Complete face lift - Rhytidectomy - Affordable prices
Face lift or rhytidectomy is a surgical procedure used to lift facial tissue and make the skin look as it was before time had its effect on it. If you feel young and lively, but your mirror no longer shows you that image, a facelift may be of great help to you. Challenge the passage of time
What does face lift surgery do?
It tightens the skin and lax (hypotonic) muscles of the face. It helps improve the youthful appearance of mature people (about 40 years old) that have not aged yet and that wish to delay the aging process for personal or professional reasons. It rejuvenates the face of older people. The rejuvenating effect will be more impressive if the aging marks such as wrinkles and hanging skin are more pronounced. It is divided in two areas:
A) Upper or temporal lift (also known as mini-face lift or lateral brow lift): it illuminates and refreshes the look and can be performed as a single procedure in young people who do not need to have their cheeks rejuvenated.
B) Mid lift: used to correct the cheeks. Performed together with eye lift surgery (blepharoplasty), neck lift surgery, and brow lift surgery, it completely rejuvenates the face and neck. The neck lift tightens skin and muscle that has become loose and hanging due to aging or hereditary family traits. It also removes excess fat from the neck and the double chin.
How
is Rhytidectomy Surgery performed?
The surgeon makes a vertical incision from the temples to the upper part of the ears. This incision, which is usually made behind the hair-growth line so that the resulting scar will be concealed, is the one used in upper or temporal lift surgery. In mid lift surgery (cheeks), the same temporal incision we just described extends further down in front of the ears and follows their natural outline to the back (periauricular line).
By means of this incision, the surgeon separates the muscle and the skin from the face, he tightens them and replaces them further up to achieve a more youthful look. He cuts the excess skin and muscle and sutures. In order to rejuvenate lower areas of the face, such as the outline of the jaw, it is necessary to perform neck lift surgery.
Hospitalization: No hospitalization is required if the
surgery is performed with local anesthesia. If it was performed with general
anesthesia, you will be hospitalized for one day or one night.
Anesthesia: Local anesthesia and complementary sedation, or general
anesthesia, according to the complexity of the case.
Rhytidectomy Surgery length: Between 90 minutes and 2 hours if it is
partial. Between 3 and 4 hours if it is complete.
In order to perform the neck lift, the surgeon makes an incision that has two sections: the first one is vertical and extends behind each ear (retroauricular), and the second one is horizontal and extends about 2 inches (5 cm) along the hair-growth line on the back of the neck (mastoid). In some cases it may be necessary to make a small incision under the chin and/or a liposuction of the double chin to obtain better results. By means of these incisions, the surgeon separates the muscle and the skin from the neck, he tightens them and replaces them further up to achieve a more youthful look. He cuts the excess skin and muscle and sutures.
What
does rhytidectomy surgery NOT do?
It does not eliminate crow's feet nor wrinkles around the lips, since these wrinkles do not appear as a result of the aging process, but due to repeated muscle contraction.
It does not produce any changes in the area above the eyes. In order to do that, forehead or brow lift surgery will be necessary.
The Results
The results are very noticeable and last quite long. Most patients are satisfied with them. A face lift will not, of course, make time stop, but it will make your face look younger and fresher for a long time. Even after more than 10 years you will look younger than you really are and you will look much better than if you had never had this surgery.
It tightens the skin and lax (hypotonic) muscles of the face. 
