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How Come a Face Lift is Muscle Repositioning Oposed to Just Pulling the Skin Back?

When you hear about a face lift you hear the doctors say they have to re position the muscles in the face opposed to what seems to be the obvious thing to do and that is to just pull the skin back and sow???

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