Think you Need a Facelift? Think Again

Facelift has entered the language as a general metaphor for an improvement for anything, such as an old house or even a candidate's image during an election year, but the traditional facelift is a relatively old technology, and these days cosmetic surgeons have many more tools at their disposal and resort to the traditional facelift in only a relatively small number of situations. Before you go to your local cosmetic surgeon demanding a facelift, you should consider your alternatives. This article considers the common changes people's faces go through and the best cosmetic surgery treatments available to remedy them.

Tired Eyes

As we get older we just have too much to do and not enough time. In these cases, sleep gets pushed aside so everything else can get done, making us look tired because we are. The best solution is just to get rest. Whenever possible, set aside time to sleep.

Sometimes, though, sleep is not enough. You may have been tired and stressed, and you may find that your eyes are continually puffy with low-hanging eyelids. You have deep, dark hollows under your eyes. Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) may be helpful to you in this case. Excess skin and fat can be removed, and fat can be transplanted to fill in the hollows. Facial fillers can be used instead of fat if you prefer or if you don't have a suitable donor site.

Sometimes, though, your brow makes your eyelids sag, in which case a brow lift may be the ticket to a younger and more energetic appearance, although over the short-term Botox injections also give very good results for furrowed brows.

Fat Drift

Gravity pulls downward on everything, all the time, and the fat in your face is no exception. The fat migrates from the places we want it, such as under the eyes and in the cheeks and lips where it gives contours to the face and makes us seem healthy and young, to places we'd rather not have it. Double chins and hanging jowls take the place of full, rosy lips and cheeks. And, unfortunately, for some of us, it's not just migrating, but multiplying. If you have excess fat or fat in places you don't want it, you can perhaps get relief through liposuction, which can target localized fat deposits.

Wrinkles

Here is one of the most common problems that people want to correct with a face lift. While a face lift can correct wrinkles in some areas, it is the first, nor necessarily the best, option. If your wrinkles are in your brow, then the best solution to start with is Botox, which is very successful at treating wrinkles in this region. If your wrinkles are in the nasiolabial area (around your nose and mouth), many facial fillers, including Restylane and Hylaform, provide good results without having to resort to expensive, risky, and time-intensive surgery. On the other hand, if you are suffering from fine wrinkles all over your face, one of the best solutions is laser skin resurfacing, which removes the outer, damaged layer of your skin and stimulates the subdermal layers to rejuvenate themselves.

What is it good for?

So, when should one consider a face lift? A face lift is good for treating deep wrinkles in the nasiolabial area and hanging jowls. If the lower portion of your face is suffering from inelastic, sagging skin, surplus fat, and deep wrinkles, a facelift may just be the solution for you. Alone or in combination with other procedures, a facelift remains an important option for facial rejuvenation.

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