Face Lift

In time, gravity, sun exposure, and the stresses of daily life take their toll on our faces: deep creases appear beside the mouth, the jawline slackens, and folds and fat deposits appear on the neck. Facelifts counteract these problems by removing fat and tightening skin and muscles, giving your face a fresher, youthful look -- after surgery, some patients appear as much as ten or 15 years younger.

The procedure can be combined with others (browlift, eyelid surgery, nose reshaping) for more dramatic results, or it can be restricted to the neck (necklift) if the patient’s problems center there. Incisions are made in inconspicuous places such as behind the hairline and in natural folds of the face and ears, and scars fade to near invisibility in time. Results of a facelift do not last forever; you may want to have another procedure in five or ten years. But in another sense, the effects are permanent; years later, your face will continue to look better than if you had never had the procedure.

Mini Face Lift

The ideal candidates for the mini-lift are patients with moderate signs of facial aging. This procedure is more conservative than the full facelift and has a shorter recovery. Patients with moderate facial aging changes are candidates for the mini-lift. The pictures below show typical results for patients with a mini-lift. Some of these patients also had additional cosmetic procedures such as brow lift, eyelid tuck and laser skin resurfacing.

Forehead (Brow) Lift

Browlifts can revitalize drooping or lined foreheads, helping you to look less angry, sad or tired. Using either traditional or minimally invasive (endoscopic) methods, browlifts involve the removal or alteration of the muscles above the eyes to smooth lines and raise the eyebrows for a more youthful appearance. The procedure is often combined with other operations such as blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and facelifts to improve the look of the eyes and other areas of the face.

Eyelid Surgery

By removing excess fat, skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids, blepharoplasty can rejuvenate puffy, sagging or tired-looking eyes. It is typically a cosmetic procedure but can also improve vision by lifting droopy eyelids out of the patient’s field of vision. The procedure is usually performed in an office with local anesthesia and lasts 45 minutes to a few hours depending on how much work is done.

Eyelid surgery can be combined with other procedures, such as a facelift and BOTOX® treatments to achieve these results.

Rhinoplasty

One of the most common plastic surgery procedures, rhinoplasty is performed to reshape, reduce or augment a person’s nose, remove a hump, narrow nostril width, change the angle between the nose and the mouth, or to correct injury, birth defects, or other problems that affect breathing. Rhinoplasty is usually an outpatient procedure performed under either local or general anesthesia and lasts one to two hours unless more extensive work needs to be done. Insurance may cover rhinoplasty if it is done for reconstructive or medical reasons, but likely not for cosmetic purposes.

Otoplasty (Ears)

Ear surgery is typically performed to set prominent ears back closer to the head, or to reduce the size of large ears. Surgery may be helpful for “lop ear," "cupped ear" and "shell ear,” large or stretched earlobes, and lobes with large creases and wrinkles. Surgeons are also able to construct new ears for patients who are missing them due to injury or other causes. The operation can be performed on children as young as four years of age when the ears are fully grown, in order to minimize teasing in school. The procedure lasts from two to three hours and may be performed in a hospital, office-based facility or an outpatient surgery center under general or local anesthesia.

Lip Enhancement

As people age, they tend to lose the youthful fullness their lips. Whether this is your case or you were just born with thin lips, there are options for you. A temporary solution would be a filler like Restylane, Juvederm, or Prevelle. These fillers are performed in the office. Your mouth area will be numbed with a local anesthetic and then the filler will be injected into your lips. These results can last anywhere from three months to one year, and results will vary on your choice of filler. A more permanent option would bePermaLip. This is a permanent lip enhancement implant. Two small incisions will be made in the corners of the mouth, and the implant will be placed. This procedure usually takes 15 minutes or less from the times of the incision. This is also performed in our office.

Cheek & Chin Implants

Chin surgery, also known as mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure to reshape the chin either by enhancement with an implant or reduction surgery on the bone. Many times a plastic surgeon may recommend chin surgery to a patient having nose surgery in order to achieve facial proportion, as the size of the chin may magnify or minimize the perceived size of the nose. Chin surgery helps provide a harmonious balance to your facial features so that you feel better about the way you look. Cheek implants are designed to accentuate the area below and out from the eye. A secondary benefit is a lifting effect of the cheek.

Neck Lift

This procedure is designed to benefit people with sagging neck skin, and those with neck folds. A neck lift may be a single operation, or as part of a face lift procedure, and when combined with a facelift the excess skin can be removed by lifting up all of the neck skin and re-draping over the tightened neck muscles. If only a neck lift is desired, then only the underlying muscle is tightened and the excess fat is removed. This usually effectively divides any bands from the chin to the neck, redefining the jawline. If excess skin needs removing, the operation can be expanded to include the removal through a scar behind the ear.

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