Face Lift (Rhytidectomy) surgery : reborn with a young-looking face

Face Lift (Rhytidectomy) surgery :

Reborn with a young-looking face

When people get older, it is inevitable that wrinkles and sagging will appear on the face due to aging. Depending on the moving of muscles, the elasticity of the skin will decrease, and due to the impact of gravity, the skin will sag downwards while wrinkles appear on the forehead, outer corner of eyes and between the eyebrows. Also, due to the stretched skin, the smile lines will become deeper, marionette line will appear and the jawline will droop. Moreover, the sagging of the neck will start to be insane, so the neck wrinkles will start to become severe. In particular, for middle aged people in 40s-50s, they have already been going through aging a lot, and the pace of aging is quick, so many of them feel stressful whenever they look at the mirror. As the average life expectancy increases and the age-range of people who need to participate in social life becomes larger, I think that there are many people who are going self management, resulting that there are many people who look younger than their actual age. 

Therefore, recently, our clinic has been non-stop receiving inquires about various lifting surgeries that can improve the elasticity of the skin. In order to overcome the middle-aged aging without using methods that involve incision, there are many people considering trying ways like filler, Botox, lifting laser surgery and thread lifting, but in fact, these surgeries have limitations in improving deep wrinkles and sagging skin. In other words, for the cases of operations like facial thread lifting, filler operation and laser, even if there is damage of inner tissue of the face or sagging, they simply lift the skin layer only, so they cannot solve the fundamental problems of the middle-aged people and the improving effect will be lowered. This is because as aging progresses, collagen cells in the skin decrease, resulting in a decrease in elasticity, and rapid stretching of SMAS tissue under the skin of the face. This becomes the cause of sagging skin and wrinkles, so for middle-aged people, mid-face lift, also called plastic surgery for middle-aged, which pulls wrinkled skin and fascia in general, can increase the improving effect. If people whose jawline sags and droops due to severe sagging skin, cheek fat pad sags, or who have obvious smile lines, have this surgery, they can expect huge improvement. 

Mid-face lift that being called as plastic surgery for middle-aged, as what is said in its name, it is a surgery that lifts the stretched skin evenly starting from the SMAS tissue of the face, and help to revive the tight elasticity. To put it simply, we can say that it is an effective method that increases the elasticity and remove the deep wrinkles by pulling up the skin of the face. In this surgery is done by doing a minimal incision from the temporal region to the hairline along the front of the ear and the back of the ear. As even the tissue of the SMAS layer is being pulled up directly, even without cutting the bine, the sagging skin of the face can be lifted, and we can expect that a slim, elastic and obvious jawline can be created. If Venus laser which uses the optical fibre to remove the fat and increase the elasticity with small tissue damage, and fat transplant which uses the self-fat to create the well-defined and volumetric young-looking face are done together with the mid-face lift, a more positive effect can be seen.

However, as the surgery does not simply pull the skin only, but it cuts the maintenance ligaments after cutting and detaching the skin, and even appropriately detaches and lifts the SMAS layer which is the cause of aging, the procedures are very complicated, and the difficultly of this surgery can said to be high. In addition, compared with other plastic surgeries, the incision area is wider, and the detachment is deeper, so if this surgery is not well done, the satisfaction may decrease. However, if the skin is being over lifted or the detachment is being done overly, as the facial nerves which is responsible for making facial expressions are right under the SMAS layer, the facial muscles and the facial nerves can be damaged. As a result, You should know that the anatomical knowledge and skills of the medical staffs are the most important thing of the lifting methods. In addition, not only does the recovery period vary depending on the skin type, if you have undergone bimaxillary surgery or facial contouring before, you should have the mid-face lift after the area underwent surgery has been completely recovered. Therefore, you need to have a detailed consultation with medical teams with rich experience before having the surgery.

Last but not least, as it is a surgery that being performed on the face which is a sensitive area, and it involves burdensome procedures like incision, uniform surgery that pursues strong effect can lead to poor results instead. Therefore, you should also pay attention to the parts like safety, which can help you to gain a satisfying result.