Aesthetic
Face Lift
The basic information about facelift surgery
It is not a must that every person be aware of how old you have became but as you grow older, it is harder hiding it from other people. The elasciticity of the skin loosen up and the youthful smooth contours of the face start to disappear because there is no long fatty tissues that are evenly distributed, the wrinkles multiply around the mouth and the eyes while the skin found on the chin area start to sag.
Now you can hide your age by undergoing a facelift also called Rhytidectomy.
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How can I know that I am the right candidate for a facelift?
The Rhytidectomy or a facelift can restore the youthful appearance when it removes the sagging skin and the major wrinkles.
Women and men around the entire world experienced the revitalizing effect of the facelift surgery. For the men, the procedure is going to eliminate the sagging skin found on the jawline and neck and this helps to establish a chiselled appearance that they had in their youth. For the women, the facelift helps to achieve a smooth facial contour with the overall feminine softness that had been lost because of the gravity, aging and sun damage.
Everyone can get the facelift regardless of the age and this is good news for even senior citizen. The facelift can be done even in the patients who are over 70 years old and they get successful results.
The goal of the surgery is correcting the facial aging on the two third of the lower face. Depending on which type of the surgery used, the facelift can address the following.
- The fat lost in the cheek area
- Nasolabial folds or marionette lines
- Lax skin found at the jawline or jowls
- Deep wrinkles and folds in a mid to the lower region of a face.
- Vertical neck bands
- The accumulated fat found in the neck or chins area
Full face lift
When it comes to the facelift, the surgeon may use different aggressiveness and all these are based on the level of the correction needed. To be able to achieve this, a detailed consultation has to be done with the surgeon and it will help you to communicate the results you wish to get and the technique that you feel that it will be the best to get to your expectations.
After the surgery
Healing takes place slowly. Many patients may require 10-14 days to be able to heal and for the swelling and bruising to disappear. A compression garment has to be put on for at least 2 weeks on the neck and head to help in reducing the bruising or swelling. In certain instances, the patients may need to put on drainage tubes in order to prevent the accumulation of the fluids and it is going to be removed within few days of the surgery.
In some weeks that follows the Rhytidectomy surgery or facelift, it is possible to feel the numbness within the skin found on the ear or in the face. Sometime temporary discoloration takes place when the healing had started and this may take some months for them to disappear. To enhance the recovery period; you need to sleep with an elevated head.
Even if the permanent damage only takes place in the rarest cases, sometime the facial nerve can be bruised in the surgery and it results in the temporary loss of function and sensation. Feeling numbness around the face, neck and earlobe is something normal and it will continue for around 1-6 weeks and a tight sensation will last for over a mouth. The results that you were looking for may take place within 6 months that follows the facelift surgical procedure.
When other procedures like eyelid lift or a facial implant is done at the same time, the recovery period will change.
The first step towards the good result is to pass through a consultation. You should meet with your surgeon and prepare yourself both mentally and physically for the surgery. You are going to find out whatever you want to know about.
