Every procedure requires some for of anesthesia and traditionally this is a General Anesthesia, meaning you are completely knocked out.  At Facial Beauty, we utilize cutting-edge local anesthesia procedures where you are not fully knocked out but completely comfortable. The advantage of Local Anesthesia that there are less complications & faster recovery time. Our procedures generally take from an hour and thirty minutes to no more than three hours, allowing us to dramatically reduce any risk involved in the procedure.

The biggest drawback to major facial surgery is the downtime.  While recovery time can vary case by case, generally patients can return to work between seven to ten days after the procedure.  We do everything we can for our patients to get you back to your family and back to your daily life of activity & exercise as soon as possible.

At Facial Beauty, we offer low monthly payment plans and pre-qualifications for any additional treatments, affordability has never been easier. If you’ve ever let financing stand in your way of a new you, come talk to us about options you may not know you had. We can even do pre-approvals over the phone so please feel free to contact us anytime.

A message from Dr. Santos about Liposuction and Lipolysis: 

Most of us look a little bit fuller when we attend our 20th or 30th high school reunion than we did back when we were young in high school. Unless we remain thin throughout our lives, it is a simple fact that many of us will take on weight and increased girth to the neck and lower face regions.  With weight gain, the neck and lower face will become plump appearing, will sag more, and will render an overall appearance of looking heavier.  Due to the increased sagging from the extra weight, and the additional neck skin rolling, we will also look older.  Further, lean is aesthetically viewed as more youthful and healthy.  Fullness, increased girth, and increased rolling to the lower face and neck area is unattractive, appears less healthy and has become a very common concern for many patients who seek aesthetic rejuvenation.

Many have a genetic predisposition to fullness to the neck and lower face area as patients will often testify that their family members, parents, grandparents or aunts and uncles, exhibit similar face and neck fat deposition characteristics.  As we get older, we sometimes ask ourselves if we seem to be looking more like our parents.  Also, some women after pregnancy will have gained an additional roll underneath the chin that wasn’t there previous to the pregnancy.  The truth is that the U.S. population has become more and more overweight and obese, and the common culprit for neck and face fullness is simple weight gain.

Liposculpture is a term that simply means to sculpt the adipose layer beneath the skin.  It can include both traditional liposuction (negative suction pressure removal of fat), or laser lipolysis (laser beam melting of the fat beneath the skin surface with an additional element of dermal thermal treatment that can additionally tighten up the skin).  A common technique is to utilize both liposuction and laser lipolysis concurrently.

Lower face, jowl and neck liposculpture provides significant improvement to the overall appearance of the face and neck.  The result is an appearance of greater youthfulness, a thinner face and neck, and an appearance of weight reduction.  Liposculpture by itself without surgical tightening (facelift) works best on those who are young to middle age, specifically those less than 50 years old.  Those individuals who have good skin tone do well with simple reduction of fat with laser tightening of the skin.  However, those individuals with more laxity to the soft tissue and skin, those particularly over the age of 50, tend to be better suited to a combination facelift in addition to liposculpture.

Over the last several years, the addition of laser lipolysis has provided an additional armamentarium for liposculpture technique by providing additional skin tightening.  In addition to reduction of the fat, tightening of the undersurface of the dermal layer of the skin by laser thermal energy, provides a nice addition to the overall improvement of the end result due to overall tightening the skin.  Generally combination of liposuction and laser lipolysis provides a nice balance to the overall aesthetic result and has become the standard for our liposculpture technique.  Appropriate selected candidates undergoing liposculpture will generally achieve a noticeable improvement seen in the mirror.

Dr David Santos was the Medical Director for Lifestyle Lift, responsible for hundreds of facelift surgeons and thousands of procedures.  Having performed over 4,000 facelift procedures himself, Dr. Santos is committed to finding cutting edge techniques to reduce the risk and minimize the downtime of facelift procedures.

• Member American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Member American Board of Otolarnyngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• Member American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery