With age, the skin loses its elasticity and starts to sag, wrinkle, and lose volume. This can make you look older than you are.
The natural aging process doesn’t have to take a toll on your face so rapidly. With a facelift, you can eliminate drooping skin, jowls, creases, wrinkles, and other undesirable signs of aging.
Keep reading to learn more about how to look and feel younger with a facelift at Moy Fincher Chipps Facial Plastics & Dermatology, A Golden State Dermatology Affiliate.
What Is a Facelift?
A facelift, also called a rhytidectomy, is a cosmetic procedure that addresses advanced signs of aging and restores a more youthful appearance. The procedure involves removing excess skin, tightening muscles, and repositioning underlying facial tissues.
With a facelift, patients can reverse visible signs of aging, such as:
- Sagging skin
- Double chin
- Drooping jowls
- Nasolabial folds
- Marionette lines
- Loss of facial volume
- Weakened facial contours
- Wrinkles, lines, and creases
How Can a Facelift in Beverly Hills Make You Feel and Look Younger?
A facelift at Moy Fincher Chipps can help you feel and look years younger even sooner, than traditional techniques could provide. With our noninvasive techniques, our patients experience fewer incisions, and a quicker recovery.
Eliminate Sagging Skin
With age, skin starts to lose its elasticity and firmness as collagen and elastin production slows, leading to sagging skin. Additionally, facial muscles can lose their tone, creating pockets of sagging skin around the face.
As the signs of aging become more apparent, you may feel less vibrant and confident. But getting a facelift can help you feel better by renewing your face and confidence from the inside out.
It repairs drooping skin by trimming and tightening it. The procedure also tightens deep facial muscles, increasing support.
Fatty tissue may be removed and repositioned during a facelift. By tightening loose muscles and eliminating excess sagging skin and fatty tissue, a facelift can shave years off your face, revealing a younger, more refreshed, and confident version of yourself. Edgar Fincher, MD states, “Facelifts remain one of the most effective ways to address significant facial aging and sagging. When performed with skill and an artistic eye, a facelift can provide natural-looking rejuvenation that turns back the clock without altering a patient’s fundamental appearance.”
Smooth Out Lines, Creases, and Wrinkles
Over time, your skin can become less elastic, causing lines, wrinkles, and creases to develop. The combination of creases, lines, and wrinkles can make you seem much older.
For many people, these unwanted visible signs of aging can negatively affect their self-esteem. Although minimally invasive treatments such as fillers may be helpful, the results are usually temporary and limited in what they can achieve.
However, a facelift can remove excess skin and carefully reposition underlying tissues, smoothing moderate to deep creases, facial lines, and wrinkles. Its effects are long-lasting, allowing you to enjoy years of your refreshed, youthful appearance.
When your complexion matches how young you feel inside, it naturally boosts your confidence.
Restore Lost Volume
As collagen breaks down due to the natural aging process, you may experience a gradual decrease in facial volume because of diminished tissue hydration. Reduced tissue hydration can lead to a thin, hollow appearance.
Like collagen loss, fat loss can also occur due to aging. Your face naturally loses fat as you age. The loss of volume can make the face appear weak and gaunt.
A facelift effectively addresses the loss of volume in your face by redistributing existing fat pads within the face and lifting facial muscles. By strategically repositioning these fat pads to areas that have lost volume and lifting muscles, a facelift can make your face look plumper, healthier, and more youthful again.
Remove Jowls
Gravity, weakening of skin fibers, and a decline in collagen production can lead to developing jowls. Jowls are characterized by sagging skin and drooping fat pads along the lower jawline.
They can vary in appearance and severity, making your face appear less defined and older. Facelifts are a highly effective procedure for patients concerned about sagging jowls.
Unlike other less invasive methods, a facelift addresses the underlying cause of jowls. During a facelift, the muscles are tightened, reversing the loosening effects that form jowls.
The skin is also re-draped more tightly, trimming excess skin and tightening the underlying tissues. These adjustments eliminate jowls, leave skin firm and taut, and create a sculpted, more defined jawline. Dr. Fincher explains, “A well-executed facelift is particularly effective at addressing jowls, which are one of the most noticeable signs of facial aging. By carefully lifting and repositioning the underlying facial tissues, we can eliminate jowls and restore a more youthful, defined jawline.”
Erase Nasolabial Folds
Nasolabial folds are the creases or lines in the skin that extend from the side of the nose and run down to the corners of the mouth. Repeated facial movements are the most common cause of nasolabial folds.
Whenever you laugh, smile, or frown, a minor groove develops below the skin’s surface. With time, the groove deepens and becomes more prominent.
Other causes of nasolabial folds include loss of collagen and elastin, smoking tobacco, sun damage, and genetics. Nasolabial folds can be visible even when someone isn’t smiling or laughing. However, they’re most noticeable when you laugh or smile.
Deep nasolabial folds can make you look tired, unhappy, and older, even when you’re not. A facelift can help you get rid of nasolabial folds. During the cosmetic procedure, drooping skin on the cheeks is pulled upwards, decreasing the appearance of nasolabial folds.
Turn Back the Clock with a Facelift
A facelift at Moy-Fincher-Chipps is very safe and can have an easier recovery with our techniques. “You do not need general anesthesia for a facelift. This makes it safer and an easier recovery for many patients,” says Ron Moy, MD. “We can do IV sedation or medications such as Xanax and Demerol where patients are very comfortable and feel nothing. We use tumescent anesthesia which is dilute lidocaine and allows us to make our procedures safe and comfortable as well.”
If you are wondering just what recovery will look like, Dr. Ron Moy explains, “Usually recovery time is about 10-14 days for most people and recovery is pretty simple. The biggest restrictions are no heavy lifting, vigorous exercise, or yoga. You can do light walking. Sleep is very important for healing so we always like to communicate with our patients to make sure they’re getting good sleep.”
A facelift can reverse unwanted signs of aging. Our experienced cosmetic surgeons will masterfully tailor your facelift procedure to restore your natural, vibrant, and rejuvenated appearance.
Are you interested in a facelift? Request your appointment today at Moy-Fincher-Chipps in Beverly Hills, CA, to find out if a facelift can help you achieve your aesthetic goals.
