Facelift (Rhytidectomy)

Lower Facelift

A first cut must be made at the side to the forehead in the temple hairline up to the ears, below the ears up to the nape behind the ears the hairy scalp. If this cut was drawn, the skin must be removed from the lying underneath muscular tissue and fatty tissue. The fat can be used in addition to model the Facelift and the fatty tissue can be better distributed. Then musculature and tissue are tightened. The cervical muscle is stretched at the cervical middle and at the side behind the ears. Fat upholsterers in the chin and in the lower cheek area are sucked off or expanded.

If  the tissue was tightened, the surplus skin parts are cut off. The remaining skin is shortened therefore and now can be pulled to the back. The skin is fixed to the tissue and to the musculature and is joined with steady sutures. Now the new face is tightened and the surplus skin was removed, therefore the folds {wrinkles} were also ironed out. Not only the skin in the face is tightened by this method, but also in the cheeks, in the neck, in the nape and also a double chin can be hidden with it.

After the operation a compression bandage which must be changed daily must be carried during 1 week. Some days after the operation the sutures can be removed. The operation mostly causes swells, bruises and traumatic pains. But after 1-2 weeks these problems have mostly disappeared, the face regenerates very fast.

A Face lift carried out after the newest technics must show the following determining signs:

  • however, unoperated, natural appearance (you have well recovered)
  • long durability.

Upper Facelift (Forehead-lift)

The upper Facelift is used, above all, on people who have accentuated folds {wrinkles} in the forehead. After the birth our body contains mostly liquid. We and also our skin liquid lose the whole life long, one calls this in the terminology Dehydratation (loss of water, dehydration). This process cannot be stopped, but be lengthened only by means of cosmetic materials. The cosmetic means (cream, lotion, etc.) maintain not only the skin, but nourish this with water, therefore the dehydration process of the body can be slowed down. The skin as the according to surfaces biggest organ of the person is very dynamic, can stretch, to new physiological and also pathological events (e.g., breast enlargement or Liposuction) adapt, but all this owes the skin to the water. If it loses with the time the water, this affects in its dynamism, and as a result there form folds{wrinkles}.

The folds in the forehead can be tightened by a Facelift. A cut in the forehead of ear to ear is made. Besides, he can lie curve-shaped or wrestling-shaped in the hair or with a very high forehead on the forehead hair border along. The skin is loosened by the musculature, if necessary the musculature is also loosened too. The detached skin is pulled upwards, the skin excess  is cut off. The skin is fixed to the tissue and to the musculature and is joined with steady sutures.

Postoperativ a dressing  is put on, which must carry the patient or female patient some days . Then the sutures are removed. The forehead, as well as the eyebrows were pulled upwards, a difference of several years is to be felt. The sacked eyebrows look normal again, the rage folds have disappeared. The intervention is carried out under general anaesthetic.

Beside the operational experience of the plastic surgeon the applied technics it is of vital importance for the natural one appearance, to the personal character of the face adequate, after the intervention.

Also the length of the durability is marked decisively by the operation technics. Only by the wasteful preparations technic of the Super-Extended Face-Neck-Lift, together with the rationalisation and shortening of the Hanging-Up-Bands situated under the skin, this is possible. The intervention takes place absolutely painless in deep dawn sleep and local numbing.

Already during the first day no dressings are more necessary and after 2 days the dismissal is possible. The sutures are removed after 8 days. A passing blue discolorations as well as swell are normal after a facelift.

An initial light tension of the face / neck region is normal. Sporty activities can be taken up after approx. 4 weeks again. Solar baths should be avoided for 6 weeks.