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You
are looking in the mirror one day and you
wonder when it happened, the jowls, the lines
around the corners of your mouth and the loose
skin on your neck.
Many women who come to me for a facelift express
the frustration of wanting to look the way they feel.
They are rested, happy and content with their lives
but many say they look tired, angry or unhappy.
Their big concern however, is that a facelift might
make them look stretched and unnatural. |
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Take heart, today’s
facelift is a sophisticated surgical procedure that will leave
you looking 5 – 10 years younger and instead of looking lifted, you will look
rested, healthy, and refreshed. These new surgical techniques not only leave you
looking natural but facelifts now last longer than ever before.
The basic concept behind a facelift is to remove excess skin on the face and
neck, and tighten the underlying tissues and muscles. This will smooth out the
neck and return the clean contours to your face. This procedure takes 3 to 5
hours and is done under local or general anesthesia depending on the comfort
level of the patient. Every effort is made to keep the scarring minimal. Incisions
are placed along the hairline from the temple down around the ear lobe and are
hidden behind the ear and in the hair. If fat needs to be removed in the neck a
small incision is placed underneath the chin.
The skin is separated from the sagging tissues and muscles which are then
tightened. The skin is pulled up and back and the excess is removed. Scars are
unavoidable but are placed in natural skin lines and they do fade over time. The
pain is easily controlled by medication and after one week no dressings are
necessary. The bruising and swelling may last 2 to 3 weeks which is when you
will see how much younger and refreshed you look.
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