Natural Facelifts & Mini Facelifts

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.

A message about facelifts from Dr. Santos: 

All of us essentially undergo the inevitable changes associated with aging and aging of the face. Slowly, but surely, the face will age and change over time, and generally not for the better. Some individuals will age more quickly than others, some will age more gracefully than others, but an overall consequence of father time is ongoing anatomical changes to the face, which result in a less youthful, more wearied appearance. Probably the most important hallmarks of aging and loss of youth, center around the lower third of the face and the neck region including the changes of face and neck sagging, wrinkling, increased loose skin, fat deposition, fullness, weathering of skin, and jowl formation. In time, these changes can occur to all of us. There are many factors that accelerate this process including sun exposure, high stress, poor nutrition, weight gain, weight loss, and poor physiologic health. Further and importantly, cigarette smoking is a significant factor; the result of which is acceleration of the aging process including accelerated skin wrinkling, and skin weathering.

None of us are immune to this process and the inevitable happens particularly to men and women over 50. Those who feel youthful, energetic, and as capable as they were in their 30s and 40s, tend to become even more distraught when they realize that their facial aging changes are more advanced than their level of physical health and overall inner perception of how they perceive themselves. What happens is that instead of routinely glancing in the mirror to see how we look, we avoid the mirror altogether. We avoid the mirror at routinely because the face staring back is sad, tired, and not the person we used to be, nor the person we perceive ourselves to be. What happens is that we find that less and less the more youthful generation pays less attention to us and to what we have to say and so that we become less important in daily conversations, work, and socially. Further and of more impact to our lives, there tends to be less interest from the opposite gender. There tends to be less intimacy than there was in our 30s and 40s. The truth is facial aging impacts our life. Essentially, we do not like how others, particularly the opposite sex, look at us, and internally we understand that there is a bit of a loss of who we are and a loss of our youth. Many will argue that we do not essentially feel that we matter as much as we did in the past.

What can we do about this? Is it possible to really change the way we look, and do so of course in a natural way? Should we remain accepting of the way that we look? Should we simply say that aging gracefully is a required duty for us humans to endure? Do we essentially accept the fact that we look older than we feel going forward, particularly after the age of 50? Of all of the things we can do for ourselves, of all the procedures that we can consider, of all the facial plastic surgery options available, facial rejuvenation, particularly a natural and tailored facelift, has probably become the most desirable and the most life-transforming. This makes sense because we can always hide aging changes throughout the rest of our body including sunglasses for our eyes or heavy sweaters and baggy pants for our upper and lower torsos. A significant majority of individuals who are enthusiastic and motivated enough to make a difference in their life and who undergo a natural and tailored facelift, will experience significant satisfaction. The result is not only a better and more useful facial appearance, but so often the result is an increase in self-confidence, a sense of return of energy and vigor, a return of a sense of feeling and being significant and mattering in life’s daily events, and a sense of getting back into the saddle again. Out of experience, it is easy to say that the result is that you matter more and the opposite sex pays attention more.

When working with a board certified and highly experienced facelift surgeon a natural and more youthful (you only younger) appearance is at hand! A tailored and natural Facelift procedure is a solution that aspires to remove the hallmarks of aging; the sagging jowl; the loose redundant skin in the neck, the excess skin and tissue in the submental area. The jowls are reduced or removed, the neck becomes tighter, and the fullness of the neck goes away substantially. Often, one can lose 8 to 15 years of facial physiological age and your appearance suggests loss of weight. The result is that you look and ultimately feel younger.

If you are at all curious about what a facelift may be able to do for you or someone you care about, please feel free to reach out and I would be happy to sit down and discuss any questions you may have and what they mean for you.

Sincerely,
Dr. David Santos

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