When it is convenient to realize face lifting process?
Natural aging process causes for few or apparent wrinkles to appear on your face and on your neck which can have dramatic impact on your appearance. Elasticity of skin is lost and muscles of lower skin tissue get loosened. It gives the impression that there is too much skin falling down due to the gravity.
Through face lifting, you can significantly eliminate these signs of time. You can have a younger and brighter look and you can feel yourself much younger. Age when you will have a face lifting or the lines which you would like to be removed will be decided as depending on your individual requests.
What is done during the operation ?
Typical face lifting is not present. It always depends on which changes you personally wish to be made. By tightening the forehead, brows are lifted up and wrinkles are corrected. Lifting as per time, causes for eye area to be tightened too.
Cheek lifting does not only eliminate the wrinkles at this region but it also brings back the fat tissue that has slipped to the back of cheekbone.
When neck is tightened, the excess fats can be extracted from another small cut below the chin. Mini face lifting is usually realized at temporal region and it is only useful if important changes will not be removed.
Normally, temples, cheeks and neck are tightened and additional sliding of muscles is realized.
Lifting of one or more facial regions can be completed with other methods such as eyelid operation. Nowadays, it is a widely used application to treat the thin wrinkles around the mouth and eyelids with a laser peeling.
Before face lifting, you should get consultancy from your surgeon. This enables for you to get detailed information about different methods and to determine the how the best results can be obtained, with your surgeon.
Which outcomes can be achieved?
With face lifting, skin gets tightened and your appearance looks younger. Natural aging process of the skin can not be stopped by face lifting. However, signs of aging can be repelled for 10-15 years. The duration of face lifting depends on personal equipment and the situation of tissue. Generally repeating the operation after 8-10 years does not create any problems.
To be able to preserve the natural facial expression, after the intervention some wrinkles will be remaining If all the wrinkles are corrected in an extreme way, you would have a mask-like appearance. Here, expertise and skills of surgeon are very important for the success of operation.
What is anesthesia type and way of staying at the clinic?
Intervention is generally done during outpatient treatment under general anesthesia.
How will I prepare myself for the operation?
If you are a smoker, you will have to quit smoking at least 4 weeks before your appointment in order to avoid necrosis risk near the scar. During 14 days before the surgery, you should avoid using pain killing drugs.
For example, you shouldn’t use aspirin as it delays blood clotting. You should avoid taking alcohol or sleeping pills as much as possible. If you keep your hair short, in order to hide your scars better at the beginning, you can keep your hair a little longer.
How does the operation take place?
Under the impact of narcosis, surgeon adjusts the cutting places just as you had previously specified with him. Before the intervention, it is not required to shave the hair.
Normal cutting process lies along the hair on temples being nearly 5 cm away from hair line as passing from the front of ear and ending at the back of ear on the neck.
In lifting of forehead, cutting place lies from hair separation line and one ear to the other. Along the cutting section, skin oscillates from the underlying tissue and binding tissue under the skin, relaxed facial expression and small embedded fatty layers can be corrected.
Thin threads fix muscles to their original place besides binding tissue. Majority of corrections especially on forehead, cheek region and eye region are realized endoscopically nowadays. This method enables for the cuts to be much smaller.
After the scar edges are closed with threads that can be untied, intracutaneous sutures are made. Generally, depending on its content operation takes about 3 to 5 hours. During this period, surgeon must realize delicate labor work just like a sculptor. His expertise, skills and aesthetic feeling determines the outcome of facial lifting.
What happens after the operation?
After the operation, your skin get tightened and it swells. Besides the bruises around the cheeks and under the chin, it is completely normal to feel paraesthesia on the whole facial area. The biggest swelling occurs 1-2 days after the intervention and it causes for your facial appearance to change temporarily. Swelling will get reduced within the following 2 or 3 weeks again. Besides, you shouldn’t worry if you feel pain at the back of your ear. These occur due to the tension being fixed to the skin.
Final outcome can be evaluated within a few months depending on the scope of intervention.
Regarding which risks should we be careful ?
If you have allergies for example to drugs or care products or if you have other diseases, you should inform us about them. If you have visible purple spots or if bleeding continues after small injuries, before surgical operation, clotting problem should be eliminated by means of appropriate examination. Besides as it may have impact on the outcome, you should tell your surgeon if you plan to loss too many kilos.
What kind of complications can arise?
After a big face lifting or lifting or forehead, feeling on the skin that is at the front of ears or on the forehead can be disrupted in the long term. Any purple spots that can appear after the surgery can cause for the recovery period to be considerably delayed and this situation can be overcome by a small surgical intervention.
Due to strong tightness of facial skin, sometimes hair loss can be seen at the temples. However, the lost hair will grow again within a few months.
Circulation disorders of skin arising due to consumption of extreme nicotine can cause for necrosis to occur near the scar area and for visible scar traces to appear. It can be needed to recover them.
If bacterial infections appear, delaying secondary recovery of scar may cause for wider traces to occur. These can be corrected with other small interventions.
Damages in facial nerves which have been excluded by specialized hands, generally occur within 3-6 months time again. Sometimes skin lesions and muscle nerves can occur but these are corrected automatically within weeks or months.
Permanent disruption of facial muscles due to nerve injuries is a rarely observed complication.
What are the particulars to pay attention to after the intervention ?
Period required for complete renewal can vary depending on individual tendencies and the scope of intervention. After the surgery you should get resting for 5-7 days. During this period, you shouldn’t put cream or ointment on your face. Your skin will recover much better on its own. After 8 days, you can get shower and do make-up as usual.
Within first four weeks, you should avoid taking nicotine or pain killer such as aspirin. During four weeks long, it should be avoided to be directly subject to sunlight. In the following weeks, if you will be subject to sun, it is recommended that you use a sun protection product with high protection factor against sunlight. In most cases, you can start dealing with your sports activities after 4 weeks time.