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If you're considering a Face-lift this information may be of interest to you and will give you a basic understanding of the procedure, when it can help, how it's performed and what results you can expect. It can't answer all of your questions, since a lot depends on the individual patient. Please do not hesitate to ask me about anything you don't understand or that confuses you. My main intention is to assist you in making an informed decision and question will be trated in the strictest confidence.

Prior to surgery do not have your hair cut short, longer hair may help to hide the incisions until completely healed.

Introduction: There are a dozen different techniques and types of face lift procedures. Surfing the Internet may only serve to confuse you even more. How can you decide which one is right for you?

We can tell you very quickly and easily what procedure is for you, simply by you sending us some good quality photographs, and by telling us what bothers YOU about your face.

If you're considering face-lift surgery, this information will give you a basic understanding of the procedure, when it can help, how it's performed and what results you can expect.
It can't answer all of your questions, since a lot depends on the individual patient and the technique used.

This is considered to be a major operative procedure and is not as simple as going to the hairdressers or having a facial. A face-lift can make you look younger, fresher and rejuvenated and may enhance your self confidence by improving the most visible signs of aging by removing jowls and tightening underlying facial tissues, removing excess fat under the chin, tightening neck skin and completely re-draping the skin of your face and neck, giving you a more youthful appearance.

A Face-lift will:

• Remove facial jowls.
• Tighten facial skin.
• Improve deep facial lines.
• Remove excess fat under the chin.
• Tighten and lift the skin of the neck.
• Give your face a younger more rested and fresher look.
• Last 10-15 years depending on factors such as heredity, smoking, alcohol, diet and exposure to the sun.

• Improve the condition of hooded upper eyes, due to excess skin.
• Improve or reduce eye bags.
• Lift the forehead remove/improve forehead lines.
• Lift the eyebrows.
• Improve the texture of the skin.
• Improve fine lines around the mouth, usually present in people who smoke.
• Give you a totally different look.
• Make you look like you did in your 20's.
• Stop the ageing process.
• Make you happy, it you were not before.
• Make your life any better- "you will still be the same person, but you will feel much better!"

Procedure: Improves sagging facial skin, jowls and loose neck skin by removing excess fat, tightening underlying SMAS tissue and re-draping skin.

Length of surgery: Approximately three to four hours.

Anesthesia: General anesthesia is typically used however, the patient may elect to have sedation and local anesthesia.

Incisions: Incisions begin just above the ear, down the front of the ear and go into the ear at the back of the small cartilage. Continues down under the ear lobe, up and horizontally in to the hairline.

Sutures: Fine stitches close the skin. Staples close the scalp incisions. Both removed after 7-10 days.

Inpatient/Outpatient: Depends what anesthetic is used and the condition of the patient after surgery. A short hospital may be required.

Possible Side Effects: Temporary bruising, swelling, numbness and tenderness of the skin, as well as a tight feeling and dry skin. For men, permanent need to shave behind ears, where beard-growing skin is repositioned as it is pulled back.

Risks: Injury to the nerves that control facial muscles or feeling-rare(which is usually temporary but in rare cases may be permanent), infection, bleeding, poor healing especially in smokers, excessive scarring, and a change in the hairline.

Recovery: Usually quick. The patient may return to work after seven to ten days. More strenuous activity may be resumed after two weeks or more. Bruising should begin to disappear after seven to ten days. Sun exposure must be limited for several months after surgery. The use of a sun block that provides both UVA and UVB (Ultraviolet) protection is recommended.

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