Facelift New Jersey

There are a variety of skin treatments that can improve skin texture, a double chin and reduce fine lines, but no cream or laser treatment can eliminate sagging and deep wrinkles like a facelift can. Since a facelift actually removes excess skin, it provides much more dramatic result than any topical treatment.

We specialize in careful techniques to minimize recovery times. Most patients will feel comfortable with most daily life activities after a week or so. For more intimate settings such as dinner with friends, it will likely be a few weeks for the swelling and bruising to be gone enough to feel really comfortable.

A facelift is a permanent procedure; the repositioned tissues will stay in their new position. Almost all of our long term follow up patients feel that they look better 8 – 10 years after the surgery than they did before. That said, you will continue to age normally after your facelift and secondary facelifts are easily done starting about 10 years after the first.

You can preserve your new youthful look as long as possible with normal anti-aging measures like skin treatments, sunscreen, and proper nutrition and hydration. To learn more watch this short facelift video featuring Dr. Mark Glasgold.

It’s more a question of skin condition than chronological age. If you are suffering from facial sagging, marionette lines, jowls, or other problems of facial aging, you can benefit from a facelift regardless of your actual age.

Likewise, a facelift can be performed on anyone who is in good health regardless of age. We have examples of all types of patients from very early to a bit late in our photo gallery. To learn more watch this facial plastic surgery video with Dr. Mark Glasgold.

Just because your opting for surgery, doesn’t mean the healing process is painful! To learn more watch this short video featuring Dr. Mark Glasgold.

We strongly recommend that you stop smoking prior to a facelift. The better you take care of your overall health and the fewer medical problems you have including smoking and being overweight, the better you will heal from any major surgery.

Male facelifts are done essentially the same as in woman. Men are often concerned primarily with the neck and in these patients we do a procedure where all of the incisions are in the neck. We call it a direct neck and satisfaction in male patients with this more limited procedure is extremely high.

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 an aged patient.

A natural appearing result from a facelift is standard in our practice. This is based on the type of facelift we do, the deep plane facelift, which produces much more natural appearing results than minilifts. It is also much better to do a facelift before there is significant hanging skin which makes a natural appearance much harder to achieve. You can see one woman’s journey through her facelift step by step on our website.

It is more important to apply sunscreen every few hours than worry about the SPF and just be smart about not risking a sunburn. We believe that a facelift should not interrupt activity too much and we start patients exercising 5 days after surgery. You can follow one of our patients through her procedure on our website.

The answer to this question is not about the surgery but about understanding the terminology. A facelift (full facelift) is an operation that will lift from the lower cheek down to the neck. In our practice a facelift always includes a full neck lift but does not lift the eyes or eyebrows.

There are really only two types of adequate facelifts; the deep plane facelift and the SMAS facelift, both of which provide excellent improvement of the neck, jawline and lower face. In our practice we only perform deep plane facelifts and we have extensive videos explaining why on our website.

A minilift (Mini Facelift) is really a completely different operation which limits the surgery to pulling on the skin and often produces short lived results. Unfortunately, it is common to give a sexy name like lifestyle lift to a minilift to give the impression that there is something unique or special that other surgeons don’t have.

Thread lifts, like minilifts, are attractive to patients because they seem to be a less invasive procedure but have the same problem, once the swelling is gone in a few months there is often very little improvement. You can often get realistic expectation for a procedure by going to a website like Realself.com, where patients will tell their own experiences with procedures and doctors.