Common Reasons for a Facelift
The Facelift. There are many different reasons someone may choose to undergo a facelift. Patients looking for this procedure may choose to do so for these common reasons:
- Aging: The most common reason for getting a facelift is to address the signs of aging. As people get older, the skin loses elasticity, resulting in wrinkles, fine lines, and soft tissue sagging. A facelift can help tighten the skin, remove excess fat and skin, and lift and reposition the underlying facial tissues, resulting in a more youthful appearance and restoring facial balance.
- Self-confidence: Some individuals may feel self-conscious or unhappy with the changes that occur in their face as they age. They may perceive their appearance as tired, worn, or less vibrant. A facelift can bring empowerment and help improve self-confidence by restoring a natural, aesthetically pleasing and youthful appearance. Our face is what the world sees first, let’s project our best self forward!
- Genetics: Some people may have genetically inherited facial features that theywish to change. For example, they may have a weak chin, prominent jowls, or heavy jowls that they find unappealing. A facelift can reshape and redefine these areas, enhancing facial balance and harmony.
- Weight loss: Significant weight loss can lead to excess skin and sagging in the face, particularly around the jowls and neck area. A facelift can help address these issues and restore a more contoured and defined appearance.
- Sun damage: Prolonged exposure to the sun’s harmful rays can accelerate the aging process, leading to premature wrinkles, sunspots, and sagging skin. A facelift can help reverse some of the sun damage and restore a more youthful and even complexion.
- Cancer : Skin cancer procedures such as MOHS surgeries and skin cancer excisional and reconstructive surgeries can cause unfavorable scarring and disharmony to one’s facial features. Facelift procedures, specially when combined with plasma skin resurfacing and fat grafting, can almost erase prior scars and restore facial harmony. Systemic cancer treatments and radiation can also cause facial volume atrophy. Facelift with fat grafting can restore the healthy and vibrant appearance of the face.
- Trauma: Traumatic experiences such as facial fracture injuries and reconstructive procedures to correct them can cause imbalance and disfigurement to the face. Facelifts combined with fat grafting can restore the symmetry that was offset by the injuries.
- Stress : Our stressful lives and harsh environments can adversely affect our immune system, which in turn decreases our bodies’ regenerative abilities and collagen and elastin production, making our skin and tissue have less elasticity. Facelift and fat grafting jump starts our skin and facial tissue to start repairing itself again. The fat grafting with platelet rich plasma restores the growth factors in the face needed to produce more collagen and elastin.
Dr. Lacerna’s state of the art facility in Sarasota & Bradenton is THE one stop center for facial and skin rejuvenation, and anti-aging. Our 9,000 SF brand new facility is the home of LA PLASTIC SURGERY, LA SKIN SPA, and ELITE AESTHETIC SURGERY CENTER. In addition, our sister practice ORCHID DERMATOLOGY is in the same location for all your medical and surgical dermatology needs.