Q1. Is there an age limit for facelift surgery?
A1: As long as your health condition is good and you can indeed achieve improvement through facelift surgery after blood tests and professional doctor evaluation, there is no age limit.
Q2,How many years can the facelift last?
A2: A successful facelift surgery can make a person look five to ten years younger, but the aging process will not stop. It will take about ten years for the face to return to its pre-surgery appearance.
Q3, Are the wounds obvious?
A3: As long as the tension is not placed on the skin, but on the superficial muscles and fascia, the scar will not be obvious, and the surgical wound is usually hidden in the hair or on the hairline or behind the ear. It will take about half a year to a year to fade away and go undetected.
Q4, Will the expression become stiff and unnatural after facelift?
A4: There will be swelling and slight numbness at the initial stage of the operation. The swelling will subside in about one to two weeks. After one month, it will become natural and you will no longer be smiling.
Q5, Which aging areas can be improved by facelift?
A5: Upper facelift surgery can improve forehead lines, brow pressure, frown lines, crow's feet and drooping eyelids. A mid-face lift can improve nasolabial folds, marionette lines, lips, drooping corners of the mouth, sagging cheeks and minor eye bags. High fascia lift (lower face lift) can improve the jaw line and even turkey neck and neck lines.
Q6, Facelift is painful?
A6: In fact, many patients said after surgery that the pain period is only 1-2 days after surgery. For those who have had breast augmentation or liposuction, the pain associated with facelift is actually lower than that of underarm endoscopic breast augmentation and liposuction.
Q7. How long is the recovery period after facelift surgery?
A7: There will be temporary swelling and bruising after surgery. These are short-term and normal phenomena. Ice application is required for 72 hours after surgery, and a special head bandage is used for compression for 1 week to avoid postoperative swelling and bleeding; 72 hours after surgery Use warm compresses to help reduce swelling. The time it takes to reduce swelling varies from person to person. The effect can be seen in about 4 weeks, and the most natural effect will be seen in 3 months.
Q8. If you have had a facelift surgery before, can you still have it done if your skin is loose now?
A8: Of course it can be done again, and a second lipofilling can be performed six months after the facelift to make the effect of the facelift even better. However, the difficulty will increase each time, so you must find an experienced doctor to perform the surgery.
Q9, What is the difference between endoscopic facelift and traditional facelift?
A9: Endoscopic facelift results in less bleeding and smaller wounds, but it is not suitable for people with too wide foreheads. Because endoscopic facelifts pull the skin upward without excision of the skin, the forehead is too wide and loose. For people who have thin forehead, just pulling it upward will make the forehead appear too wide and high, which will make it look a bit out of proportion. The same should be paid attention to when endoscopic facelift is performed on the mid-face.
Q10, Will there be rejection?
A10: The materials used in endoscopic five-prong brow lift surgery are lactic acid and fruit acid polymers, which are safe and naturally absorbed by the human body (it will be absorbed by the human body in about half a year to a year).
Q11, after facelift, no maintenance required?
A11: Maintenance is required before facelift. You still need to continue maintenance after facelift to maintain the effect of facelift. Of course, any bad lifestyle will accelerate aging. Facelift is not a magic pill, a once-and-for-all operation. Of course, you still need to take care of yourself after surgery.
Q12, Facelift is a single operation?
A12: Nowadays, facelift can be combined with other surgeries, such as endoscopic five-prong brow lift, temporal facelift, under-eye zygomatic and orbital lift, high-cut superficial myofascial system bidirectional stratified facelift, and mid-face lift. At least 6 key surgeries, including shaft liposuction surgery, neck liposuction and facelift surgery, are completed in one go. The purpose of this is to reduce the unnaturalness caused by traditional facelifts that only stretch the face horizontally, as well as the easy recurrence of sagging and other problems ( FE Barton 2002, ST Hamra 2008, TJ Marten 2008) Also because this is an operation that combines many surgical techniques and aesthetics, and the scope of the operation is rich in nerves and blood vessels, it is recommended to be performed by professional plastic surgery specialists designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. , to ensure safety and achieve the best results, retaining your precious youth!
Q13, How to choose the facelift treatment that suits you? Is there a limit to the number of face lifts on the same area? How long should be the interval between each treatment?
A13: The skin will age with age. Usually, you can start actively receiving treatment at the age of 30. There are many types of facelift surgery. Of course, it must be evaluated by a professional doctor and a customized surgical plan will be made according to the degree of skin laxity of each person. Usually, the skin quality of those in the younger and mature age groups can be improved through non-invasive sonic facelift treatment, while those in the middle-aged and older age groups can choose facelift surgery for better results. Basically, there is no limit on the number of facelifts, but in principle, the longer the interval between each facelift treatment, the better, at least more than half a year.
Is the skin on your face loose? Because endoscopic facelift surgery does not remove excess loose skin, so for people with loose skin who only undergo endoscopic facelift surgery, they will feel that the loose skin is concentrated. Feeling, so traditional facelift surgery is still one of the options to consider for people with loose skin.
