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What Results Can I Expect from a Face Lift?
Sudden improvement in my wrinkles or just lifting of sagged skiN?
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Expectations of facelift surgery
Our goals for facelifts are to place deep tissues back to where they belong, to add volume to areas where age has taken away volume, and to tighten loose skin. The endpoint of the surgery is as much of these three goals that can be accomplished without creating a pulled look.
The ancillary procedures are as important in creating a natural harmonious result as the facelift is. These include laser resurfacing, LiveFill(R), cheeklifts, browlifts, lip lifts, earlobe reductions, DAO releases,...
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Facelift Expectations
The goal of facelift surgery is to give the patient a younger, more rested appearance. Reasonable expectations should be established on an individual basis pre-operatively. We want to achieve a smooth jawline without jowls and improve the vertical bands under the chin by re-draping the underlying muscles and removing the excess skin. Fine wrinkles will not improve unless the skin is pulled too tight. Other techniques such as good skin care, fillers, lasers, or chemical peels are used to...
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Facelifting improves looseness and redundancy of the face - not wrinkled skin.
Think of it this way - surgery is like tailoring. If the outfit is too loose, saggy, and baggy, the answer is to enlist the services of an expert tailor and "take in the dress" : a Facelift.
On the other hand, Chemical peeling or Laser Resurfacing are like ironing. If the outfit is roughly the right size, and just creased and wrinkled, you need to have it pressed - resurfaced, not lifted.
Of course, some faces may be both too loose, as well as wrinkled - these are best treated with...
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How to Understand What a Facelift Does
Facelift procedures lift sagging skin and can diminish wrinkles in many parts of the face, especially the cheeks and neck. Depending upon what condition your skin is in, and how much sagging you have will affect what a facelift can actually do. A facelift can affect the contours of your face by lifting sagging fat and skin and instilling volume to your cheeks and sharpening your jawline.
To understand what a facelift does and does not do, you should understand that a...
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Facelift results and effects
The term 'facelift' is probably not the best, as the surgery only affects that bottom 1/2 of the face. Furthermore, it does not treat wrinkles of the skin (these are best treated with injectables or topical treatments, such as chemical or laser peels or dermabrasion). Rather, it primarily acts to reposition and tighten loose, saggy tissues, such as the jowl and neck band lines.
Bay Area Facial Plastic Surgeon
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What to expect in a facelift procedure
There are a number of techniques for performing a Face Lift; every surgeon approaches the procedure their own way. My technique utilizes the underlying muscle providing a more natural and longer lasting result than the "skin only lift".
During surgery the deeper tissues are tightened, the loose skin is draped up and back, and any excess is removed. The result is a smoother, fresher appearance. A Face Lift can help to smooth prominent “cords” in the neck. Tightening the...
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Facelift expectations, is tighter better?
I have to answer the question from a specific perspective, as a board certified (The American Board of Plastic Surgery) Plastic Surgeon: tighter is not better.
You should expect that your Plastic Surgeon will review your personal goals and expectations with you, prior to the surgery.
The surgery is typically designed to restore positioning of the facial areas that have lost their place, making you look tired or unhappy. This can be done with a very natural result, not making the skin too...
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Does facelift help my wrinkles or lift sagged skin
In general, aging is caused by a combination of gravity pulling normal structures down, and fat loss in the face. Plastic surgery procedures seek to correct these changes. A facelift will structures back up to their more youthful position. Fat grafting which is often done in conjunction with facelift, helps fill areas of hollowing. However, these procedures fix anatomy but do not fix your skin. It is not unusual to need additional skin resurfacing or skin tightening...
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Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Facelift or Rhytidectomy Expectations
Rhytidectomy or facelifts do not do much to correct skin irregularities, and really are designed for elevating midface structures smoothing out jowls, and tightening the neck.
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Facelifts will correct skin redundancy not wrinkles.
Facelifts will deal with skin redundancy. A facelift is done to lift and reposition the deep tissues of the face and by doing so resculpt the face, jawline and neck to a more youthful contour. The skin is then redraped over this improved facial shape, and the skin is also lifted and smoothed and redundant tissue removed. The skin should not be pulled tight to achieve this goal as this will result in an artificial appearance. Wrinkles are not improved by a...
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Facelift Results
Every patient who seeks a facelift will have different individual goals and limitations. A facelift is designed to provide rejuvenation of the deeper tissues of the face and neck to create a more youthful configuration of the face, jawline, and neck.
The keys to a facelift are to find a skilled surgeon who is able to minimize incision visibility for a variety of hair styles, provide a robust lift while keeping the face looking natural, and create a long lasting result...
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Chicago Facial Plastic Surgeon
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A Natural Appearing Facelift
Well performed facial rejuvenation should make you look better and younger with correction of excess skin and fat and replacement of facial volume where it has been lost. In a natural appearing facelift, there is no “done” or pulled look with a visible horizontal indentation or skin furrows in the cheek area. This is avoided by evenly tightening the deeper tissues underneath the skin and then gently re-draping the skin, avoiding a stretched or unnatural appearance...
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Facelift results and expectations
You can expect significant changes following a facelift procedure depending on your particular situation and aging. The most dramatic changes occur in the eyelids and outer aspects of your face. The cheeks are lifted and the nasolabial folds are softening significantly. However, a facelift will not get rid of wrinkles around the lip area. This can be done with skin resurfacing, chemical peels or laserbrasion as well as filler injections. I recommend seeing a board certified plastic...
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Facelift Expectations
Facial aging is associated with loss of volume and sagging of soft tissue structures converting the youthful upside down pear shaped face to a square face with deepening nose to mouth folds and jowls. All Facelift techniques attempt to lift and replace sagging structures in their youthful higher positions.
Since facial aging is a variable spectrum of different individual manifestations, various Facelift techniques are best suited for each set of findings. However, lifting the face will not...
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Facelift is a 3-D operation, not just tighter skin
Facial aging is more than wrinkles and sagging skin, it occurs in 3 dimensions: there is loss of fat, there is sagging of the tissues under the skin, and even the facial bones change. That is one reason why all of the skin-tightening procedures that don't involve surgery cannot be accurately called "non-surgical facelifts". A well-done and natural appearing facelift involves reshaping more than pulling, so when done by a qualified surgeon your results should appear natural....
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Facelift expectations
A picture of you would have been key here to best answer the question. Wrinkles are textural changes in the skin and other than tightening the laxity in the skin which may improve the wrinkles, they are fundamentally a skin problem. A facelift should leave you with no extra neck fat, a nice angular neck, a smooth jawline with no jowls, restored cheek volume, and a completely un-operated on look. Check my photos on RealSelf for potential examples.
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Facelifts can improve sagging skin and loose tissues
Facelifts typically are lifting procedures that reverse the effects of gravity. It is best suited to elevate sagging tissues like neck, jowls and midface regions. It is used to tighten muscles and restore volume to hollowed areas of the face. It does not typically improve wrinkles in the skin itself.
While the swelling might hide wrinkles for a period of time, typically some type of resurfacing procedure is required to improve wrinkles. It is analgous to ironing wrinkles out of a shirt and...
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Jacksonville Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Facelift Results
It is very important to understand what the goals of a facelift are and the results you can expect. A facelift is known by the technical term rhytidectomy. This is a procedure designed to improve the appearance of your jaw line by lifting the jowels to their original position. In addition, the face lift procedure can also restore the neck to a more youthful position. There are several different techniques for performing facelifts. Any technique performed today must address the deep muscles...
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Boca Raton Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Facelift will not correct wrinkles
A facelift will improve skin laxity and contours; it will not correct skin wrinkles. The analogy is: your bed sheets are all pushed up on the bottom of the bed. You will the sheets up so they are not bunched up but they are still wrinkled. Same thing with the face. The skin will not be redundant anymore after a facelift but the wrinkles will still be present. You would need a skin resurfacing procedure such as a LASER, deep peel, etc. to improve the wrinkles. Hope this helps.
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You should expect to look 10 years younger, natural and not need more surgery
Your question makes so much sense. It is not beyond today's reality. Take a look at my web site and let me know if this is what you are thinking about. No touch ups, no need for a mini-lift, short recovery time, no complaints of pain... After you take a look, I think you know that there is a solution for you.
The web link has plenty of video so that you can see that this procedure is for real.
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Facelift needs to be customized
I think it is always important to qualify what is meant by a facelift. Some surgeons consider total facial rejuvenation surgery a facelift. This would include the browlift, midfacelift, upper and lower eyes, face and neck. So in this case, you can expect a younger, refreshed, non-pulled look. You can expect to look like a younger version of yourself.
In the case of a facelift meaning the lower face - the jowls and neck, which is the traditional definition of a facelift, you can expect...
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What to expect from a facelift
You should expect to look younger, not look done.
The central part of the facelift is not the jowls, but the eyes, which is what every body is looking at when they look at you.
Check out the link and the video below for more visual explanations.
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Facelift is a Structural Approach
Think of the aging changes that occur in the face on two levels: the facial soft tissue structure, and the skin. Facelift is designed to reposition the facial soft tissues such as the jowls, midfacial tissue in a vertical fashion, and the soft tissues of the neck in a more posterior or lateral direction. This helps accentuate a more youthful jawline and contour the neck without giving a pulled or stretched appearance. Repositioning of these soft tissues allows for trimming of excess skin...
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Face Lift
Face lift is for sagging facial soft tissue, deep nasolabial folds, jowls, and lax neck.
That is what the face lift will address and improve.
Fine wrinkles do not improve with face lift, fine wrinkles depending on where they are require Botox or better Laser resurfacing.
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A real facelift restores a natural, youthful appearance
This procedure is accomplished by lifting deeper tissue under the skin and removing excess skin to restore the balance of a youthful face. The features one can expect with a facelift includes a well defined jawline and the absence of sagging neck skin. In my practice, the lift is pulled upwards rather than outwards, as was done in the past, so that a result is a natural appearance which takes about ten years off of your face rather than the wind tunnel look that looks like you had a...
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New York Oculoplastic Surgeon
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