Facelift

It is not uncommon male facelifts to have a bit more bleeding during a facelift and this is due to all of the facial hair bringing more blood to the skin, but this does not affect the healing and men are usually functioning more quickly than woman after surgery.

Hanging skin in the neck can only be addressed surgically. In select patients we will do an excision of just the “turkey gobbler” which is a significantly less invasive procedure than a facelift.

In the mid 30’s to early 40’s it is very common for woman to notice an early aging appearance but are unable to identify the specifics. It is almost always a result of volume loss particularly in the eye and cheek region. A fat transfer is an ideal procedure for restoring the volume and providing natural subtle improvement in this aged patient.

It is very common in our practice to combine a facelift with a fat transfer. Typically the fat transfer is important for adding volume around the eyes and cheek and mouth area while a facelift lifts the jawline, neck and lower face. The entire procedure of harvesting and injecting the fat and the facelift are performed at the same time in about 3 to 4 hours and save the patient from having multiple surgeries to achieve total facial rejuvenation.

We use conscious sedation twilight sleep for our facelift surgeries. It is safer than general anesthesia and patients recover much more quickly without nausea while sleeping comfortably through the surgery.

Stem cell facelift/fat transfers do not improve the neck.

A stem cell facelift is really a fat transfer.  It is very common for patients who have had a facelift to benefit more from a fat transfer as a touchup than another facelift. 

We use a technique called conscious sedation or twilight sleep with local injections. The patients feel like they are completely asleep but they do not need a breathing tube and rarely have postoperative nausea.

We allow patients to start wearing makeup and resume most of their normal activities including exercise when the stitches come out, usually 5 days after surgery.

Fat for a stem cell facelift is harvested from the most diet resistant fat areas for the individual. This is most commonly; hips, outer thighs and abdomen. These areas are pretty sore for a good week after surgery.