Face lift

Introduction

Face lift is an operation which has been done since the '70's and represents the best solution to diminishing the aesthetic damage wrought by the age.
As people get old, the effects of gravity, daily stress and sun exposure may show on their faces, as deep wrinkles crop up. The aging process affects both skin and underlying tissues as: face and throat muscles and even the bone skeleton may be the seat of some involutive alterations. Face lift cannot halt this; it can only reverse time by diminishing the most visible aging signs.

What patients can benefit from face lift?

As a rule, face lift is performed on persons aged between 40 and 60, but it can also be done on healthy persons aged 80. One should remember that face lift makes one younger, but not more beautiful, as the surgery mends the age effect.

Surgery hazards

There is no operation without risk. When done by an experienced surgeon, the complications are rare and usually of lesser importance. There are big differences between patients regarding their healing rate so that the result is never completely foreseeable.
As for complications, there may crop up haematoma, infections, or the lesion of a motive branch of the facial nerve. A widened scar and thinned out hair on the temple scar may also show up.