How Long Can I Expect Smart Lift Results to Last?

Many branded mini lifts exist with snazzy names.
They generally share several features: incisions of a real facelift, with less pulling and deep restructuring. Local anesthesia. Inexpensive price.
Usually they are tied to a marketing campaign for which the doctor pays a fee to belong. Doctors are not chosen by reputation or stature in the community. They are chosen by a willingness to be associated with an advertising campaign.
A close look at the feedback reports on this website from these lifts shows a general trend: you get what you pay for. Although the facelift ratings are quite high relative to other procedures, it is typically the patients who paid $5000 for a facelift (this is not a typical fee for a facelift) who are most dissatisfied. Chances are they were expecting full facelift results, and they did not receive them. To the contrary, they often experience excessive scarring due to tight closures inherent in a minilift that pulls hard.
So do your homework, but you won't get $20,000 facelift results for $5000.
Longevity per se of these lifts varies, but is generally in the order of a few years (plus the scars) rather than many years (well placed scars).

There are dozens of techniques advertised with snazzy sounding names such as this. Whilst I do not know exactly what is involved in this particular type of lift, all of these techniques have several things in common. They often have smaller scars and a full facelift, our aggressively advertised as having less recovery time and universally involve less manipulation and reshaping of the soft tissue. This means that the results are universally disappointing, either in terms of the amount of initial correction or the longevity of the result. The bottom line is that there are no shortcuts in facelifting and the only way to get a good, long lasting result is to have a proper facelift performed by properly trained surgeon.

 Most branded Mini-lifts are heavily marketed and advertised. A comprehensive facial rejuvenation involves tightening up facial muscles and jowls, tightening the neck muscles in 3 locations, removal of fat above and below the platysma muscle in the neck, a platysma plasty, and conservatively tightening  excess neck and facial skin For many examples of a comprehensive face and neck lift, please see the link below to our face lift photo  gallery