Facelift

The skin of the face loses its elasticity through the years and tires the musculature of the subcutaneous tissue. The folds are natural concomitants of the ageing process. Many people oppose already have anybody correct deep folds at the neck or surplus skin in the age between 35 and 40 years to the doctors around hanging cheek, plication. Often find a surgeon for also men with deep wrinkles on the forehead, sunk cheeks and folds around the eyes and mouth area.

By the facelift the appearance can be rejuvenated around about 10 to 15 years. However, the effect isn't durable. As a rule, a facelift can approximately 10 years be repeated.

Which operations on the patients make sense is very different. A thorough advice conversation is therefore very important with a surgeon in which the wishes of the patients are discussed. However, the physician which informs the patient about using possibly and risks also must represent the limits of a medical treatment. The species of the general anesthesia and the exact incision leadership should already be cleared in the conversation.

Every patient receives an individual medical treatment plan. Depending on extent and size of the operation the operation is carried out in a local anesthesia, in the "dusk sleep" or in general anesthesia and can last for three to five hours. To obtain an optimal result the patient can a collagen neoformation therapy be recommended in front of the medical treatment. As a rule, forehead, cheeks/face and neck are tightened in an operation. However, it possible, facelift are also only on single the face games mentioned above carry out. As a rule, a mini-elevator is carried out at younger patients. The incisions are shorter at the mini-elevator and the streamlining of the deeper structures can be renounced. A mini-elevator gets frequent cheeks and chin areas in this, carried out at the temples and eye zones or at the neck. A pure streamlining of the upper skin layers doesn't keep structures as long as a reduction of the deeper tissues, though.

Offer one's services the open or the endoscopic procedure for the operation. The endoscopic method needs only very small slice. Thus very good results can be obtained primarily at the forehead, in the cheek area and at the eye games.

The planned incision leadership is marked with a felt-tip at the open method first. It follows the natural hairline or goes within the hairy scalp, around the ear and ends in the hairy nape skin. It is also possible to carry out the operation without having shaved the hairs. The upper skin layer is taken off by the deeper layers. The objective of a facelifts is the neglect of the sunk soft part structure of the face to its original job. Becoming not only the upper skin layers with the SMAS method (superficial musculo aponeurotic system) but including the deeper layers also the musculature tissue tightened. The streamlining of this layer holds longer than a pure skin streamlining, too and the individual facial expression of the patient remains unchanged and doesn't resemble that one of a mask. No correction is carried out the smaller folds consciously to obtain a natural appearance, however. Be the layers of the skin which elevatedly, i.e. at their original place fixes muscles and the fatty tissue being subject then. Surplus skin and fat are removed. To design the operation as durable as possible, the surgeon tightens the neck and face muscles. After the correction of the deeper skin structures the upper skin layer is stretched.

The patient sensibly limits the smoking strongly in front of the operation and leaves alcohol and hypnotics out. 14 days from the operation should also on analgesics, be renounced such as aspirin since these delay the blood coagulation.

A Facelift isn't a small operation and one therefore better includes a one-week break in his plans after the operation. In the face one/woman should not carry any make-up for approximately one week and not put cream on the face skin through charge. The tumescences in the face form back for common after a couple of days. Is taboo to a facelift for two to three months take sunbath. One is socially acceptable again about two weeks after the operation. The patients can frequently be already dismissed from clinic without bandage and with hairs washed freshly. The sutures are drawn after the operation for about 10-14 days. As in the case of most surgical operations a definite result can be stated only after some months surplus skin and fat are removed.


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