I'm 31 & really unhappy with my lower face and how I'm aging. I have dark shadows/marionette lines that I can't get rid of. I've done facial rebalancing w filler in cheeks/jaw, microneedling, & botox in DAO & platysma muscles. I feel like it's just from the way my mouth rests & it pulls down. I would like a mini lift but 1 doctor I consulted with said I wasn't a candidate. He suggested ProfoundRF but also I've heard of PDO threads? Help pls!!
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Your skin appears thin, so that radiofrequency treatments will be limited in what they can do. You would probably like the mini-facelift, but I doubt the deep plane approach is needed for you now.
Hello, hope you are well. Thanks for sharing your photo, background, and questions. It's not really "normal practice" to use a laser to make skin incisions for a facelift. There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, but the vast majority of facelift surgeons use cold steel (a scalpel)....
A mini facelift could possibly be performed while on Warfarin, with the understanding of the increased possibility of post operative hematomas and need for reoperation. Minimizing the amount of skin elevation, meticulous hemostasis at the time of surgery, use of hemostatic agents ( intravenous...
