Is It Possible To Do A Facelift Without Having Scar in Front of the Hairline?

The "No Scar Facelift" is an excellent way to avoid noticeable facelift scars. We developed this and many surgeons now use this technique where the scar is made inside the ear so it does not show. Your hairdresser often does not even notice this!

There are a lot of very meticulous sutures placed in a face/neck lift  to give the best incision lines and looking as natural as possible. This takes about 5 hrs to do superior quality work. That is why these assembly line like 1 hour facelifts you see advertised on tv all the time give such poor results. Cost is roughly $8800 on special and so worth it. Sincerely, David Hansen,MD

The location of the scar for any facelift, "mini" or not, will be recommended after examination of the individual patient. Those with more than an inch of extra skin to discard in front of the ear might benefit from an incision that goes along the hairline to avoid shifting the sideburn and temporal hairline up and back. There would be the trade-off having more scar visibility. However, the incision can be made with beveling through the fine temporal hairline hairs, and allowing the hair to grow back through the scar, offering some camouflage. Olive toned skin does not necessarily mean more scar visibility.Having a facelift means accepting scars in front of the ear. A mini facelift only means that there is less laxity of facial skin and tissues, the scar is the same.   When the incision is designed to closely follow the curve of the ear cartilage, then goes inside the ear along the edge of the tragus (the flap of cartilage that covers the ear canal), and then exits below the tragus in a natural crease, going around the earlobe, leaving a few millimeters of facial skin attached, then back behind the ear, the scar should heal and be virtually undetectable at social distances. Avoiding tension on the skin, and replacing the earlobe at the correct, natural angle should result in an appearance that does not say "facelift", but looks natural.

I perform mini facelifts and have also incorporated one great non surgical option, which is the Ulthera treatment to tighten the muscle fascia. Raffy Karamanoukian Los Angeles

 

It is possible to have a facelift without incisions in front of the ears - however the results can have less of an impact in the jawline and jowl region.  I perform a retrotragal (inside the ear) incision that allows for great results while creating a seemingly undetectable scar within a few weeks.  This incision works for all skin types, regardless of ethnic background.

There are some midfacelift procedures that do not involve making an incision in front of the ear, however, these procedures rarely provide enough improvement, and more importantly, when performing properly, the more traditional facelift procedures can have incisions that are truly undetectable in as soon as 4 weeks.