Where facelifts might be tailing off, it’s my view that there’s another huge surgical ‘lift’ trend already waiting in the wings to take over.
I’m talking about ‘hairline lowering’, or ‘foreheadplasty – a specialist area fast gaining momentum here in the UK. The surgery itself is designed to lower the hairline, reduce the height of the forehead and to correct the normal temple recession to give a more rounded hairline.
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Surgical facelift will never die. Many aging women with accelerated aging of muscle and skin will still continue to need the hands of good surgeons who understand the anatomy of the face. Injectables and energy based devices will never replace surgery.
Trust me, facelift is alive and well, I just did my 1,045th lift and will do almost 100 the year. There is no replacement for significant skin excess and I see a lot of patients waste money (often more than the cost of a lift) on overhyped procedures that promise but don’t deliver results. Facelift surgery is not for every patient, but for patients that develop significant submental skin excess and jowling there is no replacement. Maybe someday, but not now. Facelift is only dead to those practitoiners that don’t do them. To most facial surgery practices, facelifts are alive, well and thriving.
It is interesting how differently we see stigmas of aging and their management. On the other side of Atlantic we are seeing neck rejuvenation and face lifts as a growing trend; we do more and more face lift procedures on patients that are in their late forties and early fifties with excellent outcomes and longevity. On the other hand, Botox (except in cases with low or high hairline)significantly reduced number of forehead/brow lifts!?
It is interesting to see how differently we see stigmas of aging and their surgical management. On this side of Atlantic aging of the neck and lower face is the major concern; number of neck and face lifts is constantly increasing. We are doing face/neck lifts more frequently on patients in their late forties and early fifties because of their simplicity and longevity of results. On the other hand, number of brow/forehead lifts is decreasing with use of Botox?!