The past couple years my cheeks have fallen, leaving my under eyes partially hallowed and folds around my mouth. My cheeks are now beginning to rest around my mouth and jowl area. I feel much older. I decided to get filler (radiesse) in my cheeks, which I fell helped 20%. Radiesse only attempted to fill in my upper face but ignores the new mass that is my lower face. Is a midface lift is what I need? It puts the pad (my cheeks) back on my cheekbones and out of my lower face. Am I a candidate?
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After 20 years in practice and a lot of facelifts I got my first parotid fistula about 4 months ago. It was not from a deep plane facelift. It successfully stopped after about 6 weeks as I recall. I had my patient use a Scopalamine patch and adhere to a very bland diet. I don't think the...
As gum chewing causes the excess movement of your facial muscles, I advise against chewing gum for a few weeks. Chewing one's food is natural and one must eat so chewing food is fine; gum chewing isn't a necessity and if one can avoid, they should so that the facelift heals optimally and...
It is important that the surgeon understands the relationship of the facial nerve to the anchoring ligaments and the anatomy of the SMAS and subSMAS tissue spaces accurately to perform a safe and successful surgery. Actually, extended techniques such as deep and composite plane facelifts while...
