Cosmetic Facelift Surgery
If you are wanting a cosmetic face lift surgery, there are a few options open to you depending on the outcome that you desire. You should consult with your cosmetic surgeon to see which would best meet your needs and desires.
Midface Lifts
As you age your cheeks and midface begin to fall or sag. This can make you look sat or tired all the time and deepen the nasolabial fold. Do people often ask you if you are tired and you don't feel tired? It could be that your need a refreshed midface lift.
Incisions are made just inside the eyelids to elevate the sagging cheeks, providing you with a younger appearance as well as higher cheek bones. Midface Lifting is often accompanied by blepharoplasty surgery.
Face Lift
When the lower part of your face starts to sag, it can cause the youthful triangle formed by the chin and jaw to revert to a square configuration creating jowls. A face lift can elevate the jowls and reverse the early changes of aging of the lower portion of the face and neck. A face lift can rejuvenate the lower part of your face.
The main reason that people have a face lift procedure is so that they can look younger and have a happier expression on the face. Besides the sagging of the cheeks, there are dark circles under the eyes and a deepening of the fold between the cheek and lips. Elevation of the cheeks helps to reduce the circles and the fold as well achieving a more cheerful expression the face.
Recovery
Mid face lift surgery is typically performed at the same time as eyelid surgery. Eyelid surgery results in bruising and swelling and recovery, healing, the symptoms disappear in about 3 weeks.
For a face it takes 2-3 weeks for bruising and swelling to resolve. Stitches are removed about two weeks after the procedure.
Side Effects
Temporary bruising, swelling, numbness and tenderness of skin; tight feeling, dry skin. For men, permanent need to shave behind ears, where beard-growing skin is repositioned.
Risks
Injury to the nerves that control facial muscles or feeling (usually temporary but may be permanent). Infection, bleeding. Poor healing; excessive scarring. Asymmetry or change in hairline.
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