Facelifts To Reduce The Aging Process - By: Dave Stringham

Considering a facelift its becoming ever more popular and will make patients feel rejuvenated. Many other surgeries to consider with this are facelifts, browlifts, and eyelid lifts.

Many special techniques of minimal incision, "mini-facelifts," as well as minimally-invasive endoscopic midface lifts, and has been a pioneer in the use of new technologies which can dramatically reduce swelling and speed recovery time to less than a week.

Facelift surgery, or a rhytidectomy, is offered in office and is designed to restore a more youthful appearance by removing major wrinkles and sagging skin. It involves tightening of the facial and neck muscles as well as the removal of any excess skin.

Plastic surgeons feels strongly that the deeper tissue layers of the face need to be lifted and repositioned to achieve a more natural appearance in facelift surgery. Failure to do this is part of the reason for the "pulled" appearance often seen after "skin-only" facelifts.

The skin begins to wrinkle and sag as a result of age, sun exposure and genetics. Children and young adults have smooth, round faces due to evenly distributed fatty tissues in facial contours. Over time, the skin sags and folds around the chin, jawline and neck become prominent.

Not only does a facelift improve facial appearance but also has a dramatic effect on the neck, enhancing its contour and profile. Facelifts performed often make a patient look 10 to 15 years younger.

Dramatic as the end results are, this is not a simple procedure. It requires a week to 10 days of recovery.

Your surgeon will evaluate your medical history in order to determine your overall health.

Your surgeon will discuss with you how your face can look and what you can expect from surgery. Our objective is to create a natural appearance that is pleasing to you. Before and After photographs will reveal what the surgery has accomplished.

Preoperative Instructions typically involve avoiding drugs that contain aspirin several weeks prior to surgery to minimize excess bleeding. You may be required to take antibiotics to prevent infection. You may be instructed to shampoo your hair the night before surgery. A small amount of hair may be shaved around your ears and temples.

A facelift is frequently performed in conjunction with blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), forehead lift, chin augmentation, and/or liposuction, to create an overall rejuvenation of the face. The procedure can be repeated as gravity continues its effects after the first surgery.

Facelifts are performed in fully-accredited outpatient surgical centers in. General anesthesia or intravenous sedation with laryngeal mask airway are most commonly used in our office.

For an endoscopic midface lift, appropriate for patients in their mid-30's to 40's with midface aging but without much "jowling" (sagging over jawline), the surgeon makes hidden incisions in the temporal hair and inside the mouth.

For a facelift, appropriate for patients in their early 40's to 60's with aging in the lower face and neck will makes incisions inside the hairline at the temple, coursing just inside the ear, then around the earlobe and behind the ear, ending at the scalp area. Plastic surgeons have developed a unique method of tailoring each facelift to the individual patient, lifting the deep fibromuscular layer of the face and tailoring the removal of skin in the most appropriate direction.

This creates a natural rejuvenation that addresses the key signs of aging in each patient's face. The procedure may take up to 5 hours depending on whether any other procedures are performed at the same time.

About the Author

Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about plastic surgery in Los Angeles, California and cosmetic surgery procedures such as los angeles facelifts, rhinoplasty, tummy tuck, liposuction, and arm lift.

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