Facelift Singapore: Types, Cost, and Benefits - MH Plastic Surgery

A face lift is a surgical procedure rendered by a plastic surgeon that lifts and tightens the facial tissues, which usually include skin and sometimes involve fat or muscle.

Benefits of Facelifts:
  • Sagging excess skin causes deep folds, e.g., laugh lines and Marionette folds.
  • Severe jowls cause a loss of jawline definition.
  • Turkey-neck deformity caused by loose skin under the chin.
  • Brow ptosis causes severe upper eyelid hooding.

Procedure:-

A curved incision is made in the temple. The scalp in that area is elevated in a downward direction and over the arch and body of the cheek bone. The surgical dissection is completed from below through an intraoral incision on the inside of the upper cheek, which allows the soft tissues to be lifted off the lower part of the cheek bone.

The midface tissues are then lifted and stabilized using an endotine device that hooks the cheek tissues from underneath, lifts them upwards, and suspends them to the muscle in the temple by securing the upper end of the endotine to the muscle with sutures. The endotine device dissolves and disappears six to twelve months later, by which time the lifted midface tissues will have stabilized. The temple wound is closed with skin staples, and the internal cheek wound is closed with dissolving stitches. This technique avoids visible scars on the face since they are hidden within the scalp of the temple and inside the mouth. The procedure takes about 3 hours and is usually completed under intravenous sedation as a day surgery procedure.

Recovery

Postoperative pain is mild and well controlled with oral pain medication. There is a moderate degree of facial swelling, which may be accompanied by mild bruising. The face feels tight. The scalp staples are removed after ten to twelve days. It takes two to three weeks for enough swelling to subside and for some relaxation of the lifted tissues to occur so that the face looks presentable. The downtime is therefore two to three weeks.

After about one month, the face usually looks fairly natural. Exercise can be resumed at this time. The results typically last for five to ten years.

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