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Face Lift Surgery

Face lift procedures are very popular not just with celebrities but with politicians, business people and men and women, who want to rejuvenate their appearance and look fresher and younger.

As time goes by, our faces start to lose elasticity. This can result in excess folds of skin on the face, resulting in saggy skin which can give a ‘tired' looking appearance.

Many people choose to have a face lift procedure as the results are rejuvenating, giving a long-lasting firm, fresh and youthful looking appearance.
How long the effect lasts depends on the individual but most patients report that following a face lift, they look ten years younger.

A Facelift can be combined with a Neck Lift.

Facelifts can lift your whole face (a full facelift) or just your brow area, lower face, or neck. We can turn the clock back so you will always get the benefit of having had the surgery, you will just continue to age at your normal rate

Traditional facelift

In a traditional facelift, your surgeon will make a surgical cut in your hairline, down past the front of your ears and then up into the hairline again behind the ears. Very rarely, cuts may also be made under your chin if you want to lift a sagging jaw line.
Your skin is carefully separated from the underlying tissues. The surgeon will then remove or reposition the excess fat, tighten the muscles and surrounding tissues in your face. He or she will finally lift your skin, pull it back and trim off any excess.
Your skin is then stitched back to the line where the cut was initially made. Afterwards, your face is wrapped in bandages. Depending on the exact procedure, these may run under your chin, around your ears and/or over your head. They are usually taken off after a day before you leave the hospital.
Fine plastic drainage tubes may be left in the wounds, usually behind your ears. These allow blood and fluids to drain.

Minimal-access cranial suspension (MACS)

In this type of procedure, the surgical cuts are shorter than for a traditional facelift. The cuts are just made in your temple and in front of your ears. Excess fat is removed and the muscles are tightened using permanent stitches.

Keyhole surgery

In keyhole surgery, your surgeon makes several tiny cuts into your skin. Special operating instruments and a narrow, flexible, tube-like telescopic camera called an endoscope are passed through the cuts, and the surgeon does the operation by looking at pictures sent from the endoscope to a monitor.
This type of surgery leaves smaller scars and usually means a shorter recovery time. It's most commonly carried out for upper face or brow lifts. Your surgeon will let you know whether this type of surgery is suitable for you.

Watch our video about having a Facelift Procedure, see before and after photographs and hear a patients story.

Recovery from Face Lift & Neck Lift Surgery

Following the operation, you may experience some bruising and swelling. Stitches will be removed at between 7 to 14 days. By this time you should be able to resume your normal day-to-day activities with few exceptions.

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