Facelift Procedure And How Long It Last

Although the majority of Facelift Procedure in Canada are done under a local anesthetic with sedation, some doctors prefer to use a general anesthetic. In that case, you'll sleep through the Facelift surgery. This will be discussed with your cosmetic surgeon during your Facelift consulatation. The Facelift Procedure is performed in a surgeon's offece-based facility, an outpatient surgery centre or a hospital. Certain conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure should be monitored after the Facelift surgery and may also require a short inpatient stay. The operation usually takes between two or five hours.

Procedure:
Immediately before the Facelift operation, your hair is pulled back and the incision sited are marked. A fine strip of hair will be trimmed along the incision lines. Your face is washed with an anti-bacterial solutio, and gauze is placed in your ears to keep out fluids.

The surgeon operated on one side if the face at a time. The Facelift insicion usually begins inside the hairline at the templates and then slopes down in front of the ear and around the earlobe until it reaches the nape of the neck at the back of the scalp. The skin is then lifted at the temples ans around the ears ans separated from the underlying fat and muscles. The Facelift or SMAS and muscles are tightened and the layers of underlying tissue are pulled up and back. Stitches are then used to secure the layers behind and above the ears, and the excess is cut off. The skin is drawn over the tightened layer of muscle and membrane, and then trimmed.

The Facelift stitches used to close the insicion are usually placed in front of, or just inside, the aer, behind the ear and in the hairline. For improvements in the neck region, a small insicion may be made during Facelift procedure under the chin so that excess fat can be removed and the platysma muscles tightened. These days many Facelift surgeons use liposuction to remove excess fat. If any blood begins to collect under the skin, a small drainage tube may be temporarily inserted in the back of the ear. Many Facelift surgeons prefer to use large, firm facial dressings for the first two days after the operation, which reduces bleeding and often the necessity for drains.

A skilled Facelift surgeon will make sure you retain a natural-looking hairline. ONe way of avoiding losing the hair that grows along the front of the ears by a short, horizontal cut below the sideburns. A natural-looking hairline is retained by lifting the skin back, but not up. The small scar can usually be hidden by the hair. Only a fine strip of hair is trimmed before the opration and it is this skin, clipped of its hair, which is removed during the Facelift opration. This means that afterwards there is little evidence of shaving or baldness along the oprating line.

How long will Facelift last?
This is a difficult question to answer because it depends on may factors. Ageing continue at its usual rate, but there isn't a specific predictable future time at which the benefits of a Facelift will be lost to the ageing process; neither does the face suddenly drop after a few years. For anyone undergoing a repeat Facelift, the usual period between oprations is about 10 years, but this very much depends on the individual.