How do you treat it? Will medical grade skincare help/fix it? Can you look at someone and tell they have bad skin? PS blamed my skin for my loose skin after a fl/nl. What are my options now?
Answer: What exactly is "poor quality skin"? This is a great question and I'm sure one that many patients have. Skin quality can be compromised by many things including weight gain and loss, sun damage, pregnancy, and age. Some patients genetically are predisposed to poor skin quality. Poor skin quality refers to skin that has lost elasticity and appears to be loose, crepey, and/or have stretch marks. This type of skin does not have the ability to "snap back" once stretched out. While procedures can be done to remove the loose skin, it will always be more susceptible to stretching again and your results may tend to have less longevity than a patient with good quality, elastic skin. Once the excess skin is removed surgically, you can have laser treatments to help improve the surface texture.
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Answer: What exactly is "poor quality skin"? This is a great question and I'm sure one that many patients have. Skin quality can be compromised by many things including weight gain and loss, sun damage, pregnancy, and age. Some patients genetically are predisposed to poor skin quality. Poor skin quality refers to skin that has lost elasticity and appears to be loose, crepey, and/or have stretch marks. This type of skin does not have the ability to "snap back" once stretched out. While procedures can be done to remove the loose skin, it will always be more susceptible to stretching again and your results may tend to have less longevity than a patient with good quality, elastic skin. Once the excess skin is removed surgically, you can have laser treatments to help improve the surface texture.
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Answer: What is "poor quality skin" When that comment was made to you it was probably used to mean a loss of elasticity of the skin.This of course happens to everyone as a normal part of the aging process, but the changes can be more significant in some patients due to a combination of genetics and environmental factors (excess sun exposure, smoking, etc). The problem that this presents with facelift surgery is that there is an increased amount of relaxation of the skin and underlying tissues after surgery has been done. You can lift, reposition, support, tighten, etc, etc, etc all you want, but that does not stop the fact that there will inevitably be tissue relaxation after surgery.Again, this happens with all patients, but in someone who has much more loss of elasticity than the average patient you must know how that impacts the healing after surgery and how it adds a few limitations to what can reasonably accomplished. Patients in this category also have a higher likelihood of needing an early "tuck-up" or retightening procedure.
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Answer: What is "poor quality skin" When that comment was made to you it was probably used to mean a loss of elasticity of the skin.This of course happens to everyone as a normal part of the aging process, but the changes can be more significant in some patients due to a combination of genetics and environmental factors (excess sun exposure, smoking, etc). The problem that this presents with facelift surgery is that there is an increased amount of relaxation of the skin and underlying tissues after surgery has been done. You can lift, reposition, support, tighten, etc, etc, etc all you want, but that does not stop the fact that there will inevitably be tissue relaxation after surgery.Again, this happens with all patients, but in someone who has much more loss of elasticity than the average patient you must know how that impacts the healing after surgery and how it adds a few limitations to what can reasonably accomplished. Patients in this category also have a higher likelihood of needing an early "tuck-up" or retightening procedure.
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December 23, 2017
Answer: What Is Poor Quality Skin and How Do You Treat It? Poor Quality Skin Has Lost Elasticity; May Respond to Laser Therapy Poor quality skin, in terms of a facelift, is skin that has lost elasticity due to age and/or other factors, such as smoking or extreme weight gain and loss. Unfortunately, once your skin has lost elasticity, improving its quality is quite difficult. In my opinion, your facial plastic surgeon should have alerted you to the quality of your skin before your procedure, so you could adjust your expectations.
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December 23, 2017
Answer: What Is Poor Quality Skin and How Do You Treat It? Poor Quality Skin Has Lost Elasticity; May Respond to Laser Therapy Poor quality skin, in terms of a facelift, is skin that has lost elasticity due to age and/or other factors, such as smoking or extreme weight gain and loss. Unfortunately, once your skin has lost elasticity, improving its quality is quite difficult. In my opinion, your facial plastic surgeon should have alerted you to the quality of your skin before your procedure, so you could adjust your expectations.
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December 16, 2017
Answer: Poor quality skin. Skin has several components to it, collagen, elastin, etc, that give it it's strength and elasticity. these are abundant in youth and so the skin is thicker, and stronger. Numerous things can lead to decreasing skin strength and elasticity such as aging, sun damage, smoking, prior excess weight gain, poor nutrition, certain drugs, etc and there are some people who have a genetic defects in the strength of their collagen. A facelift/necklift is done by tightening the deeper layers and smoothing the skin over this tightened deeper layer. If the skin has lost it strength and elasticity, it may look good for a period of time but will loosen over time and some of the results will be lost over time. There may be an option for a revision to improve your result but you should check with your plastic surgeon. Best wishes.
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December 16, 2017
Answer: Poor quality skin. Skin has several components to it, collagen, elastin, etc, that give it it's strength and elasticity. these are abundant in youth and so the skin is thicker, and stronger. Numerous things can lead to decreasing skin strength and elasticity such as aging, sun damage, smoking, prior excess weight gain, poor nutrition, certain drugs, etc and there are some people who have a genetic defects in the strength of their collagen. A facelift/necklift is done by tightening the deeper layers and smoothing the skin over this tightened deeper layer. If the skin has lost it strength and elasticity, it may look good for a period of time but will loosen over time and some of the results will be lost over time. There may be an option for a revision to improve your result but you should check with your plastic surgeon. Best wishes.
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December 12, 2017
Answer: Why skin quality determines facelift results Age and environmental factors such as sun exposure cause the skin to thin, lose elasticity, and weaken. Once this occurs to significant degree, it will not stay smooth and tight no matter the skill of the surgeon. medical grades kin care products are a start, but energy-based treatments such as Ultherapy or radiofrequency should be considered.
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December 12, 2017
Answer: Why skin quality determines facelift results Age and environmental factors such as sun exposure cause the skin to thin, lose elasticity, and weaken. Once this occurs to significant degree, it will not stay smooth and tight no matter the skill of the surgeon. medical grades kin care products are a start, but energy-based treatments such as Ultherapy or radiofrequency should be considered.
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