Timing and effect of facelift revision surgery!

 Timing and effect of facelift revision surgery!

Recently, as the average age of people increases, there are more and more people who want to maintain their appearance to look younger than their actual ages for a longer time. Maybe that’s why Facelift, a surgery that is well-known as an anti-aging lifting surgery, is becoming more and more popular among middle-age group. In Facelift, it pulls the skin surface tissue by stages in a level that matches the skin aging level of the SMAS layer (Superficial Musculo-Aponeurotic System), a thin fascia that is located deep inside the skin, and then fix it. It is a surgery method that can improve the expression wrinkles all over the face and the drooping skin elasticity together at the same time. While Facelift is becoming more popular, the number of people who are considering revision surgery is also increasing. That’s because there are many people who want to have further improvement, as their skin still sags and the wrinkles could not be improved largely after the surgery, or the skin sags again and the wrinkles come out again due to aging over time. For this kind of people who are considering mid-face life revision surgery, most of them are curious about the effect or revision surgery or the good timing to do revision surgery. Therefore, in this post, I will talk about the timing and effect of Facelift revision surgery of Jayjun Plastic Surgery.

Q1. Who are the suitable candidates of Facelift revision surgery?

A. If you do Facelift revision surgery, there are 2 main cases. The 1st case, there are people who visit our hospital again as after a long time has passed since the 1st surgery has been done, the the face gets aging again and they want to lift the face again. The 2nd case, the result of the previous surgery is not satisfying enough, or due to the Facelift, there are some problems that the patients are not satisfied with, for example, side effects, or in relative, there are one side that is lifted more and one side that is lifted less, and the patients  wants to improve this kind of problem. These 2 are the 2 main cases for people who come to have revision surgery.

 

Q2. How long do we need to wait after the 1st surgery has been done if we want to do revision surgery?

A. In general, we would say that about 6 months will be needed. However, we would say that 6 months is the minimum period of time. Generally, depending on the skin condition, or the scars left inside in the previous surgery, those parts can make the revision surgery become difficult to be done, so I would say that it is better for you to meet the medical team directly, let them to touch the face and check the actual face condition, and do the revision surgery if the medical team said it is okay to do so. So, rather than having a thought that revision surgery can be done 6 months after the previous surgery, it would be more accurate for me to say that “After 6 months have passed, consult with specialist doctor and get your current condition checked from them, and if the doctor said that it is okay, then you can do the surgery.”

Q3. Is the effect of revision surgery smaller than that of the previous surgery? 

A. It is different depending on the type of plastic surgery. For the part that people can think that the effect of revision surgery is a bit small, for the situation of the tissues that underwent surgery, as the tissues will tend to become hard and less elastic, even if we pull them, they will not be lifted rapidly, or when we try to pull them rapidly, the tissues are damaged so they get torn easily… as such things can happen, depending on the situation, it may happen that we cannot lift the face as much as we want, so I think that’s why people say something like that. However, if mini-lift wad done, or the SMAS layer was not touched a lot in the previous surgery, there will not be big problems in doing revision surgery, or the result of revision surgery may be better than that of the 1st surgery.

Q4. Is the method used in Facelift revision surgery different from that of the 1st surgery?

A. Although I have talked about it just now, for the situation of revision surgery, there’s a possibility that too many manipulations were done in the inside, or the patients who did the Facelift had received many different procedures or surgeries before, in many of the cases, it is hard to accurately detach the tissues and do the surgery, so Facelift revision surgery may be difficult, but basically, it is more correct for us to say that the surgical methods do not have big differences.

Q5. Is there any way for us to find out about what kind of level the effect would be in advance? 

A. By considering how the previous surgery was done and looking at the condition of the face and skin or the scars, there are parts that we can predict. And about the part about the level of effect revision surgery will bring, we will tell that part to the patients, and what we can directly check is that we can tell the approximate extent that the face can be lifted and do a certain simulation by touching the patients’ face.

So far, I have talked about the parts that you may be curious about, the timing and effect of mid-face revision surgery. For revision surgery, although it is the same for all the revision surgery, we need to accurately examine the condition after doing the surgery, and find out the exact problems accurately, so that the result of revision surgery can be satisfactory. As such, I hope you get an examination and surgery from medical team which has rich experience of the related surgery and good skill.