Do I need a Face Lift?

As we aged we asked ourselves do I need a Facelift am I at that age? . . .

We know of many procedures that can be done for your face that are cosmetic and the down time is minimal , but when it comes to a permanent treatment or a semi-permanent we have a full facelift or the Sillhouette.

A little history The last several decades have seen significant growth in facial aesthetic surgery , not only in quantity, but quality. Consistent improvements in surgical technique as well as treatment strategy have grown naturally out of a greater understanding of facial anatomy and the aging process. Few procedures have seen as much innovation over the years as the facelift procedure. With this in mind, it is hard to believe that the facelift is just over 100 years old.

While esthetic surgery is relatively commonplace and socially acceptable in modern society, its early 20th century beginnings were secretive in nature. There was animosity against esthetic procedures, even by the surgeons who secretly performed the operations. In the 1920s, the American medical community attempted to ban cosmetic surgery.1 This prompted the early pioneers to perform these surgeries in private clinics or purposely mislabel cases on operative logs to avoid discovery. Publication of surgical techniques was avoided for years. For this reason, the true origin of the facelift procedure is unclear.

We do know that surgeons in both Europe and America were employing early facelift techniques by the early 1900s. Eugene von Hollander is often credited with the first facelift, stating in 1932 that his original procedure was performed on a Polish aristocrat in 1901. Hollander first mentions the performance of this procedure in a chapter entitled “Cosmetic Surgery” in 1912, though he did not mention the actual date of the procedure until later.3 In his chapter he discussed making elliptical skin excisions in natural skin folds near the hairline and ears. Similarly, in 1931 Lexer finally reported his performance of s-shaped excisions in the temporal region and elliptical incisions along the forehead and hairline for an actress in 1906.

Now a days with technology we have so many new ways and procedures and we are proud to say here at the office of Dr. Joseph Yadegar he has performed the Silhouette Instalift for many years now and with great results we have patients happy with their results