Lifting

The procedure is designed to rejuvenate your face and combating
the effects of time, stress, sun exposure, and environmental damage.

There are 3 ways to proceed:

• The lifting cervico - facial: Correction of sagging facial features and neck. No effect on the wrinkles or eye bags.
  
• The temporal lift: Raising the eyebrows and crow's feet soften (reduce wrinkles) in the upper outer eye.
  
• The forehead lift: Stretch the muscles of the forehead, correct and smooth out wrinkles.

Your surgeon will give you specific instructions on how to prepare for surgery, including guidelines on eating and drinking, smoking, and taking or avoiding certain vitamins and medications. 

If you smoke, it’s especially important to stop at least a week or two before and after surgery; smoking inhibits blood flow to the skin, and can interfere with the healing of your incision areas. If your hair is very short, you might want to let it grow out before surgery, so that it’s long enough to hide the scars while they heal.

In order to optimize patient’s comfort post operatively via pain medicine, she will remain hospitalized for 2 or 3 days.

The compressive bandage is removed within 2 days. Stitches could be left 6-10 days. In general, the patient may be back at work from the third week after the surgery even though a discrete swelling (oedema) will persit.

Within 2 to 3 months we can usually have a good idea about the final result.

Usually 5 to 10 years.

Injury to the nerves that control facial muscles or feeling (usually temporary but may be permanent), infection, bleeding, poor healing, excessive scarring and asymmetry or change in hairline.