Stitches Vs Staples with a Face Lift?

I perform many facelifts and usually use sutures for my incision line, but surgeons vary in technique. Staples are sometimes used in the hair. Raffy Karamanoukian Los Angeles

I use staples in the hair, I agree it is less traumatic for healing and the scar is no different. Some surgeons use staples in breast and abdominal surgery too

Personally, I always use sutures when performing a facelift as I feel it gives me more control as a surgeon and I can approximate the suture line better to obtain the most minimal scar possible.  I like to use dissolving sutures as I have found that it is discomforting for patients to have them removed.  Staples can be used in the hairline with great success but I feel they are not as exact.  Also, it is uncomfortable to have them removed.  It is really not the suture or staple which gives you a good incision line but the talent of the surgeon closing the incision and the tension applied during the facelift.