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In general, we aim to restrict elective surgical sessions to 8 hours or less. A typical deep plane SMAS facelift typically requires about 4 to 5 hours, with an additional hour to an hour and a half for a brow lift. Conversely, liposuction of the abdomen typically takes around 2 hours. The overall duration depends on your surgeon's efficiency in performing each procedure. Beyond time considerations, it is safe to concurrently perform liposuction with facial procedures.

I perform facelift procedures with added body liposuction often. It depends on your surgeons comfortability with the combination surgeries.

Laser resurfacing is very safe to perform at the same time as a facelift. and I do so on a good majority of my facelift patients.

The benefit of this is combining the downtime of each procedure into one and not having to endure the initial pain of the laser like you would if you were to do the laser treatment in the office.

It is not uncommon at all to undergo a brow lift, upper and lower eyelid lift, facelift, fat grafting and laser resurfacing to the face in a single surgery time. I perform this combination on a routine basis and in my opinion, it is always better to combine these as you are also combining the downtime of each procedure into a single time period. Although the anesthesia time is longer, we will only need to experience one operative experience opposed to 4-5.

This is not to say that you cannot split them up. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing things here and there when they bother you. But again, if multiple areas bother you, I would always recommending doing it all at the same time.

Unfortunately, a facelift does not last 15 years. It depends on the age at which you undergo the procedure but in general, a properly done facelift will last approximately 5 to 7 years. An important caveat to mention is that after this time, you are not going to look exactly as you did prior to your facelift. You will still have an improvement, however, after 5 to 7 years you will most likely have some sagging and redundancy that could bother you and you may consider another facelift.

Having this combination of facial surgeries is very common and something that I recommend often to my patients. It will save you multiple recovery times by combining them all into a single surgery day. Typically, I tell patients that it takes approximately 4 weeks to start looking “normal” and 2 to 3 months until you will look your best. If you are on camera, I would suggest waiting 3 months to be fully camera ready.