A Natural-looking facelift is not the exception any longer. The days when facelifts made people look as if they were walking through a wind tunnel are fortunately over. Today, Dr. Denton can perform a natural-looking facelift procedure that will leave your skin looking rejuvenated and healthy without distorting your facial appearance. The advanced facelift procedures performed by experienced and skilled facial plastic surgeons are SMAS facelifts (deep-plane facelifts). This modern facelift technique not only addresses the skin, but also deals with structures beneath the skin like muscle and fat deposits. Consequently, the results are longer-lasting and provide you with a far more natural facial rejuvenation.
How to Achieve a Natural-Looking Facelift
Choose Your Facial Plastic Surgeon Carefully
Begin by doing some research on the facial plastic surgeon you’d like to perform your facelift. Your main focus should be qualifications and experience, not who’s the most affordable. You should consult with surgeons like Dr. Andrew Denton, a leading board-certified Facial Plastic Surgeon, with over twenty years of experience, a sense of aesthetics, and extensive training.
You should invest some time consulting with top facial plastic surgeons in your area, look at their work (before and after photos) and read patient reviews. Also, if possible, ask friends and family for recommendations.
You should choose a surgeon whom you feel comfortable with and confident about his or her skills to achieve the results you are expecting. The ideal surgeon shouldn’t rush you in making any decisions and should take the time to explain the procedure and what’s to be expected in detail. For example, Dr. Denton believes that every patient is an equal member of the decision-making team since informed patients make good decisions. He also encourages unhurried discussion between the patient, the other team members, and himself. He utilizes computer imaging that allows proposed changes to be visualized and their effect on overall facial balance to be evaluated by his patients before the actual procedure.
Consider Additional Procedures
Even if your surgical facelift procedure has the desired outcome, if the skin of your neck area is loose and your front neck muscles begin to separate causing the characteristic bands then your facelift will look unnatural. This is because your neck will not match the youthful and rejuvenated appearance of your face. Therefore, it is recommended that you consult with your facial plastic surgeon about additional procedures that will enhance and complement your facelift.
In addition to a neck lift, you may also consider an eyelid lift or a brow lift. These procedures are also a great way to rejuvenate the whole face and make you look years younger. Having multiple procedures does not only mean that your facial rejuvenation will be more natural-looking but that you will also save on recovery time, the expense, and the inconvenience of having separate multiple surgical procedures.
Adhere to Pre and Post-Operative Instructions
In order to achieve natural-looking results, you must also prepare properly for your surgical facelift and follow their surgeon’s post-operative instructions. For example, smokers must stop smoking at least two weeks before their procedure and for two weeks after it. Also, individuals who take blood-thinning medications and supplements (e.g. aspirin, ibuprofen, ginko, ginseng, and vitamin E) must stop taking them two weeks prior to their procedure to avoid the risk of excess bleeding during and after surgery.
It is also important that you take about two weeks off your normal activities, including going to work, to allow for proper healing. Additionally, bending, heavy lifting, and straining are prohibited during the first two weeks. Light non-cardiac exercise can be resumed two weeks following surgery and slowly increased over the ensuing seven days.
Take Proper Care of Your Skin
What’s more, in order to maintain the results of your facelift procedure for as long as possible, you need to take proper care of your skin. Your skin care routine should include a healthy diet, regular exercise, and protection from the sun by using premium superscreens like Total Defense + Repair Broad Spectrum Spf 34 / PA++++ Sunscreen. There are also many high-quality skin care products that can be used after your procedure, like TNS Ceramide Treatment Cream™, or Retinol Complex 0.25 that can help prolong your rejuvenated appearance.
Schedule Your Consultation with Dr. Denton
With over two decades of experience, Dr. Denton can advise you regarding your facelift or any other facial rejuvenation procedure you may be considering. He performs cosmetic surgical procedures, including facelifts, eyelid lifts, and brow lifts, at his private and fully accredited state-of-the-art surgical facility in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Schedule your consultation today and find out how Dr. Denton can help you achieve the result that will make you feel more confident about your appearance.