The facelift

ACHIEVING A MORE NATURAL AND YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE

With age the skin of your face will drop, you will get wrinkles and cheek fat and other structures of your face wil sag downwards. The skin will loose it’s elasticity and become lax.

Hereditary factors and way of life (e.g. smoking, execssive sun bathing, stress and drinking) play an important role here too.

A facelift can be helpful for people as from their mid thirties onwards. Younger people should better start for less invasive treatments, such as fillers or laser treatments.

The plastic surgeon will lift and tighten the underlying muscles of the face to create a more aesthetically pleasing contours appearance and rejuvenate the facial structure.

When performed by a qualified cosmetic surgeon, a facelift is a safe procedure and excellent way to achieve a more naturally youthful appearance.

A lifting is not the only option to improve the look of your face, also Botox® injections, fillers and an eyelid correction may change your look.

Many people think that a facelift involves operating on the entire face, so also eyes, brows, cheeks and chin. Your eyes and forehead are after all part of your face. However, a facelift only treats the lower two thirds of the face, cheeks and jawline.

The facelift is certainly the most efficient way to rejuvenate your face!

Facelift: consultation

If you are considering having a face lift it is very important to be well informed and to make an appointment with a plastic surgeon.

Our plastic surgeon will evaluate your face and judge which type of treatment which is most suitable for you.

Our plastic surgeon will also ask you questions about:

• Your health in general
• Previous surgeries you had done
• Your medication
• Your alcohol and cigarette consumption

Facelift and the type of anesthesia

A lifting can be performed both under local or general anesthetic. This will depend on:

• Your personal choice
• Your medical history
• The technique to be applied

facelift: Techniques

Our surgeon will also inform you regarding instructions to be followed before and after your surgery. You will get explanations about the scars of the facelift, the recovery process and the result to be obtained.

To treat the lower part of the face we offer a whole range of surgical facelift options and techniques. Depending on the needs of your face.

In general we can offer three different techniques for the face lift:

• Mini face lift, also called the MACS lift (Minimal Access Cranial Suspension), s lift or minilift: this is a technique with minimal scarring, where the underlying muscles of the cheeks and jaw line are lifted
• Neck lift : this is technique wich is applied in order to lift the skin and the underlying tissues of the neck
• Facelift : this is a combination of a mini face lift and neck lift, which lifts the skin and underlying tissues of the cheeks, jaw line and neck

There are many different types of facelifts and this may be confusing. All types of facelifts involve some manipulation of the SMAS (Superficial Muscular Aponeurotic System) . This addresses the underlying muscles of the skin and allows the surgeon the elevate, reposition and lift the face and not just tighten the skin. All of the techniques for face lift offered at Clinic BeauCare may be called a SMAS lift.

The drawings below show the different techniques used for a lifting, from left to right the three possible procedure: (i) the necklift, (ii) the minilift and (iii) the (full) facelift, including neck lift and minilift.

Facelift: results

The final result of a facelift may be judged as from three months after the surgery. You will look younger and fresher and it will make you feel good.

A lifting won’t treat all wrinkles of your face. You will still have wrinkles when talking and laughing, which will remain. Also fine wrinkles around mouth and eyelids will not completely dissapear with a face lift.

Careful placement of incisions in natural creases in front of the ears, in the skin on the back of the ears, and in the hairline around the ears will camouflage the scars.

The scars will fade away in time, become less red will turn to a tiny white line, often nearly unnoticeable.

A face lift can’t stop the aging process but it can certainly turn back the clock.

Face: Prices in Euros

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