 Face
surgery has been practiced since early XX century, and since that time face
lifting is the top wanted surgery among women and men. Though the procedure
itself has undertaken sea changes till present, it is still under advance. The
effect of surgical operations could last from 7 to 15 years provided that
sophisticated and qualified techniques are applied.
A woman at
the age of 45 to 65 is highly recommended for face lifting. However,
specialists note that recently the surgery ‘gets younger', and women at the age
of 30 to 35 do not neglect this procedure, and the number of women waiting for
this surgery is growing. This is good if it is required by the skin while many other
conservative techniques do not help to keep your skin beautiful and young.
If you
decide for Face Lift you should know that you choose the effective technique to
correct ageing changes, including uplift of face, neck and chin skin. When you
get older and on the top of it you abuse smoking, you probably notice that your
skin gets flabby and wrinkled faster unlike women who do not smoke. This case,
you have to prepare for the surgery and stop smoking for two weeks before the
surgery and for a few weeks after. The point is that when you smoke blood
supply to skin vessels is reduced and post-operation healing and rehabilitation
process might be slowed. Face lifting help to trim excess skin and smooth skin
of the forehead, temples, face and neck. The ones with irregular face oval will
want this procedure to correct the face oval, and more over, this procedure
lifts and strengthens superficial and profound muscular and aponeurotic system,
and followed by liposuction, it helps to remove the second chin.
Advise the
surgeon on any medications you administer at the time you want your face
lifted. And it is very important to tell about your allergy, if any. On the top
of it, you will be additionally examined prior to surgery.
During Face
Lift Surgery, the surgeon makes a long incision starting in the temple area
above the hairline. The incision goes along the anterior edge of the auricle, comes
to the lobule and rounding goes to the cervical area. Such an incision
separates the facial skin from the underlying tissues of temples, cheeks and
neck. Excess fat tissues and skin are removed then, and the skin is
repositioned with stitches or staples. It is not so rare when the face uplift
comes along with liposuction procedure which helps to remove fatty tissues from
the chin area, cheeks and frontal area of the neck. If and when necessary, the
plastic surgeon adds particular areas of fatty layer. Another face lifting
procedure is so-called SMAS Lift. SMAS is an acronym for Superficial Muscular
Aponeurotic System. It refers to an area of musculature of the face deeply
under the skin. Unlike the classic face lifting procedure, the deep lifting is
far more effective, yet the result is stable for a longer period of time.
However, the disadvantage of the Deep Plane Lift is much more traumatic since
the surgeon lifts and repositions the SMAS, but he or she goes even deeper than
they would with the traditional SMAS lift.
The
high-tech facelift using an endoscope, a pencil-shaped probe with a tiny camera
attached to it, may be conducted for face lifting purposes. The typical
endoscopic facelift requires three or more short incisions concealed in the
hairline and/or behind the ears. Many types of facelifts can be done endoscopically.
And this is the advantage of this technique that scars are almost invisible.
Usually people between 30 and 40 are likely to have endoscopic face lift
surgery. Face Lift surgery is made under general anesthesia. And it lasts from 2
to 4 hours, however the length of the operation may depend on the complexity of
the treated area and scope of work. The face might get swollen after the surgery
followed by painful feelings in minor cases. Edema goes away within 2-3 weeks.
And during this period susceptibility of the face skin is reduced for
short-time period. And one should not be afraid of big and long incisions for
they are successfully concealed in natural folds of skin and in hair. The stitches
are removed on the 7-12 day after the surgery.
After 3 to
4 weeks you can assess the preliminary effect of the surgery, and finally the
effect of the operation will make you happy in two months. Avoid physical loads
within first several weeks after the surgery. Also you need to reduce going to bathhouses
and saunas, staying in the sun for longer time. The effect of Face Lift Surgery
will stay for 7 to 10 years and the operation can be repeated again, if and
when necessary.
Both
Classic Lift and Deep Plane Lift is a delicate work compared with art of
jewelers. Yet, make sure that a highly qualified specialist will do the Face
Lift procedure for you. This is made forever, and you cannot have your face
back if surgery is done wrongly. When choosing the clinics and the plastic
surgeon, consider the education, license, experience in practicing surgery,
recommendations by the patients and references from colleagues in regards of
the surgeon that will do the Face Lift for you.
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