| How much can be improved ? |
Everyone is different with a facelift. The older the patient, the more dramatic is the result. It is easier to keep a young patient looking young than make an old patient look younger. Revision results are often less exciting. The improvement usually lasts years, at least ten or twenty. If most people have a lift at forty or fifty, they may have a second one at sixty or seventy. Some people can't stand the smallest wrinkle and come back sooner. Again, things never end up as tight as you can make them and after six months and a year they relax quite a bit. That's why they may look too taunt at the beginning.A fold between the nose and mouth is normal. Don't be surprise if it recurs. With an incision under the chin, excess skin and fat can be tucked very well. Liposuction may serve well enough in young patients with just some excess fat. Scars are usually easy to hide. |
Options : Facelifts |
As the skin of the face sags from gravity, many people consider the possibility of having a facelift. Tremendous improvement can be achieved by returning a youthful appearance through a well-done procedure. |
Deep folds versus superficial wrinkles |
There are two aspects to wrinkling of the face. One are the heavy deep folds that tend to create a down hanging appearance, particularly in the jowl region along the jaw line and the neck. These are the result of gravity dragging the face downward.
Second are the more superficial wrinkles in the surface of the skin and these are often addressed separately. They are the consequence of sun-damage and aging.
The deep folds and heavy skin can be corrected with the face lift. Fine wrinkles and skin irregularities may need separate treatment by peeling, dermabrasion, or some other means.
We will discuss skin treatments in the next section. Some skin procedures that tighten the skin may support the deep tissue for a while. In some patients, the problems with the jowls and hanging chin can be treated well with liposuction or some other simple fat removal procedure. It is usually a question of whether the problem is primarily hanging skin and loose muscle or whether it is also excess fat. Each person is different |
How much younger can I look with a face Lift ? |
The older you are the younger you'll look, so that if we do a facelift on someone who is seventy years old who has never had a face lift, the change is much more dramatic than if someone is fifty, if for no other reason than their face has been sagging for that much longer.
I try not to number the years that a person may improve after a facelift. Patients may bring a picture from a certain age and ask if they can look like that again. I try to convince them not to think of it that way. You will look different after a facelift and younger, of course. Because of the re-draping of the skin, you will never look like you did before at one particular age.
In general with implants, some women's chests can support larger breast than others. Initially a small implant may be placed and after several years, when the skin stretches, a larger implant may be more suitable. Generally the breast can go up two sizes, meaning that A's can go to small C's, and B's can go to small D's
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How old should I be when I get a face lift ? |
The answer to this is different for everyone and depends on the amount of loose skin that is hanging and also on how much it bothers you. Some people want to reverse the earliest signs of aging and some people are less concerned. There is an axiom that "It is easier to keep a young person looking young than it is to make an old person look young".
Generally speaking, if a person has a facelift at age forty or forty-five, they might request a second somewhere around sixty or sixty-five and usually that is about it. Just like other procedures in plastic surgery, when you ask how long will this procedure last, it is relative. The first signs of the tissues relaxing may occur in only a few years. Before you would return to your original condition, easily ten or twenty years could go by. You would never truly return to that original appearance in any case. |