Increasingly, women and men who want to regain their youth ask us the question: is there an alternative to surgical lifting?
Before giving an answer it is good to make a quick overview on the meaning of face lift and on cosmetic surgery practices aimed at restoring youth to the face and partly also to the body.
LIFTING SURGICAL "To lift" is the English verb that means "to lift", in our case to lift the relaxed tissues, which have lost their tone due to the aging of the skin. With a deep facelift, excess skin is removed, and the underlying muscles under the chin, on the sides of the mouth and on the cheeks. Excess fat is removed or volume is added in the empty areas.
The cosmetic surgeon practices incisions on both sides of the face near the hairline, lifts the skin and the iron by removing excess. The intervention, which lasts several hours, is performed under general or local anesthesia and requires a period of convalescence of at least two weeks. Most of the scars are hidden in the hair, above and behind the ears. The final result will be visible after two or three months. Although the intervention has become routine and can be considered safe, there is always the risk that some nerve will be damaged resulting in muscle paresis.
To see a fully achieved cosmetic surgery result takes about a year. In any case the deeper wrinkles can not be completely smoothed but will be considerably attenuated.
The procedure described above concerns the complete lifiting applicable to cases of severe aging. Naturally, the surgical facelift can be performed, as necessary, even partially. In the practice of aesthetic surgery, facial rejuvenation interventions are distinguished as follows:
Face lifting or cervico-facial lifting to give the face a more youthful appearance, improving the face without altering its physiognomy
The facelift of the middle third of the face, or Midface-lift to restore fullness to the cheeks, lifting and reshaping the cheekbones
The lifting of the forehead and eyebrow to lift the drooping eyebrows and eliminate wrinkles on the upper part of the face and forehead.
THE FILLERS A separate chapter deserves the interventions, or rather the treatments, performed by means of punctures of fillers called "fillers".
Fillers are active substances that are injected with a fine needle into the skin of the face to fill wrinkles, folds, depressions, scars, pronounced nasogens furrows, or to increase the volume of the lips, chin and cheekbones.
Treatment consists of one or more stings of hyaluronic acid or collagen. The bites are made with micro needles and are more or less painful and expensive. Another negative aspect of fillers is not to last permanently. The filler effect usually lasts from three months to a year, depending on the type of treatment performed.
BOTOX OR BOTULIN Another treatment performed to eliminate wrinkles is the nodule of botox or botulinum.
Botox is a toxin that is injected into particular areas of the face to stop muscle contraction and smooth wrinkles. The effects of botox in the aesthetic field are quite rapid, it takes only a week to see the first results. The downside of the operation is that the effects drop after a very short time. After 3-4 weeks, the toxin no longer has any effect on the area subject to injection and to restore the effect periodically must be inoculated with a certain amount.
Conscious and perhaps frightened by the extreme criticality of the surgical facings and bites and not wanting to lose the hope of being rejuvenated, it is natural to wonder if there are less invasive and less impacting methods, able to avoid the consequences resulting from a rather prolonged recovery with the inevitable subtraction from the social life of the patient.
The answer is YES: there are methods that completely eliminate the need for cosmetic surgery. We list some, but there are others that we will describe elsewhere. We note that these methods use treatments, active ingredients and machines (beauty devices) based on innovative scientific and technological studies that are widely used in aesthetic medicine all over the world.
LIFTING SURGICAL "To lift" is the English verb that means "to lift", in our case to lift the relaxed tissues, which have lost their tone due to the aging of the skin. With a deep facelift, excess skin is removed, and the underlying muscles under the chin, on the sides of the mouth and on the cheeks. Excess fat is removed or volume is added in the empty areas.
The cosmetic surgeon practices incisions on both sides of the face near the hairline, lifts the skin and the iron by removing excess. The intervention, which lasts several hours, is performed under general or local anesthesia and requires a period of convalescence of at least two weeks. Most of the scars are hidden in the hair, above and behind the ears. The final result will be visible after two or three months. Although the intervention has become routine and can be considered safe, there is always the risk that some nerve will be damaged resulting in muscle paresis.
To see a fully achieved cosmetic surgery result takes about a year. In any case the deeper wrinkles can not be completely smoothed but will be considerably attenuated.
The procedure described above concerns the complete lifiting applicable to cases of severe aging. Naturally, the surgical facelift can be performed, as necessary, even partially. In the practice of aesthetic surgery, facial rejuvenation interventions are distinguished as follows:
Face lifting or cervico-facial lifting to give the face a more youthful appearance, improving the face without altering its physiognomy
The facelift of the middle third of the face, or Midface-lift to restore fullness to the cheeks, lifting and reshaping the cheekbones
The lifting of the forehead and eyebrow to lift the drooping eyebrows and eliminate wrinkles on the upper part of the face and forehead.
THE FILLERS A separate chapter deserves the interventions, or rather the treatments, performed by means of punctures of fillers called "fillers".
Fillers are active substances that are injected with a fine needle into the skin of the face to fill wrinkles, folds, depressions, scars, pronounced nasogens furrows, or to increase the volume of the lips, chin and cheekbones.
Treatment consists of one or more stings of hyaluronic acid or collagen. The bites are made with micro needles and are more or less painful and expensive. Another negative aspect of fillers is not to last permanently. The filler effect usually lasts from three months to a year, depending on the type of treatment performed.
BOTOX OR BOTULIN Another treatment performed to eliminate wrinkles is the nodule of botox or botulinum.
Botox is a toxin that is injected into particular areas of the face to stop muscle contraction and smooth wrinkles. The effects of botox in the aesthetic field are quite rapid, it takes only a week to see the first results. The downside of the operation is that the effects drop after a very short time. After 3-4 weeks, the toxin no longer has any effect on the area subject to injection and to restore the effect periodically must be inoculated with a certain amount.
Conscious and perhaps frightened by the extreme criticality of the surgical facings and bites and not wanting to lose the hope of being rejuvenated, it is natural to wonder if there are less invasive and less impacting methods, able to avoid the consequences resulting from a rather prolonged recovery with the inevitable subtraction from the social life of the patient.
The answer is YES: there are methods that completely eliminate the need for cosmetic surgery. We list some, but there are others that we will describe elsewhere. We note that these methods use treatments, active ingredients and machines (beauty devices) based on innovative scientific and technological studies that are widely used in aesthetic medicine all over the world.