A facelift is the medical aesthetics procedure done to quite literally lift up the face, tighten our facial skin, and produce a more youthful appearance for our face.
During a facelift process, some of the procedures involved are the removing excess facial skin, tightening tissues, and reshaping the skin on your face and neck.
There are both surgical and non-surgical options (also known as Threadlift) for facelift. Surgical facelift requires 1-2 days of hospital admission, while a non-surgical one can be completed as an outpatient.
Treatment duration: 2-6 hours (surgical), about 1 hour (non-surgical)
You don't necessarily have to go under the knife for a facelift. With the latest treatments and technology, facelifts have become more and more common. If you have sagging or loose skin, a facelift can help you stimulate collagen production tighten your skin for a younger, fresher looking complexion.
In a non-surgical facelift, threads are used to pull the skin. These threads are absorbable by our body, and are the same type of threads as those used to suture cuts on our skin.
These threads pull our skin from the inside to an upwards and inwards direction to lift the skin, contour the face, and enhance facial features.
Facelift is also known as rhytidectomy, a cosmetic surgery procedure that helps give your face a more youthful appearance.
What happens during a facelift/face reshaping procedure?
Step 1: Anaesthesia
Face reshaping is a long procedure, usually about 4 hours give or take. So general anaesthesia is the preferred choice because patients can't stay still for 4 hours under local anaesthesia.
During this phase also, a variety of other procedures can be done to further enhance the outcome of the facelift or face reshaping procedure. These include:
Facial implants
Soft tissue augmentation to recontour your facial structure
Resurfacing techniques to improve the tone and texture of your facial skin
Wrinkle reduction via injections
Step 2: The Incision
Depending on the degree of change you'd like to see, your facelift choices include a traditional facelift, limited incision facelift, or a neck lift (this should be decided in the discussion phase pre-surgery!)
A facelift incision often begins at the hairline at the temples of your head, and continues around your ears and ends in the lower scalp section.
Fats may be sculpted or redistributed around your face, jowls and neck, and underlying tissues can also be repositioned. The deeper layers of your facial skin and muscles are also lifted.
Your skin is then re-draped over the uplifted contours and excess skin is trimmed away. A second incision under the chin may be necessary to further improve an aging neck.
Step 3: Closing the incisions
Sutures or skin adhesives are used to close the incisions.
Once these incisions are healed, the incision lines from the facelift procedure are well concealed within the hairline and in the natural contours of the face and ear, so no visible marks on your face!
Step 4: See the results
The visible improvements of a facelift or face reshaping procedure will appear as the swelling and bruising subside.
Your final result should not only restore a more youthful and rested appearance, but also help you feel more confident about yourself!
Facelift is also known as rhytidectomy, a cosmetic surgery procedure that helps give your face a more youthful appearance. What happens during a facelift/face reshaping procedure? Step 1: Anaesthesia Face reshaping is a long procedure, usually about 4 hours give or take. So general anaesthesia is the preferred choice because patients can't stay still for 4 hours under local anaesthesia. During this phase also, a variety of other procedures can be done to further enhance the outcome of the facelift or face reshaping procedure. These include: Facial implants Soft tissue augmentation to recontour your facial structure Resurfacing techniques to improve the tone and texture of your facial skin Wrinkle reduction via injections Step 2: The Incision Depending on the degree of change you'd like to see, your facelift choices include a traditional facelift, limited incision facelift, or a neck lift (this should be decided in the discussion phase pre-surgery!) A facelift incision often begins at the hairline at the temples of your head, and continues around your ears and ends in the lower scalp section. Fats may be sculpted or redistributed around your face, jowls and neck, and underlying tissues can also be repositioned. The deeper layers of your facial skin and muscles are also lifted. Your skin is then re-draped over the uplifted contours and excess skin is trimmed away. A second incision under the chin may be necessary to further improve an aging neck. Step 3: Closing the incisions Sutures or skin adhesives are used to close the incisions. Once these incisions are healed, the incision lines from the facelift procedure are well concealed within the hairline and in the natural contours of the face and ear, so no visible marks on your face! Step 4: See the results The visible improvements of a facelift or face reshaping procedure will appear as the swelling and bruising subside. Your final result should not only restore a more youthful and rested appearance, but also help you feel more confident about yourself!
You don't necessarily have to go under the knife for a facelift. With the latest treatments and technology, facelifts have become more and more common. If you have sagging or loose skin, a facelift can help you stimulate collagen production tighten your skin for a younger, fresher looking complexion. In a non-surgical facelift, threads are used to pull the skin. These threads are absorbable by our body, and are the same type of threads as those used to suture cuts on our skin. These threads pull our skin from the inside to an upwards and inwards direction to lift the skin, contour the face, and enhance facial features.
Dermal fillers are usually made of hyaluronic acid, which is a substance naturally present in our body. Hence, it is usually safe and compatible when injected into our body. Dermal fillers are injected into our face for restoration, enhancement, or facial refinement. Usually, dermal filler injections are used to treat wrinkles, skin rehydration, facial volume, and also nose, chin and lip augmentation.
Thread lift is a more recent technological treatment to lift sagging skin and reduce wrinkles, resulting in a more youthful looking, redefined face. Using surgical suture threads to lift your skin, this treatment produces almost immediate results, and the ingredients in the suture threads also stimulates your body to produce collagen to maintain its youthful look. The effects for Threadlift can last up to 18 months.
Do you wish to change a particular feature or reshape any parts of your face? Be it your cheeks, chin, jaw, or even to create dimples - you can consider getting a face reshaping treatment to achieve your ideal face shape you have always wanted! There are both surgical and non-surgical treatment options.
Face contouring is a procedure to help you achieve the shape and contour of the face you want. There are several different treatments that can be used in contouring. You can discuss with the doctor to see which type of face contouring treatment is the most suitable for your desired outcome.
Cheek augmentation is done to enhance the shape of the face, particularly at the cheek area. Cheek augmentation is usually done to fill out sunken cheeks or to create high cheekbones. Cheek augmentation can be done on an outpatient basis, and full recovery period usually lasts for about 1 to 2 weeks.
Do you have an implant that you wish to be removed? Sometimes our implants may not turn out the way we expected it to do, and an implant removal procedure may be required.
Do you wish to have dimples? Some people have dimples on their cheeks naturally but not all of us have them. Dimpleplasty can create artificial dimples quickly on an outpatient basis. Recovery period is minimal, about a few days after the treatment.
Chin augmentation reshapes the chin and chin line, sometimes to enlarge the chin or to sharpen the chin. Chin augmentation can also be done for health purposes, to balance facial features and strengthen the chin line. Patients usually need to stay for at least one night after a chin augmentation procedure. Full recovery period for chin augmentations usually take a month or up to 6 weeks.
Aging is inevitable. Many people that treat aging symptoms (e.g.: wrinkles) opt for anti aging skin care products such as eye cream, face cream, etc. Most of these products are expensive, which is why we rather choose natural ways to slow down conditions associated with aging.
Generally, medical doctors will suggest these to patients:
Lifestyle modification
Nutritional planning
Body and mind regeneration
Everyone experiences aging in a different way and at a different point of time in their lives. Due to different body and mind composition, consultation is important in order to determine the best treatment for anti-aging.
Anti-aging treatments are one of the top procedures done in the medical aesthetics field.
From aging problems like wrinkles and age spots to skin texture problems like sagging skin and large pores, there are different treatments done by verified aesthetic doctors for specific conditions.
Some examples include laser treatments for spot and pigmentation removal, ultrasound treatments for wrinkle reduction and skin tightening, or facelifts to give you a more youthful appearance.
The most common aging symptom, sagging skin, can be treated effectively via cosmetic surgeries.
Fat transfer can help you remove or insert fat into your skin areas that need firming the tightening, while facelifts can help tighten your skin and give you a more youthful appearance as a whole.
Laugh lines, or also known as nasolabial folds, are one of the common features of aging. These are the two skin folds that run from the corner of your nose the corner of your mouth. There are several treatment types for getting rid of laugh lines, like fillers, skin lifting, or laser. You can discuss with your doctor on which treatment is suitable for you.
Has your skin lose its elasticity and become loose due to a loss of collagen due to aging? Or maybe you have experienced a weight loss but your skin has started to become loose and saggy? Loose skin treatment like skin tightening, skin lifting or body contouring can be done to return your skin to its tight, youthful appearance.
Mesotherapy is the injection of medications or nutrients to aid in hair growth to treat hair loss. During a mesotherapy treatment, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other active substances are injected directly into the third layer of our skin where our blood vessels are, activating the dormant (inactive) hair follicles and stimulate the scalp to aid with hair growth.
Do you have loose or sagging skin? Skin lifting can help in rejuvenating your looks, giving you tighter, more youthful looking skin. Common treatment areas are the face, arms, and thighs. Have a discussion with your doctor on your expected results, and you can decide which treatment to have to achieve your desired look.
When the tissues and muscles around your eyes weaken and loosen during the aging process, you may notice eye bags developing under your eyes. However, eye bag cream or eye bag removal products are only effective as preventive care, and cannot effectively treat eye bags after they have developed. There are different types of treatment for getting rid of eye bags, like PRP or dermal fillers. Discuss with your doctor to decide on which is the most suitable treatment for your condition.
Did you know that your skin is actually constantly exposed to harmful conditions like ultraviolet radiations and pollution, causing a loss of moisture and elasticity for your skin? Skin rejuvenation helps to refresh your facial skin and get rid of dead cells and any particles inhibiting healthy skin growth. There are several different technologies used in facial rejuvenation which you can choose with your doctor's advice.
Have dermal fillers injected but didn't achieve your expected outcome? Or you have a different desired look you wish to achieve now? You can discuss with the doctor about fiiler correction treatments, to re-adjust or make changes to your present fillers.
Collagen, in human or animal, is the most abundant protein that makes up most parts of the living body. Collagen is a natural protein, that makes up 70%-80% of our skin dermal layer. Thus, replenishing collagen on our skin becomes essential in order to maintain a youthful look by delaying the signs of aging. While we can’t demand our collagen production to run like when we’re younger, we may, however, induce some collagen to add on to what we have, or cause the body part to produce more collagen. Hence, collagen fillers may be a way to help you regain your youthful looks by “plumping up” your wrinkles and folds. They are also useful in correcting fine lines and wrinkles.
If you don't prefer invasive treatments or facelift surgeries for your anti-aging treatment, you can opt for more technologically-advanced skin tightening procedures using laser. If your have sagging skin, loose skin, wrinkles, lines, or uneven skin tone and texture, laser skin tightening can help you treat these skin conditions and return youthfulness to your face without any surgical process.
Thread lift is a more recent technological treatment to lift sagging skin and reduce wrinkles, resulting in a more youthful looking, redefined face. Using surgical suture threads to lift your skin, this treatment produces almost immediate results, and the ingredients in the suture threads also stimulates your body to produce collagen to maintain its youthful look. The effects for Threadlift can last up to 18 months.
Did you know that your skin is actually constantly exposed to harmful conditions like ultraviolet radiations and pollution, causing a loss of moisture and elasticity for your skin? Skin rejuvenation helps to refresh your facial skin and get rid of dead cells and any particles inhibiting healthy skin growth. There are several different technologies used in facial rejuvenation which you can choose with your doctor's advice.
During our aging process, our skin cells begin to lose moisture and less collagen is produced in our skin, causing aging signs, especially wrinkles. Treatments for wrinkles, either surgical or non-surgical options, help you get rid of your wrinkles, and you can discuss with your doctor to have other effect like skin tightening done, too.
Dermal fillers are usually made of hyaluronic acid, which is a substance naturally present in our body. Hence, it is usually safe and compatible when injected into our body. Dermal fillers are injected into our face for restoration, enhancement, or facial refinement. Usually, dermal filler injections are used to treat wrinkles, skin rehydration, facial volume, and also nose, chin and lip augmentation.
Sometimes we need to refresh and rejuvenate our skin that is constantly exposed to harmful conditions like ultraviolet radiations and pollution, causing a loss of moisture and elasticity for your skin. A laser skin resurfacing treatment can help you get rid of the blemishes on your skin, depending on your decision made with the doctor on what to treat, resulting in healthy, glowing skin.
Fat injection procedures extract fats from areas where you have them in excess, usually in your thighs, tummy, or buttocks. After that, these fats are injected into areas where you desire - cheeks, breasts, nose, or other parts to create a better contouring effect and give you a more natural youthful appearance. Fat injection uses fats from your own body tissue, so you won't have to worry about your body rejecting foreign substances.
Fat transfer is the procedure where fats from one part of your body is removed and transferred to another part of your body. Some common transfers done are taking fats from the tummy, hips or thighs and transferring them to the breasts, face or buttocks. During the treatment, the doctor first determines where the fats will be harvested from, usually surgically. The harvested fats are then processed (centrifuged) and then injected into the areas where you wish the fats are transferred to.
