Losing Weight After a Face Lift Okay?

Unfortunately, weight loss does tend to affect facial volume.  Less volume in the face can contribute to the appearance of aging.  However, if the SMAS was tightened by your doctor during your facelift procedure, subtle fluctuations in weight should not affect your long term outcome.  The most potent and lasting effects of facelift surgery are addressed beneath the skin.  Tightening of the skin does not provide lasting results.  Your overall health is much more important than facial aesthetics, as you know.    I would focus on achieving your ideal weight.  Then, you may not need a revision.  If you do, it should be a minor revision.  Good luck!!

Ideally, the patients should be at a steady weight prior to undergoing a facelift. But it is not uncommon for our patients to loose some weight after cosmetic surgery, as they feel happier, more energetic and take better care of themselves. Minor weight loss should not significantly change the appearance of a facelift. but if the patient looses significant weight there could be some settling if facial tissues.

 

 In my practice the patients undergo deep tissue facelift correction as well, the so called “muscle” lifting. If there is some settling that occurs after a weight lose, a simple skin tightening can be performed, with less cost and shorter recovery