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Facelift (Rhytidectomy)
THE PREOPERATIVE FEATURES
- Focusing on drooping, loose, sagging or older looking
face.
- Loose hanging skin especially in the jowls and neck
and along the jawline.
- Double chin, turkey neck, wrinkles and crepiness.
- Excess fatty accumulation in the cheeks, jowls, and
neck.
- Prominent, deep laugh lines.
- Sunken cheek pads.
THE PROCEDURE
- MAC anesthesia can be used and the procedure takes
about three hours.
- A thin incision that extends from within the hairline
above the ear, continuing in front and inside the ear,
around the earlobe, in the crease, and into the back of
the hairline.
- Excess skin is removed and the face is lifted and tightened.
- Surgery on the SMAS ligament and platysma muscle which
are also lifted for important extra internal support that
makes the result last longer.
- Excess fat removed.
- A dressing is in place only for one day.
THE RECOVERY
- You can go home after several hours.
- You can shower on the day after surgery.
- Minimal pain is mostly gone by the third day and easily
controlled by medications.
- Swelling which is mild to moderate and peaks at two
days then disappears rapidly over the next three weeks.
- Minimal bruising which peeks at two days then disappears
rapidly by seven to fourteen days.
- Able to apply make-up in four days and comfortably
appear in public at that time.
- Resume light activities within the first week, and
most by at least three weeks.
- Half of the stitches are removed at six days and the
rest at ten days.
- Able to return to work in seven to ten days.
THE RESULT
- Very natural, rested, younger appearance.
- Beautiful and graceful, not a "wind-tunnel" look.
- Natural and presentable appearance in ten days that
just gets better over the next six to nine months.
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