Mini facelift: what does it include and cost?

Mini facelift is a very vague term and means different things to different surgeons. Usually it is a way to attract patients who like the idea and think it will cost less. I suggest you go on a few consults. You’ll notice that every surgeon will tell you something different.

A mini facelift lift tends to give mini results, and we rarely ever perform them. A mini lift does not include any work in the neck. In our practice, the goal of a lower face and neck lift is to tighten loose facial and neck skin, tighten loose facial and neck muscles, lift the jowls, and remove fat deposits in the neck, which also includes a platysma plasty. Regarding your eyelids, upper blepharoplasty and lower blepharoplasty are two different procedures. All of these can be combined when necessary. A full set of photographs would be required to make a determination about being a candidate for these three procedures.

Your questions are a bit vague.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of the concept of mini facelift. The procedure delivers all of the negative aspects without the major benefits of a properly done facelift. This is true for many mini procedures.
If you’re interested in having cosmetic surgery, then the first step is to get an accurate assessment, followed by a good understanding of various treatment options. I always recommend people avoid the temptation of making their own assessment, and avoid prescribing their own procedures.
A facelift is not going to include eyelid surgery. These are generally always separate procedures that have little to do with each other. Other than that they’re often done together.
A facelift and a neck lift is generally more or less the same operation. A facelift basically treat the lower 1/3 of the face and neck.
Some patients and some providers use the term neck lift because of potential stigma of the term “facelift”
Without seeing pictures, we can begin to make an assessment, which is what you need.
The cost for facelift surgery varies dramatically. Chasing after difficult cosmetic surgery especially facelift is probably not very wise.
You’ll be living with the outcome every day for the rest of your life.
Facelift surgery if mini facelift are included can range from $1000-$50,000.
To get an accurate assessment, and better understanding of treatment options, and I get guidance in the decision making and I suggest focusing your efforts on finding the right provider. The following are some general guidelines to help find the best provider for your needs.
To find the best provider, I suggest patient schedule multiple in person consultations with experienced plastic surgeons in their community. During each consultation, ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before and after pictures of previous patients who have similar body or facial characteristics to your own. An experienced plastic surgeon should have no difficulty showing you the before and after pictures of at least 50 previous patients. An experienced provider should in fact have hundreds or preferably thousands of before and after pictures to choose from for commonly performed procedures.
Being shown a handful of preselected images, representing the best results of a provider’s career is insufficient to get a clear understanding of what average results will look like in the hands of each provider.
There is no correct number of consultations needed to find the best provider. The more consultations you scheduled the more likely you are to find the best provider for your needs.
Take careful notes during each consultation, especially regarding the quantity and quality of before and after pictures. It’s not a bad idea to bring pictures of your own body/face to use as reference when reviewing before and after pictures.
The biggest mistake patients make is scheduling only one consultation without properly vetting or comparing providers before scheduling surgery.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD