Do you want to say goodbye to droopy skin, creases, deep wrinkles, and jowls? Want to get a youthful appearance and look relaxed and well-rested? If your answers are a big yes, it is time for you to know more about Facelift, which stops the ageing process to take over your youthful appearance.
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3. Types of facelift procedures
4. What do the results look like?
5. Cost of facelift surgery in India
1. What is a Facelift?
A facelift, also known as rhytidectomy, can be defined as a cosmetic surgery procedure that is performed to provide people with a more youthful facial appearance. It can help tighten loose, hanging skin around the jawline and eliminate deep creases around the mouth and nose. A facelift is equally effective to treat loss of chin and neck contours and promote skin elasticity. This facial rejuvenation procedure resolves multiple signs of ageing on the jawline, neck, and lower face.
2. Who needs a Facelift?
The ideal candidates for facelift surgery are:
- People in the age group of 40 to 70 years
- Those who have deep creases under the eyes or those who want to reduce creases and folds (both marionette lines and nasolabial folds)
- Those who want to improve mid-facial sagging
- The people with predominant eye bags
- The ones with folds in the eye area (laugh lines and crow’s feet)
- People who want to reduce sagging in the neck or want to increase definition to the jawline
- People who don’t smoke or abuse substances
- Healthy individuals who are not suffering from health conditions that may interfere with recovery or wound healing after the surgery
- People who have realistic expectations from the facelift surgery
3. Types of Facelift Procedures
There are different types of facelift procedures and your surgeon might recommend any one of them according to your skin concern and skin type.
- Non-surgical Facelift/Thread Lift: This procedure is ideal for reducing mild sagginess of jowl and cheek. It involves the use of Polydioxanone sutures and is recommended only in the patients in the age group of 30-40 years having mild sagging.
- Classical Facelift: Also known as a full facelift, classical facelift offers dramatic results and is ideal for people with severe wrinkles. During this procedure, the surgeon cuts out both excess and hanging skin along with the SMAS layer to achieve the final result.
- SMAS Plication: It is a simple and easy facial rejuvenation procedure that involves a relatively short downtime. During this procedure, the surgeon manipulates the subcutaneous tissues for solving the face senile changes including deep soft tissue sagging and skin wrinkles.
- MACS Lift: In Minimal access cranial suspension (MACS) lift, the surgeon divides the procedure into two types: extended and simple. Extended MACS lift corrects nasolabial groove, midface, and senile changes in the lower eyelid region while the simple MACS technique variation is all about correcting the face and the neck’s ageing appearance. It is a shorter procedure than SMAS Plication and is characterised by low morbidity and high patient satisfaction.
- Mini-Face lift: This shorter facelift version is ideal for people in the age group of 30-40 years. The procedure is characterised by less downtime and shorter recovery. During the procedure, the surgeon makes a small incision and lifts the cheek area primarily.
4. What do the results look like?
Facelift procedures can help recover your youthful, vibrant appearance once again. It helps in treating the gradual decline of skin quality as a result of the loss of facial fat and the thinning of dermal tissue. Facelift surgery helps you remove excess skin, tighten underlying tissue and muscle, and then redrape the remaining skin for a tighter, vibrant, and smoother appearance to the neck and face.
Patients can return to their home on the same day of Facelift surgery and the recovery time is approximately 2-4 weeks.
It is important for patients to remember the following tips and precautions:
- The head of the patient must always be elevated for at least 1 week after the surgery.
- The patient should have complete bed rest with no heavy movements for the first 24 hours post-surgery.
- The dressings applied by the surgeon should not be removed until 24 hours after the surgery.
- Patients should not sleep on the side of the face for about two weeks instead sleep in the supine position with the head’s backside on the pillow.
- Ice packs should be placed over the surgical site.
- Pain-relieving medications, anti-inflammatory drugs, and antibiotics as suggested by the surgeon should be taken as advised.
5. Cost of Facelift Surgery in India
Facelift surgery cost depends on many factors such as the character of the skin, the severity of the ageing process, skeletal appearance, the patient’s expectations, expertise of the surgeon, reputation and success rate of the clinic, etc.
Takeaway
Ideal for both men and women, facelift surgery is best performed by a qualified and experienced surgeon who has rich expertise to tailor the surgery to accommodate the aesthetic goals so that you can achieve consistent results across the entire face.
Dr Handa’s Clinic provides a wide range of facial rejuvenation procedures such as facelift surgery and non-surgical facelift in Delhi. The plastic surgery centre has 100 beds where simple and complex both types of surgeries are performed every day.
There are different types of facelift procedures, all of which are designed to attain specific aesthetic goals. If you have any questions, doubts, or concerns about the facelift surgery, you can reach out to Dr Handa’s Clinic to schedule a consultation.
