Face and Neck Lift

Everybody is conscious about their appearance and tries their best to prevent the signs of aging. Thanks to face and neck lift surgery so that you can turn the clock back. An effective face and neck lift operation can make the patient look at least 10 years younger. Thus, if you are 40 years old, you will look like 30. The outcome of this kind of surgery depends on the age of the patient. This means that if your skin has good elasticity, then it can be lifted and move easily to desired place.

Benefits of Face and Neck Lift

The main aim of face and neck lift is to improve the appearance of the patient younger and refreshed. The surgery should be done in such a way so that the appearance does not look like tight mask, but to maintain the natural look. The face consist of various layers of muscle, bone, fascia, skin and fat. As the body grows with age, the tone of the muscle looses.

Fascia is the layer that packages or holds everything together, thins. So, fat drops to accumulated near jowl area. This results the skin in losing its tightness. Fat refuses to get redistributed so that folds and wrinkles starts becoming visible. Cell division and renewal cycle of cell shortens. Gradually, the ability of the skin to to regenerate itself naturally gets lost.

Preparations for Face and Neck Lift

Before you go for surgery, you must go for thorough medical consultation with a face and neck lift surgeon. The surgeon will ask you about your expected results. This helps the surgeon and to get an idea about your expectations and to locate whether your desired results can be achieved or not.

During this same process, the surgeon will test the texture, thickness and elasticity of the skin. Tests are also conducted to know the intensity of folds and wrinkles. The hairlines are also examined so that a suitable location for incisions can be identified. Added to these factors, the conditions of underlying tissues and bone structure is studied in chalking out the customized treatment plan.

After the date of surgery is fixed, you will be advised to take one gram of Vitamin C three weeks prior to the operation so that the body takes less time in healing. You must not take aspirins and aspirins based medicines for at least two weeks before the operation. Pain killers are also included in the list of preventive medicines. If you are a smoker, then you must stop smoking for two weeks before and after the operation. This is because smoking prevents proper blood circulation of the skin. On the day of operation, you must wash your hair properly and remove make-up before you go to hospital. Make sure that you did not apply any moisturizer to your face.

During the operation you will not feel any pain. A tiny incisions will be made to conduct the operation and within two weeks you can resume with your normal work.



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