Getting a Mini Facelift
Aazdak Alissimmo
Facelifts are some of the most incredibly popular plastic surgery procedures performed in the world today. Whether you are in New York or Los Angeles, Miami or London, everyone wants to look younger and feel their best. Facelifts are a great way to rejuvenate your appearance.
Some people jump to the facelift as their first choice to get rid of their wrinkles, but surgery should never be the first step in looking younger. Most plastic surgeons will have you try other techniques, such as laser resurfacing and skin creams to tame those wrinkles before surgery is considered.
If the creams and lasers don't work, there are still other treatments available before the step of a facelift surgery. Injections like Botox, the popular brow wrinkle releaser, can be used to make you look younger in some cases. So can the dermal filler Restylane, which can work on mouth wrinkles.
These treatments can be beneficial to many people, but at the end of it all, facelifts are often the final choice of many people searching to look younger. For many, this means the only sort of facelift that was available for many years: the full facelift, a procedure requiring a long cut and surgery.
The long incision made with a full facelift, along the hairline, was used so that surgeons had a way to get to the tissues below the skin - they could then pull them taut, producing a wrinkle free face. Today's surgeons have discovered how to get the same results, only with smaller cuts and less scarring.
Full facelifts are no longer the only options for people wanting to get a facelift - if you do not have wrinkles or issues covering your entire face, you may want to try the mini facelift. The mini facelift can be used when a patient has wrinkles on just half of their face, the lower half, and/or saggy jowls.
Since this surgery is far less extensive, there is less risk - and less recovery time with a mini facelift. The doctor may even be able to perform the surgery without the use of general anesthesia, instead using local anesthesia to numb the area he or she is working on. This will shorten recovery time.
Cutting is kept to a minimum, with incisions that are seen only around the ear in a mini facelift - the skin and tissues are pulled through this area and then secured with sutures and staples in order to keep the area looking smooth and refreshed. This keeps you from looking too "plastic".
Mini facelifts are not the right procedure for everyone. You must need the area of the face rejuvenated that this procedure covers - and you must realize the risk involved in any surgery. If you make sure to research properly, you too can have a great experience with your mini facelift.
Aazdak Alisimo writes about plastic surgery issues for PlasticSurgeonPractices.com, where you can locate a http://www.plasticsurgeonpractices.com/ plastic surgeon in your city.
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