Facelift Incisions - Concerned About Raised Sideburns?

your are justified in your fear of having raised sideburns.  in my opinion it makes people look like alians.  favor techniques that avoid this.  well placed and closed pre(inter)trichial incisions heal well and the scars can be quite difficult to see. 

There are many different approaches to facelift surgery incisions.

The best approach, in my opinion, is to place the superior portion of the incision above the temporal hairline. It is angled in such a way and placed high enough that there is no obvious raising of the sideburns. More importantly, there is no visible scar below the hairline in this region.

An excellent vertical vector to this portion of the facelift can still be carried out with a very natural final result using this approach. This incision can also be connected to an endoscopic brow lift incision if elevation of the brow is desirable at the same time as your facelift surgery.

A hair transplant could be performed at the same time as a facelift procedure, but is generally not necessary.

Thank you for your question. A hair transplant is best after the facelift is performed.  Discuss your concerns with your Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, and there may be options available for you which protect sideburn height. I hope this helps.

I use incisions that follow the horizontal hairline (sideburn hairline) so that I am not removing any hair and not changing the hairline.  If the incisions are placed properly in front of the ear and behind the ear, the hairline will not be changed at all.  If a patient has had surgery that raised the hairline, then hair transplants can be done to correct this.  

Use of the sideburn-sparing incision, where essentially a horizontal incision is made just along the bottom edge of the sideburn, is able to save the sideburns.  This is my preferred technique, because of its significant advantage.