Facelift

The aim of a facelift is to reduce the signs of aging by improving the contours of the face and neck. Aging is a multifactorial process and depends on your genes, lifestyle, level of sun exposure and the affects of gravity and repetitive facial movements over time. With age there is a weakening of the supporting ligaments of the face, atrophy of deep fat in the midface and loss of skin integrity. This leads to the classic signs of aging such as a loss of midface volume, wrinkles, deepened nasolabial folds and jowls. Whilst fine wrinkles are treated by skin resurfacing, deep wrinkles, jowls and nasolabial folds can be improved by resuspending the descended tissues. A facelift or rhytidectomy is a surgical procedure aimed at tightening the ligaments and tissues deep to the skin, and then redraping the skin in a tension free manner. As such, the face is freshened without an overly ‘operated on’ or ‘windswept’ look.