Posted in Facelift, Plastic Surgery
All you need to know about face lift techniques to make an educated choice in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area.
There are more face lift done in Beverly Hills and Manhattan than anywhere else in the world but surprisingly enough the face lift patient does not make choices based on hard facts, instead she/he is more incline to pick a plastic surgeon from the gossips columns of a magazine.
Sometimes I think that you need to be a plastic surgeon to understand the differences in some of the techniques used in face lift surgery, so let’s try to make it simpler.
Most of the traditional face lifts are based on a similar technique: the skin is freed from the muscles underneath and then a layer of thin fibrous tissue overlying the muscles called the SMAS, is pulled in a horizontal direction and stitched in a higher position. The skin is re-draped on top, pulled, the excess removed and stitched in place around the ears. There are minor variations in the theme which are mostly inconsequential despite what different plastic surgeons may like you to think.
In general, considering the similarities of the current techniques what may be the difference is in the execution by different surgeons, especially the attention to details in stitching etc.
That is true but, in my opinion, there is a technique that is very different and stands out from the rest: it is called the vertical face lift. The technique differs in a substantial matter, both philosophically and factually.
Philosophically the major vector of pull is not horizontal but vertical.
Factually, it is a much more sophisticated operation. The skin is freed in a much wider fashion for two important reasons: one is that the wider dissection allows to re-drape the skin better and more efficiently, so more excess skin will be removed. Second, it allows access to the facial muscles so they can be reposition in a vertical direction, re-creating the more youthful framework of a younger face and by doing so, it avoids the reproduction of the pulled, unnatural classic face lift look.
Many surgeons claim that they are performing the vertical face lift but in actuality it is not very easy to perform. It takes knowledge of the facial anatomy and special skills.
For a lot of plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills and in Los Angeles it is easier to perform a simpler, less time-consuming version of the vertical face lift.
Don’t settle for less, become a more sophisticated patient. Any face lift, no matter who does it, (INCLUDING THE LIFE STYLE LIFT) will improve somewhat the aging face.
Learn to judge the final result based not only on an improvement of some kind but on the correction of all the signs of the aging face.
Develop a sense of beauty and artistry, train your eyes on details and truly appreciate a natural result, then and only then you will be able to decide what is the right face lift technique for you and you will be able to pick the best plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills to execute it.
