Posted December 20, 2024 in Facelifts, Facial Balance
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Many people aren’t aware that a facelift only addresses the lower part of your face. If you want to achieve total facial balance after a facelift, you may want to combine other procedures with your surgery. This blog explores which procedures, both surgical and non-surgical, will bring overall youth and balance to your face.
What Can a Facelift Correct?
A facelift, or rhytidectomy, is designed to smooth and lift the middle and lower sections of your face. It addresses fine lines, wrinkles, and deep folds caused by repetitive facial movements (dynamic wrinkles), as well as sagging skin and displaced fat in the cheeks, jowls, and under the chin.
Facelift surgery doesn’t just eliminate excess lax skin. It also tightens the underlying muscles and tissue structures of your face, which tend to weaken with age, and repositions fat, which migrates downward over time.
However, if you want to achieve a more youthful appearance overall, you can add other surgical and non-invasive procedures to your facelift for comprehensive facial rejuvenation.
Brow Lift
Do you have deep wrinkles and furrows in your forehead and between your eyes? Have your eyebrows migrated downward, making you appear angry or sad? Over time, the muscles in your face that keep your eyebrows elevated begin to lose strength, and the skin’s elasticity decreases, causing your eyebrows to start to droop. You may also notice deepening lines and wrinkles that never seem to smooth out, even when your face is at rest.
A brow lift can smooth creases and forehead lines and raise your eyebrows back up where they belong. Adding a brow lift to your facelift will give your face a more balanced appearance.
Blepharoplasty
Another way to ensure that all of your facial features are in harmony is adding blepharoplasty (also called an eyelid lift) to your facelift procedure. An upper eyelid lift eliminates sagging skin that can obstruct your vision, tightening the muscles of the lid and removing or repositioning the fat in your lids.
A lower eyelid lift also removes excess skin, as well as removing or repositioning fat under the eyes that causes prominent bags and puffiness. Both types of eyelid surgery minimize lines and wrinkles around the eyes and can be performed individually or together to give your eyes a fully refreshed look.
Non-surgical Procedures to Add to Your Facelift
If you’re not ready to add additional surgeries to your facelift but still want to address signs of aging in the upper part of your face, we offer non-invasive injectable treatment options like neurotoxin injections or dermal fillers.
BOTOX® Cosmetic and Dysport® are neurotoxin injections that temporarily immobilize the muscles in your forehead caused by the unconscious expressions you make multiple times a day. The effects last several months and, with consistent use, can “train” the muscles in your forehead to stay relaxed, resulting in fewer wrinkles. BOTOX® Cosmetic and Dysport® can also smooth crow’s feet around your eyes and raise drooping eyebrows.
Injectable fillers like the JUVÉDERM® and Restylane® families of fillers, as well as BELOTERO BALANCE®, can also create balance and symmetry in your face when combined with a facelift. Fillers can address everything from hollowing at the temples and under the eyes, loss of volume in the cheeks, and smoothing wrinkles in the upper face and forehead. Filler can also plump your lips, which tend to lose volume and thin as you age.
Injectable treatments have a wide variety of formulations and uses, giving you an array of options for creating an overall more youthful facial contour.
Learn More About Facial Rejuvenation Procedures in Washington, D.C.
Whether you wish to explore surgical facelift options, non-surgical facial rejuvenation options, or a combination of procedures, the experts at DAVinci Plastic Surgery have the answer. To schedule a consultation to learn more about what type of treatment is right for you, call us today at (202) 966-9590 or complete the online contact form.
