Aging is not limited to the face—the neck ages at the same rate, if not faster, than the tissues above it.
Often, the skin and muscles on the neck are not as well maintained as the face.
This lack of maintenance combined with the natural aging process causes sagging skin, muscle laxity, and excess fat on the neck.
Beautiful lady showing her contoured features
Facelift surgery reduces the appearance of lines, wrinkles, volume loss, and sagging skin on the lower two-thirds of the face.
Neck lift surgery smooths and tightens the skin and tissues on the neck.
These procedures can be performed separately to restore youthfulness […]
Adults deal with the stress of facial aging every day. Starting in your 30s or 40s, most people will begin to notice the gradual loosening of the skin, diminishing volume, and other subtle changes in facial appearance.
These changes will not happen overnight, and you will not go from having youthful, taut skin one day to deciding you need a facelift the next. However, given enough time, facial aging will find you eventually.
Natural beauty portrait with hands touching face.
Facelift surgery targets skin laxity, some deeper tissue changes and volume loss by the manipulation of these tissues of the lower two-thirds of […]
It is always important to choose wisely when picking a plastic surgeon, but the stakes are higher when considering a facelift. Your face is the first feature anyone notices about you, and it is always on display. You cannot hide or cover a bad facelift. Your choices are to learn to live with it or undergo a revision procedure that may or may not repair the issue. We have all seen images of bad facelifts on movie stars, news reporters, social media, and in real life. After many years as a plastic surgeon, I am still puzzled by patients who […]
Patients undergo facelift surgery in hopes of removing visible aging from the middle and lower regions of the face. When a facelift is performed by a talented and experienced plastic surgeon, the results can be quite remarkable, yet very natural. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to see some people in public with tell-tale signs of a facelift and unnatural results. Even celebrities are not immune to suboptimal facelifts. Seeking out a facelift expert with an impeccable reputation goes a long way in assuring that the facelift results will be natural and beautiful.
What Causes Unnatural Results?
Improper Skin Tightening
One of the tell-tale […]
Top-Rated Facelift Surgeon in Los Angeles
Cosmetic Town, an online platform that focuses on cosmetic medicine and serves as an educational resource for potential patients, uses strict criteria to determine which plastic surgeon is the best facelift doctor in Los Angeles. Some of the guidelines used when gathering qualitative data for this award are:
Meticulous consumer research using an advanced algorithm
The doctors’ efforts to educate patients and the public about plastic surgery
The doctors’ involvement in peer education (i.e., writing for medical journals)
According to Cosmetic Town, Dr. Boris Ackerman was voted “Best Facelift Doctor in Los Angeles” in 2018. “After 30 years of […]
Minimally invasive facelifts have become a trend in recent years. More and more patients are turning to what has become known as a “weekend lift” to address their unwanted facial laxity. These mini lifts are advertised as being alternatives to traditional facelift surgery for patients who may require a lesser degree of correction. The weekend lift is generally marketed to younger patients (usually in their 40s or early 50s) who are just beginning to notice the onset of facial aging, such as fine lines and wrinkles as well as the subtle development of jowls.
On paper, a weekend lift sounds like […]
Many people are discovering that something can be done about the gradual loss of a triangular-shaped, youthful facial appearance, and the morphing into an older, square-shaped face. Dr. Boris Ackerman a Newport Beach plastic surgeon specializing in facial plastic surgery is one of the plastic surgery specialists in the country adept at performing a procedure called submental liposuction, which largely restores the more youthful triangular facial appearance.
Quite often, as people become older and gain weight, unflattering fatty deposits develop in the face and the surrounding tissue loses elasticity, which obscures the more appealing features of youth. The traditional corrective approach […]
In the past many people thought that cosmetic surgery was vain and superficial. Researchers have now found that individual undergoing cosmetic surgery have improved well-being. Having a facelift will make you look younger and fresher which alters the way you are perceived by others.
Researchers recently conducted a study showing before and after facelift pictures of 170 people. They were asked to score each picture based on personality traits such as trustworthiness and likeability and social skills.
Michael Reilly from Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC said: “What we really wanted to find out was, what are we accomplishing with facial plastic surgery?
“Rather […]
