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Facial Cosmetic Surgery: Lifting Your Facial Tissue

By: Fabian Toulouse


This article was authored by a non-health professional.


Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008



If you are like a lot of people, you once sniffed at the thought of ever having a facelift. Then Father Time caught up with you and the face in the mirror started showing more mileage than you like to admit to. Maybe a facelift would be a good idea, you think, just to shore up the old morale. If you are one of thousands thinking of having one, you should not treat it lightly. Though a fairly common way to take years off your countenance, in the wrong surgeon's hands a facelift can also backfire and leave you devastated. This is not to scare you off. Looking great and having high self esteem are important results worth seeking. You should, however, be very choosy about whose hands into which you put your only face.

A facelift, like any other cosmetic surgery, is real medicine, not something on par with a haircut. Multiple layers of tissue and often muscle are affected, and actual incisions are involved, unlike the scene in the Simpsons where the vain local newscaster simply gathers his loose skin and ties it up behind his head. A facelift is serious business. It is an invasive procedure requiring anesthesia and three to eight weeks of recovery can follow.

Indisputably, though, a facelift can deliver dramatic results. For older patients, the results of the most hard core facelift, the deep plane facelift, can be especially noticeable. The deep plane facelift delivers the longest lasting results -- "usually it is ten to fifteen years before a secondary lift is desired. If you are between forty and fifty, a mid face lift is more likely in order to address the beginnings of laxity and sagging around the nose and mouth. A mid face lift requires incisions in the hairline and inside the mouth to tighten and reposition tissue.

With that image in mind, obviously, the doctor you choose to perform a facelift is important. After all, you are having someone actually lift and maneuver your facial tissue. Equally important is the necessity of being fully educated on the facelift procedure you choose. There are several, and they are not all created equally. Go ahead and "get some work done", but please proceed responsibly!

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Fabian Toulouse is a Parisian living in Southern California. http://www.mycosmeticsurgeryadvisor.org/facelift.html

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