facelift surgery or the rhytidectomy is one of the parts of cosmetic surgery, everyone wants to look beautiful and feel comfortable. So the in the modern age facelift surgery had given opportunity to them. Legged geese, jowls ... Who has not looked a day younger than 10 years thanks to a little facelift. What can be correct, what are the risks, complications ... For full details before making a decision?

If it is the witness of our emotions and our personality, also face the stigma of the time. Under the weight of years, the skin sags, lines bend giving sometimes sad.

Who is a good candidate for facelift surgery?

Several facelift factors will intervene: the state of the skin, the type face, the objectives, re-tension of the skin under certain guidelines to enable a lens to simulate the results. They show they do not change on the medial side of the face especially on the upper lip and the medial side of the front.

How is a facelift surgery performed?

The intervention takes place either under local anesthesia with deep sedation providing deep relaxation, either under general anesthesia in the presence of an anesthetist.

The incision starts in the temple under the leg hair and then walks in front of the ear, then in the ear, then to the ear lobe and behind the ear and ends in the neck. Plans will be retendus are not only skin but also plans deep muscle and fat.

The procedure takes 2 to 3 hours. The incisions are placed so they are the least possible and that the implantation of the hair is not altered in particular leg.

What is a facelift surgery?

Lifting is the term means all lifting operations to correct the sagging of the skin. The face in the age will become more elongated with a sagging cheekbones and creating a hollow in the middle of the cheek. The loss of the oval face, the appearance of jowls, furrows deepening of expression will appear. There is no gentle facelift, hard facelift; the whole is to adapt the region to tension in the objectives of which was previously determined with the patient.

This will involve a more or less the complete facelift of the temporal region drawing on the corner of the eye and cheekbone, lifting cervico-treating facial jowls and neck. It is a rejuvenation for which there is no age since it does not age all in the same way, but it is rare to consider it before age 40. This is to differentiate between facelift of morphological processing (mask-lift) that change the axis of the eyes and the shape of the cheekbones. The front facelift surgery enhances the skin and muscles of the forehead.

The lifting may be involved in acts of liposuction in the neck region where excess fat or, conversely, to filling in greasy grooves cheeks and lower eyelids to restore the volume so that 'with age the skin on his skin and his skin and his muscles had thinned.

What is the recovery time of facelift surgery?

After the facelift surgery hospitalization lasts 24 to 48 hours. But it is difficult to recover a social and professional before 3 weeks.

During the 8 to 10 days after surgery, the face is swollen, or distorted by bruises varying patients. The son is removed between the 7th and 15th days. The skin is cardboard, insensitive during the first month.

What are the risks, complications, side effects of facelift surgery?

Like any surgery the facelift may be the subject of all the usual problems that accompany the surgery. The most common after a facelift is the occurrence of hematoma (2 to 8%) and in 0.5% of cases must be evacuated by a surgeon. The infection is rare and would be treated with antibiotics. The difficulties of healing can occur especially among heavy smoker’s subjects. That is why the facelift surgeon recommends that you stop smoking 4 to 6 weeks before the intervention.

The current techniques used to avoid accidents involving nervous facial paralysis. Enlargements scar may be at the level of hair and may be subject to alterations.

Can there be disappointment after the facelift surgery?

This is the result of misinformation about the limitations of facelift surgery, the skin is not tensioned changed its alterations will persist and the facelift does in no way a smooth skin that is more amenable to laser resurfacing, which will be done at the same time or in a second time. Facial asymmetries and abnormal bony contour cannot be corrected by a mask lift. Finally you must know that in 50% of cases, a kind of depression fatigue occurs, the patient is bothered by the feeling of tension and pain discreet in front of and behind the ears, seeing no desired results immediately.

The telangiectasia (visible veins) pre-existing can be aggravated by lifting, but will be easily treatable by specific lasers.

How long does a facelift surgery?

If it helps to rejuvenate approximately 10 years, it will not change the facial expression that remains natural. Its duration varies between 8 and 10 years. There is never a sudden relapse and aging, however, resumed a normal, but with 10 years of rejuvenation. It is quite possible to repeat 2 or 3 times during a life a facelift.

Facelift surgery average cost around $6,000 in the USA.