Face Lift - What to Expect

Now we take better care of our skin, do not smoke and avoid tanning beds. We spend millions of dollars each year on wrinkle creams, moisturizers and facial masks. Unfortunately, we eat poorly and put our bodies under undue pressure like never before. Some of us choose to age gracefully and wear our wrinkles with pride. For the rest of us dye our hair and look to plastic surgery to help us maintain the vestiges of youth. Even if it works, eat well and treat our bodies perfectly still is a part of us that will always tell our true age. For this there is always the option of having a facelift.

A face lift is to take the skin that has begun to recede and wrinkle and tightening the underlying bone. To be successful, the patient should be in good health. Every year people are having this become increasingly younger, but still mainly looking for people in their environment than fifty years. The goal is not to make the person look different than it did before, but simply to tighten and smooth the skin and just make everything look younger.

Some people think they can simply slip into a face lift in the afternoon, but there are real risks involved. All surgical procedures be at risk for blood loss or nerve palsy. There is also the danger of bruising and uniformity of expression. Complications happen that are beyond the control of either the surgeon or patient. But having a doctor trained and experienced work relieves much of the risk. Before deciding to undergo surgery a person should consult a doctor and discuss these complications. Some side effects are temporary or short-lived, but others, such as allergic reactions to anesthesia, can cause serious, potentially fatal.

Although a facelift should not be exposed to light is often an outpatient procedure. The doctor makes an incision an inch long or less in the hairline to hide the scar. Then tightened and shortened muscles and skin on the forehead and around the eyes before suturing the incision upwards. All said that the operation has a couple of hours and has about a month of recovery time. Most people are able to go home that day, although in some cases, depending on the procedure, your doctor may cause the patient to stay overnight.

Short Scar Face Lift - Rhytidectomy

Short-scar face lift with extended SMAS platysma dissection and lifting and limited skin Neutralization
 

Face lift or rhytidectomy is a surgical procedure to improve visible signs of aging on the face and neck. As individuals age, skin and muscles of the face begin to lose tone. The facelift can not stop the aging process. You can improve the most visible signs of aging by tightening deeper structures, re-dry the skin of the face and neck, and removing selected areas of fat. A facelift can be done alone or in combination with other procedures such as brow lift, liposuction, eyelid surgery, or nasal surgery.
 

Face liftsurgery is individualized for each patient. The best candidates for facelift surgery have a face and neckline begin to sag, but whose skin has elasticity and whose bone structure is well defined.

Background

Short-scar facelift is a procedure with the ability to meet the high standards of minimal scars and deformities, without obvious signs of tampering. In the short-scar cervicofacial rhytidectomy (also known as the S-lift), dissection extended to the maximum correction combined with a short scar and reduced signs of tampering. In the last eight years this technique has been used with great success and a high level of patient satisfaction. It describes the S-Lift and the return of this technique in its most complex, which is reserved for patients with severe damage aging and redundant neck skin to a simpler technique that is sufficient for most patients young people with moderate age-related changes.

Overview

The initial incisions in this procedure are limited incisions in the sideburn and preauricular areas, which extends around the top of the ear lobe. Wide undermining the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) / platysma is performed, and the lifting of the face and neck is mainly at this level. minimum skin undermining is performed, which eliminates the need for large incisions to reduce dog ears. The preservation of fibrous bands between the skin and the SMAS / platysma unit is an important factor that an operation like this practice, and preservation of these fibrous bands facilitates the use of short skin incision. The dissection of large areas of skin and skin separating the underlying SMAS require larger incisions.

Conclusions

The S-lift has been shown to be safe, fast, less traumatic and well tolerated in patients at high risk of complications, such as smokers. This procedure also reduces the risk of complications.