Face Lift

What is Facelift?

Face lifting helps diminish the effects of aging that causes the skin to loosen on the face and neck. This procedure can give you a considerably younger-looking face and neck. Many people experience renewed self-esteem and renewed vitality.

Aging face results from both skin laxity and loss of volume such as collagen, fat, and bone.

For skin laxity, three types of facelift surgery options exist to lift different areas of the face.

The brow and cheek face lift addresses the upper face, including the brows, temple, and cheeks. upper and/or lower eyelid surgery can be done at the same time. This facelift option primarily lifts the brows and cheeks.

On the other hand, The jowl and neck face lift addresses the lower face, including the areas in front of ear, the jowls, and the neck. Often chin implant and/or fat grafting is done at the same time. This facelift option creates a more graceful lower face and neck contour.

For loss of volume, a volume lift is needed to restore fullness. Volume restoration indirectly lifts the skin, creating a fuller, voluminous, and plumber face. The surgical option is fat grafting.

Depending on one’s condition, one or even three lifts such as brow cheek, jowl neck, and even volume lift surgery options may be appropriate. When multiple lifts are needed, surgeries are generally spaced several weeks apart.

How does this treatment differ from the other options?

For individuals desiring dramatic and rapid improvement and are able to tolerate down-time
Quick and dramatic improvement
Longer lasting
Shorter incision than the traditional facelift
Less recovery than the traditional facelift
Less frequent maintenance
Individually tailored
Three-fold anti-aging action of tissue lifting, fullness restoration, and skin rejuvenation
No foreign implants needed

What Conditions May Be Treated?

Brow and Cheek Lift
Forehead lines
Saggy brows
Saggy upper eyelids
Lax cheeks
Lax lower eyelids
Prominent nasolabial mounds

Jowl and Neck Lift
Lax skin in front of the ear
Lax lower cheeks
Saggy jowls
Saggy corner of the mouth
Neck muscle banding
Double chin
Hollow temples
Sunken eyes
Flattened cheeks
Nasolabial lines
Marionette lines
Receding chin
Thin skin
Dull skin
Excessive body fat deposit
Body contouring

Volume Lift
Hollow temples
Sunken eyes
Flattened cheeks
Nasolabial lines
Marionette lines
Receding chin
Thin skin
Dull skin
Excess body fat deposit
Body contouring

Whom is the treatment for?

1. Patients with realistic expectation
2. Patients in good healthy conditions
3. Stable weight without frequent or excess weight gain or loss

Whom is the treatment not for?

1. Patients with unrealistic expectation
2. Patients with low blood sugar, dehydration, acute disease, autoimmune disorder, blood disorder, cancer, or on bleeding thinning medications.

How is the treatment done?

Brow and Cheek Lift

This lift uses endosopic or small incisions are made the scalp areas to lift up the tissues of the brow and cheeks. Unlike traditional endoscopic technique, only incisions in the scalp are needed, eliminating the need for an additional inside-the-mouth incision. Also unlike traditional endoscopic technique, the shape of the cheeks and brows are individually tailored with deep suspension sutures, eliminating the need for an foreign implant. Unlike the traditional “southern” lift, no skin is actually removed. Temporary fixation devices are placed and then removed within the week.

Jowl and Neck Lift
This lift uses incision hidden in the ear crease to lift up the tissues of the lower cheeks, the jowls, the jawline, and the upper neck. Unlike traditional facelift with longer incision, this incision is shorter. And unlike traditional facelift, the face is not just lifted, but the fullness is restored with growth factors and stem cells enriched micro-droplet fat grafting. Furthermore, unlike traditional facelift where the skin is stretched, the skin is actually rejuvenated and re-thickened with HDGF and Fat Stem Cells, restoring suppleness to the aging skin.

Volume Lift
This lift uses small punctures to inject nutritionally enriched micro-droplet fat to restore volume to the face and the combined fat stem cells with high density growth factors to the skin for skin rejuvenation.

The fat is harvested from any areas of excess body fat using the EasyLipo technique. Under tumescent local anesthesia, the excess fat is removed, using “micro liposuction” technique, with small cannulas. When power is used, the microcannulas are used in reciprocating motion so that one often feels the like getting an “internal massage.” The fat is gently, incrementally, and progressively removed, layer by layer, without heat, while preserving the stem cell-rich fat cells in the extraction chamber.

In this state-of-the-art procedure, the extracted stem-cell rich fat cells can be processed into small-particle sized fat cells, with the stem cells extracted, and high density growth factors from platelet rich plasma added for enhanced augmentation, regenerative, and anti-aging effects.

Depending on one’s condition, one or even three lifts such as brow cheek, jowl neck, and even volume lift surgery options may be appropriate. When multiple lifts are needed, surgeries are generally spaced several weeks apart.

The surgery takes about four hours in an outpatient surgery center.

Local or general anesthesia may be used.

What results may be expected?

Brow and Cheek Lift
Smoother forehead
Lifted brows
Lifted upper eyelids
Tighter cheeks
Lifted lower eyelids
Less prominent nasolabial mounds

Jowl and Neck Lift
Tighter skin in front of the ear
Lifted lower cheeks
Reduced jowls
Lifted corner of the mouth
Reduced Neck muscle banding
Removed double chin
Voluminous temples
Reduced sunken eyes
Fuller cheeks
Filled in Nasolabial lines
Filled in Marionette lines
Stronger chin
Thicker skin
More supple skin
Reduced excess body fat deposit
Body contouring

Volume Lift
Voluminous temples
Reduced sunken eyes
Fuller cheeks
Filled in Nasolabial lines
Filled in Marionette lines
Stronger chin
Thicker skin
More supple skin
Reduced excess body fat deposit
Body contouring

When will one see the results?

The results are seen immediately.

How long do the results last?

Results last years.

How to maintain or enhance my results?

Additional maintenance is required, although less frequent and less intensive than non-surgical options.
Healthy eating and exercise are helpful to enhance results.
Further treatment may be recommended for further results.

What is the recovery like?

Recovery lasts two week, with most people returning to work and activities thereafter.
Temporary swelling, soreness, and mild bruising are expected. Gravity dependent areas may have more temporary swelling.
Prescription pain medications may be needed.

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Cost of Treatments

Cost of treatment options ranges from three to five digits. An in-person consultation with your specialist physician will help to determine the best suitable solution to your own individual needs.

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