a true weekend facelift. There may be physicians that perform weekend facelifts, but by and large there is no such thing as a weekend facelift or a one-day recovery facelift unless you’re considering doing nonsurgical techniques such as fillers and Botox for shaping the face. However, to do a true, long lasting, natural Lift & Fill facelift requires the true expertise of a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon that is trained in not only facial...
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What is a week end face lift?
I think this means a facelift that you do on Friday and you are healed by Monday. If you don't do anything there is no healing time. If you do less you heal faster. These terms are all invented for marketing reason. Terms like one hour face lift, weekend lift, lunch time peel, etc. Ther are time where one can achieve improvements with less or in some cases with no surgery. This is a decision that can be made by a competent surgeon and a smart patient. I sometime do a facelift in a younger...
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Weekend Facelifts
The "weekend Facelift" is a brilliant marketing concept that plays into all our our desires and secret aspirations, that is, to get something for nothing. No pain, No danger, No downtime, Cheap and Miraculous. Unfortunately it is none of those things. The dissatisfaction with these mini lifts is very high, and we often see diasppointed patients who have spent thousands of dollars for a negligible result. Buyer Beware!
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Weekend Lift vs traditional facelift
Although others may say or think differently, I use the term Weekend Lift to refer to a real face and neck lift procedure which is highly effective at correcting age related changes of both the jowl and the neck. This is accomplished under local anesthesia without the long incisions of a traditional facelift procedure. In my opinion, these very long incisions result in prolonged healing and are unnecessary in most patients. It is certainly NOT a waste of money...
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Weekend Facelift
Take the money you were going to spend on this lift and go have a great weekend in a nearby city. It will be better use of your money.
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Weekend Face Lift, Mini Face Lift, Lifestyle Lift, etc...
What is a weekend lift, mini face lift or lifestyle lift?
The terms weekend face lift, mini face lift, and lifestyle lift are basically interchangable and generally describe a type of face lift with limited dissection of the deeper muscles and fibrous covering of the face, called the SMAS. Sometimes, sutures are placed in the SMAS to tighten the muscles while other times there is no SMAS tightening and only skin tightening.
The benefits of a weekend face lift, mini face lift,...
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