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Face Lift and Neck Lift: Keeping Time on Your Side!

What Happens During Face Lift and Neck Lift Surgery?

Depending on the extent of your unique needs and wishes, the face lift / neck lift procedure involves tightening and smoothing fatty tissue, muscle and skin around the jaw line, neck, and cheeks — a process that can dramatically reduce and eliminate wrinkles and folds to reveal a fresher, younger-looking you.

In most cases, your plastic and cosmetic surgeon can hide your face lift and neck lift incisions in the hairline or behind the ears.

A typical face lift / neck lift takes approximately 4 to 6 hours. It is performed under general anesthesia. Most patients stay overnight in the hospital.

If you need to turn back the hands of time on your eyes, your surgeon might recommend a mid-face lift  to correct hallowing beneath your lower eyelids and create a smoother transition between the lower eyelids and upper cheeks. The procedure involves an incision beneath the lower lid lash that extends to the outer edge of the eye.

After a mid-face lift, you are likely to have bruising and swelling for 1 to 2 weeks; but within several weeks, swelling will subside and you will see the beautiful, youthful results of the surgery.

When combined, the mid-face lift and face lift / neck lift can greatly enhance the overall look and feel of your face. You also can ask your plastic surgeon about other cosmetic facial options such as dermal fillers that can be used to further polish results of your face and neck lift. Whatever your needs and desires, your plastic surgeon can guide you to the options that will yield the most outstanding and long-lasting results.

Who can have face lift and neck lift surgery?

If you are a man or woman in good health with skin that is still somewhat resilient, you are likely to be a good candidate for face and neck lift surgery. Although most people who get face / neck lift are age 40 or older, some younger people elect the surgery to correct premature aging from too much sun, smoking, and unfavorable genetics.

Facelift and neck lift results are long lasting. But some people have an additional procedure to retighten the face after 5 to 10 years. In other cases, face and neck lift patients use nonsurgical cosmetic options, including Botox Cosmetic and facial fillers, to maintain their youthful look.

You don’t have to be a celebrity to look great at any age!

Nowadays, professional men and women as well as stay-at-home moms choose face lift / neck lift surgery to look and feel their best.

Facial Fillers: Making Forty the New Thirty

Keeping It Natural

Smooth gels made from plants, the facial fillers Juvederm^® and Restylane^® / Perlane^® are similar to a substance known as hyaluronic acid that naturally occurs in the body. These fillers can immediately soften lines and wrinkles that show the passing years on your face.

A synthetic and biodegradable substance made from the acids of fruits, Sculptra™ helps promote the production of collagen — a natural bodily substance that helps keep your skin young and fresh looking. Sculptra also gradually increases the thickness of the skin, helping fill lines and wrinkles and gently boosting the overall volume of the face for a healthy, youthful look.

Another popular injectable filler, Radiesse^® is a calcium-based substance that stimulates collagen production and reduces the appearance of facial folds, lines, creases, and wrinkles. Radiesse is often used to plump cheeks and fill nasolabial folds. It also can be used to help contour the face for a more refined, polished appearance.

Depending on your goals, your plastic surgeon might recommend more than 1 type of filler to ensure the very best possible results for your face.

Safe and FDA-approved, facial fillers provide beautiful, healthy, natural-looking results!

Injectable fillers can reduce the appearance of:

Acne scars and pits
Cheek and other facial depressions
Earlobes that sag and have deep lines
Folds such as smile lines, laugh lines, and grooves running from the corners of the nose to the corners of the mouth (nasolabial folds)
Hollows under the eyes (tear troughs)
Lines from the corners of the mouth to the chin (Marionette lines)
Loose skin at the lower jawline (or jowls)
Thinning lips and a receding lip line
Thinning lips and a receding lip line
Vertical lip lines
Wrinkles

For a fully refreshed, smooth, and young look and feel to your skin, you may combine dermal fillers with Botox^® Cosmetic injections.

Who can benefit from facial injections?

Many people who have dermal fillers are 35 years of age or older. But you can have dermal injections at any age. Even some teens have facial fillers to correct pitting, scarring, and other facial depressions from acne, injuries, and other conditions. Dermal fillers work well in women and men. They are suitable for all skin types.

Facial filler injections are quick!

Given with a very fine needle that causes little or no discomfort, dermal injections take as few as 15 to 30 minutes to complete. Side effects of dermal fillers are mild and temporary, usually lasting no more than a week. Complications with injectable fillers are very rare.

Rapid Recovery and Radiant Results With Dermal Fillers

Results from dermal fillers are immediate! In some cases, results of facial fillers improve over time with continued treatments. In most cases, the effects of dermal fillers last at least 6 months. But some people need fewer treatments over time. Sculptra and Radiesse tend to produce longer-lasting results compared with many other dermal fillers.

Given by the hands of a skilled plastic / cosmetic surgeon who is knowledgeable about facial anatomy, including the structure of the bones, muscles, and underlying tissues, facial fillers are an ideal way to restore and maintain your youthful appearance!

Breast Augmentation: Helping Women Stay Sexy and Confident

Breast Augmentation Helps Turn Back the Hands of Time

With the effects of gravity as you age, if you have gained and lost weight, or if you’ve been pregnant and breastfed, your breasts have probably lost the volume that makes them appear youthful. In addition, the skin on your breasts has likely slackened and sagged. You might have even been left with unattractive stretch marks. Unfortunately, changes such as these are permanent and irreversible without corrective surgery.

Many women suggest their smaller, saggy breasts make them feel older, less attractive, and less confident about their appearance. The good news is that breast augmentation can restore your breasts to a more youthful size and shape, boost your self-esteem, and help give you a more youthful look and outlook!

If you are one of millions of women who would like to enhance the size, contour, and feel of your breasts for a more youthful physique overall, then breast augmentation might be right for you!

In the hands of a skilled plastic and cosmetic surgeon, breast augmentation can give you fuller, perkier, rounder, firmer, beautiful, natural-looking breasts!

Depending on your surgeon’s recommendations, saline or silicone implants can be used to:

Enlarge your breast size
Balance your breast size with your overall shape
Tighten your skin and help firm your breasts
Correct uneven, deformed, and disfigured breasts
Lift sagging breasts
Add breast volume
Reconstruct breasts after mastectomy, lumpectomy, and biopsy
Revise previously unsatisfactory breast augmentation and/or breast lift

When necessary, your plastic and cosmetic surgeon can combine breast augmentation with breast lift to better position your breasts on the chest.

Both saline and silicone implants are proven safe and can enhance the look and feel of your breasts.

Before Breast Augmentation

A first step toward getting beautiful breasts through augmentation surgery is having a discussion with a board-certified plastic and cosmetic surgeon. He or she will ask about your expectations and desires, address your concerns, tell you about limits and risks, and explain what you can expect. In many cases, your surgeon can show you digital imaging of your body before and after breast augmentation.

After examining you, the surgeon will tell you about different types and shapes of breast implants and recommend the breast implant that will give you the very best possible results.

Breast Augmentation Procedure and Recovery

During your breast augmentation surgery, your doctor will create a space under the breast in which to place the implant. Depending on whether you choose saline or silicone implants, the space is made above or under the chest muscle.

Incisions are place depending on your anatomy, goals, and implant type. But they are commonly placed under the arms or in the natural crease of the breast where they can be concealed. Your surgeon will make the incisions as small as possible. In time, scars from the incisions will fade considerably.

Most women who have breast augmentation return home within a few hours after their surgery. Your doctor will help you manage any soreness or discomfort with prescription and over-the-counter medications. Some bruising and swelling is natural after breast augmentation surgery, but it will eventually resolve. Although you will see immediate results from breast augmentation, you will see the final, fantastic results of your breast augmentation surgery within weeks.

After your surgery to augment your breasts, it’s best to take some time off to rest and heal. You shouldn’t lift anything heavy or exercise for 4 to 6 weeks. But once you have healed completely, you can resume all your normal activities, including vigorous exercise.

After breast augmentation, most women are thrilled with their new breasts as well as how they help balance their overall shape!

If you’re thinking about how wonderful it would be to have fuller, firmer, beautiful, young-looking breasts, check out board-certified plastic surgeons who have expertise in breast augmentation. See before and after pictures and schedule a consultation today!