What is the difference in incisions between lower face lift, mini lift and/or neck lift?

Dear Bunny,
You ask an interesting question.  
I do not believe that the same incision works for every patient and take many factors into account when planning incisions. The length and location of the incisions should be individualized for each patient, taking into account the aging changes, the length of the sideburns, the hairline in front, above and behind the ears,shape of the ears and the amount of redundant or loose skin to be removed. The quality of the final result is far more important than the length of the scar and the location is important in avoiding obvious visible scars and the stigmata of a facelift. I have a chapter (41) in my book “The Art of Aesthetic Surgery” discussing length and location of scars for optimal results.

There different incisions when you're doing facelift surgery because each incision has an advantage and disadvantage. When you're doing efface the phone a man versus woman deviating the sideburns becomes more of an issue in a man where it's a nonissue and a woman. Each patient has different problems a person's problem is only the neck could have just a neck left with a scar behind the ear and the hairline. A person with good cheek dissent may do better with a full facelift.

The key to a facelift is that when people see you they don't know you had surgery they just know you look good so adapting the incisions that will give you the desired result and keep you from looking surgical is the answer to an ideal facelift. Another new twist to these incision choices is fat transfer to the face. Fat for transfer to the cheeks and lower lid may be used to avoid a facelift and maybe downstage the facelift to a neck lift. The goal is to get a good natural look and for no one to know you had surgery.