Face Lift – Things to Check Out

You do not need to let your aging to take over the youthful appearance. In hands of the experienced and skilled, and board-certified surgeon, Fotona face lift in Singapore, you can thwart effects of time and gravity and bring back your natural and vibrant appearance that you had once. You can tackle your early aging signs prior to it begins taking a hold of your skin and face.

What’s facelift?

The facelift removes any excess facial skin. This surgery is generally done as the outpatient procedure. It will involve local anesthetics & sedatives. Besides the procedure will take around two to five hours, and person will generally go home on a same day after the surgery is done.

In the traditional facelift, surgeon makes the incision over your ear, and extending up in the hairline and behind the ear in your hair-bearing scalp. Then surgeon lifts your skin off deeper facial muscles & fat, pulls the skin gently in the upward or posterior direction, and this removes any excess skin. They can tighten your face deeper tissues.

One small cut or incision will be made under your chin to tighten up your skin and even deeper tissue of your neck. It is called neck lift. These incisions are closed with the sutures & staples. Drain can be placed under your skin behind ear for 1 or 2 days, and remove excess blood or fluids. Bandages can be applied.

Procedure for the facelift

Facelifts differ depending on the desired results. Traditionally, incision is generally made in a hairline near your temples. This incision goes over the ear and hugging your earlobe, back to your lower scalp behind ears.

Excess skin and fat will be removed and redistributed from your face. Any underlying connective tissue and muscle will be tightened and redistributed. If there is minimal skin sagging, “mini” facelift can be done. It involves shorter incisions. Suppose neck lift is going to be done, your excess fat and skin can be removed. Skin of your neck can be tightened and then pulled up. It is generally done through the incision under your chin.

These incisions have dissolvable skin glue or sutures. In a few cases, you have to return to your surgeon to get the stitches removed. These incisions can be made in a way it blends perfectly with the facial structure and hairline. Often you will have the surgical drainage tube just after the surgery and bandages wrapping the face.