Are patients intubated for a Facelift?

Facelifts can easily be performed with oral sedation and
local anesthesia.It is unusual for my
patients to require intubation or general anesthesia but it can be
requested.This opinion, of course, will
differ from physician to physician.

This is completely up to your surgeon, but in my practice about 95% of our facelifts are performed under oral sedation. However, for surgeons who prefer general anesthesia, the intubation tube is usually small and will not skew the results of the facelift.

Thank you for submitting your question.  You can have a face lift performed with IV sedation or endotrachial intubation.  The endotrachial tube does not interfere with the face lift.  Consult with a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon.  Best Wishes. 

Hello!  Thank you for your question!  Typically, facelifts are performed under sedation or general anesthesia. It is often determined u surgeon comfort.  It is common for many surgeons to work around the tube, if it is utilized, with minimal distortion during the procedure. 

Depends.Typically under specific circumstances a person having a facelift can have the procedure performed under IV sedation (aka., conscious sedation, twilight anesthesia) and therefore will not be intubated (which is a soft tube inserted into the throat by an anesthesiologist to assist your breathing). However, despite being intubated your features around your mouth are not distorted and will not impact your result; moreover, the plastic surgeon should have plenty of photographs taken of you prior to surgery, and these should be posted on the wall in the operating room or on a large television screen as a reference (I do both).The attached link provides more information about anesthesia and facelifts.I hope this helps.

Facelifts are performed with intravenous sedation or general anesthesia via an LMA or endotracheal tube. An experienced plastic surgeon is used to working with these tubes in place and they do not effect facelift results. In our clinic, when general anesthesia is used via an endotracheal tube, the tube is sutured in place so we can safely see the surrounding area without sacrificing patient safety.

Facelift can be done either under general anaesthetic and an endotracheal tube or with IV sedation and no tube. In either case a well trained, board-certified surgeon should have no difficulty seeing what is necessary to give you a good result. Hope that helps!  

Facelifts can be performed with IV sedation that does not require an endotracheal tube.  My preference is to have the patient intubated with a tube that is draped with a sterile sleeve to allow manipulation.

Most facelifts but not all are performed under general anesthesia. When general anesthesia is employed the airway is maintained by positioning of an endotracheal tube.

That is an excellent question and there can be changes around the mouth when a patient is intubated for a facelift. There are many options available in anaesthesia and you can have a general anaesthesia and be intubated either orally or nasaly OR you can have a 'twilight' anaesthesia which does not involve intubation but rather oxygenation via and nasopharyngeal tube. Ultimately, facelift surgery can be completed successfully with any of these measures. You should choose your surgeon base on their qualifications and before and after images rather than what type of anaesthesia they use. Best of luck.RegardsDr Guy Watts