Face lift plastic surgery
Performing Face Lift Plastic Surgery is something many middle- aged women and men think about. This occurs especially when they are constantly reminded with the endless media commercials and also while watching the digitally enhanced photos in magazines of TV actresses and actors.
However, there are good reasons when you look in the mirror and see the face resembling your parents or an older age image of you that you are not ready to accept yet. Therefore, thinking about having a face lift is something valid to process in your mind and see if it is the right choice for you.
Myth: Cosmetic Face Lift is a surgery that includes the whole face.
Fact: Cosmetic Face Lift Surgery is a lower face and neck lift procedure and it does not include the upper half of the face.
One of the physical reasons why individuals, particularly women, seek the surgery for something, like,
- the skin of the cheeks are sagging or loose
- Pronounced skin folds around the nose area especially with a facial expression like laughing can be very visible
- The skin folds on both sides of the mouth
- Lost of contour between the neck and the face due to the falling down of the skin where the chin is and down the neck.
The Face Lift Surgery can improve the lower face by reducing the pronounced folds around the nose and the mouth. But these folds don’t completely disappear.
And you will have the same effect in the neck area where the skin can be lifted, and you will end up with a noticeable appearance and visible contour line to distinguish the neck from the chin.
As you know by now from reading the fact and myth lines, there are limitations of what a face lift can improve and what it can’t. Let’s go over these limitations so you know what to expect.
Face Lift Limitations
Although you can have satisfying results with this type of surgery by enhancing the look of the neck and lower part of the face, nevertheless, it does nothing to enhance the look of your upper face region which are the eyelids and the forehead areas.
It also won’t improve the texture, discoloration (for example, a lack of a vivid complexion), and wrinkles of the skin if you have any of those. These improvements are done through different procedures like using Botox, superficial peels, and filler injections to name some.
Options other than Face Lift
An excellent cosmetic surgeon can distinguish between the need of a face lift or Liposuction procedures. There are many women who have tight skin that is not loose, but they do have a fatty tissue accumulation on the neck where the neck line goes up to the chin which has disappeared.
If you have both loose skin and a fat accumulation on the neck area, it is advised by renowned cosmetic surgeons to perform a face lift rather than liposuction surgery.
Things to Watch For
If the whole face which includes, eyelids, forehead, lower face and neck, all need improvements, then maybe you should consider performing a whole face surgery. Of course, it will cost more money and that way you can have an appearance uniformity where you will look younger with the whole face. Not only will the lower part. keep the face synchronized and harmonized because that is the whole idea of performing cosmetic surgery.
Face Lift Recovery
With everything going nice and smooth, so to speak, the reduction of the swelling and bruising will take between 7 to 21 days on the average depending on your body’s ability on how fast it can heal. The stitches can be removed as early as five days and may be as long as 12 days. And most likely there will be cheek numbness that will last two weeks or longer.
Many cosmetic surgeons will allow their patients to go back to work within a week. However, the after-surgery appearance might be something to consider because you will look…well let’s put this way--somewhat different!
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