Friday, April 20, 2012

Interesting facts about facelifts

By Tom Robinson


Apart from client myths in what a facelift really is, patients tend to be unaware that there are various kinds of facelift procedures today.

Included in a fundamental concept of 'matching the solution to the problem', a facelift procedure should match the quality of anatomic facial aging, age of the patient, what recovery a patient desires to undergo, and how much they want to pay for what sort of result.

Many of these considerations enter in the decision in regards to what type of facelift should be done.

Today, facelift operations go by lot of different names that are primarily marketing in origin. Essentially, facelifts may be dividied into two types, limited and full facelifts.

The favourite and marketed facelift today is the limited facelift. It goes by a lot of different names for example short scar facelift, lifestyle lift, MAC lift, quicklift and numerous others, but in the end they all are really the same operation from a patient's perspective.

A limited or 'mini-facelift' is a scaled-down modification of a full facelift where the incision (scar) is restricted to in front of the ear only and the amount of skin raised up and ultimately trimmed off is confined to in front of the ear and down into the jowl area only.

In many cases, liposuction of the neck is done with the limited facelift. This produces a nice change in the jowl and upper neck area that requires only a very short recovery.(less than a week) It can often be performed under twilight anesthesis as an outpatient procedure. It is best used in two types of patients, younger patients who have early signs of aging with only small amount of neck and jowl issues and the older patient (who really needs a full facelift for the best result) who does not want to pass through a complete facelift or, for medical reasons can't experience a full facelift...and is ready to accept as a trade-off an effect that is less than that of a full facelift.

Quite simply, someone who is willing to take some small facial improvement with limited downtime, costs, and risks of complications. When done with other procedures, such as blepharoplasty and chemical or laser skin peels, the final results from a limited facelift are a lot better.




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