Is There a Non Surgical Face Lift That Works?

Every now and again one encounters a facial plastic surgeon who has a keen appreciation of the limitations and pitfalls of formal surgical face lifting. We see patients who have had face lift surgery with disappointing and unnatural outcomes. For the non or minimally invasive surgeon it can prove difficult or sometimes impossible to subsequently perform our facial procedures where the anatomy is distorted and the underlying tissues scarred and inelastic. The underlying tissues can be almost as unrelenting as concrete.

Dr Philip Young a US facial plastic surgeon's response to the question:

"Is there a non surgical face lift that works?" www.realself.com/question/there-non-surgical-face-lift-works  is very interesting and shows great insight for a surgeon who actually does selectively perform face lifts.

    "There are different options to rejuvenating a person's face. You don't necessarily have to undergo a major facelift with long incisions to make yourself look better. A great option is facial fat transfer. When people age, they lose volume in the face and this contributes to the facial skin drooping and the wrinkles to form. It has been the practice of surgeons to cut away skin that appears to be excessive to what it used to be. This approach is not always the best way to make a person look younger. Sometimes the extra skin is the result of the face losing volume and the skin sags and droops due to this process. It is analogous to a grape losing volume when it turns into a raisin.
Traditionally, surgeons have practiced reductive procedures, meaning they reduced what is left. This can make a person look better but oftentimes the person doesn't necessarily look younger. A person will look like a more shapely raisin instead of a younger and healthy looking grape.
Fat injections can restore this volume and help you look younger in a natural way and it can be done with no incisions. Most all of the time, all that is needed are very tiny puncture holes for the special instruments used to restore volume into the face. Other ways to bring youth to your face without surgery include a resurfacing procedure to remove wrinkles, fillers to fill in volume in a piecemeal way over time, etc."

Philip Young, MD

Bellevue Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.drphilipyoung.com

Her Majesty The Queen-Could We Have Retarded The Aging Process?

With minimally invasive and non-invasive techniques it seems certain that the advanced changes of ageing in our lovely queen  (as seen  in the following inventive You Tube link) may have been retarded or minimised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8nJhG1xE5o&feature=em-share_video_user

The Queen over time demonstrates the ageing phenomenon of tissue involution at all facial levels with bone loss, muscle loss, fat loss, sub-cutaneous tissue loss/laxity and skin thinning.

Naturally in the era of the Queen's more youthful years only radical face lift surgery was available to her. Today we  would have had the opportunity to maintain her skin and volumise her soft tissue contraction with various fillers. Her lips would be injected with fillers to maintain their warmth.

Thin lips are unfortunately often associated with a mean appearance. Yet, in youth, the queen displayed fulsome lips that imparted the appearance and impression of a welcoming warmth.

As is the case with many females, it can be seen that the Queen displayed in her the late 40's (corresponding to an approaching menopause and diminished circulating hormones) a time of accelerated involutional changes. Intervention at this stage is very important and modern women have become very much aware of this.

Expert advice and treatment with minimally invasive procedures can maintain the youthful allure and warmth that underpins attractiveness. Our experience is that patients are generally ecstatic with the outcomes of minimally invasive interventions. Our intention is rejuvenate with naturally beautiful outcomes while avoiding an "operated on" appearance.