As you grow older, the signs of aging on your face can become harder to conceal. You may find sagging skin, jowling, and deep wrinkles especially challenging because they are harder to address through makeup and minimally invasive procedures like dermal fillers.
Fortunately, facelifts offer an effective and longer-lasting way to address facial concerns. Advances in facelift techniques offer you a more natural-looking means of addressing harder-to-conceal signs of aging. If you are someone frustrated with the impact aging has had on your face, you may want to explore your facial plastic surgery options at our Lee’s Summit location.
Facelifts have come a long way from the stereotypical windswept look they produced a few decades ago. Plastic surgeons have developed a range of facelift techniques to achieve more natural-looking results. Rather than just pulling the skin taught and trimming away excess skin, plastic surgeons now use techniques to manipulate facial muscles under the surface of the skin and strategically remove and transfer fat to create definition and contour. Our experienced plastic surgeons are why facelifts are becoming so popular among women and men in Lee’s Summit, starting in their late 40s.
People in Lee’s Summit pursuing a facelift come to our offices to treat a variety of skin concerns. Some of the concerns a facelift can address include:
As you age, your skin loses elasticity, causing your cheeks to sag and leaving you with a perpetual droopy, tired look. Facelifts address sagging cheeks by pulling the skin taut and removing excess skin. Your plastic surgeon can also adjust muscles in the cheeks to raise the appearance of your cheekbones.
Jowls are the excess skin that sags around the jaw and leaves you with a poorly defined jawline that people often associate with aging. Facelift techniques that tighten skin and remove collected fat can significantly improve the appearance of jowls.
Nasolabial folds are the deep creases or wrinkles that form between the nose and the corners of the mouth as you age. These folds can obscure your lips in the area around your mouth and can be easily addressed through facelift procedures.
Double chins are created through a combination of sagging or loose skin under the chin and the accumulation of fat, which tends to collect under the chin. Like jowling, double chins obscure the definition of your jawline and neck. Facelift techniques can address the loose skin and deposited fat that cause double chins.
As you age, the skin on your neck also begins to sag, often resulting in horizontal lines around the neck, like a turtle’s neck. You may find that this loose skin keeps you from wanting to expose your neck, forcing you to wear scarves even when you do not want to. Certain facelift procedures can address this loose neck skin.
Facelifts are a form of invasive reconstructive surgery and are, therefore, performed under general anesthesia in an outpatient surgical center as well as our in-house OR.
During the procedure itself, your plastic surgeon will make an incision in the hairline around the ears or under the chin, depending on the type of procedure. From the incision site, your surgeon will remove excess fat and skin and also tighten the facial muscles and supporting structures under the surface of the skin. Your surgeon will then close the incisions with sutures.
A typical surgery lasts two to three hours, and you will be allowed to return home on the same day as the procedure.
The recovery time from a facelift will depend on the extent of your procedure in Lee’s Summit. In most cases, it takes 2 to 3 weeks for the swelling and bruising from the procedure to resolve. It may take 2 to 3 months before your face feels completely healed and back to normal.
Your face and neck show signs of aging the most. From sagging cheeks to jowling, these changes can become harder to conceal and, for that matter, harder to accept. Fortunately, plastic surgery options can address these concerns and get you looking younger and more attractive. Facelift techniques have advanced considerably to give you a naturalyounger look that will be longer-lasting than most other noninvasive or minimally invasive treatments.
If you are growing frustrated with harder-to-conceal signs of aging on your face, you may want to consider a facelift in Lee’s Summit. Our team at Associated Plastic Surgeons & Med Spa is looking forward to helping you achieve a younger look. Call today.
(913) 451-3722