What is a liquid facelift?

Surgical or even non-surgical treatment of facial aging changes must be carefully individualized to match each patient's aesthetic needs and desires. In helping a patient to make decisions about plastic surgery or non-surgical options for facial rejuvenation, I always examine and assess how each aesthetic... more

Do you look in the mirror and see your mother or father staring back at you? We all inherit our facial features and we all at some point begin to age and our face reminds us of one or both of our aging parents. That’s OK, but not when we are in our late thirties or early forties. We all want to stay... more

In response to some of the other doctor's coments, I must agree. I would encourage you to consider your finances, your goals, and what is bothering you.  Put that into the context that you may consider the face in segments and have rejuvenation in a "modular fashion".  In other words ... more

A liquid facelift involves placing large amounts of fillers into the face.  The benefit is temporary.  To achieve the effect of a facelift, it is not uncommon to spend $5000- $6000 in injectables, only to have them completely disappear in 6 months.  Then the patient can come in for another... more

Liquid face lift is a term used for the synchronized use of Botox and fillers to reverse some of the facial aging signs. It does work in the proper patient. Mild skin laxity, minimal or moderate sagging of the midface, deep glabellar lines etc...Asking for these techniques to deliver a face lift result in a... more

A 'liquid facelift' can mean different things to different plastic surgeons.  Generally speaking, it would involve injecting some form of dermal filler such as Juvederm, Restylane, or Radiesse and perhaps adding some Botox.  This type of treatment would be more ideally suited for the type of patient... more

A liquid facelift has not been clearly defined, just like a mini facelift and a full facelift and all the types of facelifting. All of these terms can mean different things to different surgeons around the world. What I have been exposed to, in regards to a liquid facelift, includes using a combination of... more

Time to get on my soap box.  There are only two types of surgeons who do facelifts, Plastic Surgeons and facial plastic surgeons.  However, everyone else want to get in on "cosmetics" so they can make more money then they get from doing insurance work.  Hence we'll call dermal fillers... more

Liquid face lifts tend to camouflage the effects of aging without achieving a true anatomical repositioning of aging tissues. The results tend to be short term and need to be repeated. They are excellent methods of accomplishing rapid, minimal down time corrections with relatively low risk. Over the long... more

What is a liquid face lift?  In order to answer this question, one needs to understand the why the face sags.  Its helpful to understand facial anatomy and aging as analogous to a table (the underlying bone, muscles, fat  that support the skin) and a table cloth (the skin).  Aging begins... more