Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

Facelift

A Facelift and Necklift are transformative procedures designed to rejuvenate your appearance by tightening and lifting sagging skin, reducing wrinkles, and restoring a youthful, natural look.

Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Facelift

Rejuvenate Your Look with Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

Over time, factors such as gravity, sun exposure, and daily stress impact the appearance of our faces and necks. This can lead to deep creases around the mouth, sagging jawlines, and loose folds or fat deposits in the neck. A facelift addresses these signs of aging by tightening the muscles, removing excess fat, and trimming away surplus skin, resulting in a rejuvenated and youthful appearance. Many patients find that they look 10-15 years younger after the procedure.

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Neck Lifts

Achieve a Youthful Neck with Personalized Neck Lifts

Weight fluctuations, aging, and genetics can significantly impact the appearance of the neck over time. A neck lift is a surgical procedure designed to remove excess skin and fat from the neck area, as well as tighten and lift the underlying tissues and muscles, resulting in a more youthful and well-defined neck contour.

Dr. Davis customizes each neck lift to address specific concerns, whether it’s a double chin, turkey wattle, or platysma banding. While a neck lift is often combined with a facelift, it can also be performed as a standalone procedure.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Facelifts

Facelifts, technically known as rhytidectomies (literally, “removal of wrinkles”), rejuvenate the mid- to lower face and neck. Facelifts are most effective for patients who want to correct:

  • Midface sagging
  • Deep creases under the eyes
  • Deep creases between the nose and mouth (nasolabial folds)
  • Jowls due to loss of muscle tone
  • Sagging areas of fat
  • Loose skin and fat under the chin and jaw

Facelifts can produce a dramatic improvement in appearance for patients with the problems mentioned above. However, facelifts do not stop the aging process; in time, signs of aging will gradually appear once again.

Further, facelifts will not rejuvenate the brow, eyelids, nose, and some of the midface. Patients who want to improve these areas may consider combining a facelift with a brow lift or eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty).

Injectable soft-tissue fillers, facial implants and skin resurfacing can also enhance the effects of a facelift.

If you answer Yes to any of the below items — you are a good candidate for a facelift.

  • Wish to improve one or more of the signs of aging indicated above
  • Are men or women whose faces have begun to sag, but whose skin has some elasticity
  • Are generally healthy
  • Do not smoke
  • Have realistic expectations
  • Are considering a facelift for personal reasons, not because someone else is pressuring them to do so.

During your consultation, your doctor will discuss whether this procedure is right for you.

Facelifts are typically outpatient procedures and may be performed in an office-based facility, surgery center or hospital. Patients may have a choice of IV sedation or general anesthesia. The procedure takes about two hours.

The way a facelift is performed varies depending on the surgeon, the patient’s facial structure, and the extent of correction desired. The three most common incision techniques are:

  • Traditional facelift: The “full” facelift for rejuvenating the face, jowls and neck, including fat sculpting, lifting and repositioning of muscle and deeper tissues, and skin trimming and redraping. The incision begins at the temples and travels down to the front of the ear, around the earlobe, and behind the ear to the lower scalp at the hairline. Sometimes, another incision is made under the chin.
  • Limited-incision facelift: For limited rejuvenation around the eyes and mouth, including nasolabial folds and other deep creases. Short incisions are made at the temples and around the ear, and possibly in the lower eyelids and/or under the upper lip as well.
  • Neck lift: A neck lift concentrates on jowls, loose skin on the neck, and fat under the chin. The incision is made around the ear lobe and behind the ear to the lower scalp.

In all three methods, incisions are closed with stitches or tissue glue. Scars are hidden in the hairline and natural contours of the face

After your rhytidectomy, your doctor will wrap the incisions in bandages and may place drainage tubes in the area. The tubes will be taken out the next day, when your hair will be carefully washed. If surgical clips are used to hold the incisions closed, they will be removed one week after the facelift along with your stitches.

At first, you may experience swelling, numbness, bruising, and a feeling of tightness or tension in the face and neck. Your face may look uneven or distorted, and your facial muscles may feel stiff. Most of these usually resolve within 3-6 weeks, and sensation typically returns to normal within a few months. Scars become less red, raised, lumpy or itchy in time.

Many patients return to work by the third week. Camouflage cosmetics can be used to minimize the appearance of bruising.

You should be gentle with your skin and hair as you recover. Men may need to shave behind the neck and ears where areas of beard-growing skin have moved.

Results of a facelift do not last forever. You may want to have another procedure in five or ten years. But in another sense, the effects are permanent; years later, your face will continue to look better than if you had never had a facelift.

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Our Location

Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery is conveniently located in Cherry Hill, NJ, just 15 minutes away from the Ben Franklin Bridge.

Phone:
+1 (856)-424-1700
email:
info@daviscps.com
Address
1916 Marlton Pike
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003