Weekend Facelift

Ageing makes you appear older than your age. With age, pollution and exposure to sun, the muscles of the face and neck become weak and start sagging downwards. The skin tends to loose its moisturizers with age and your face becomes more prone to creases, wrinkled skin, and loosening. So most of the people want to have a reasonable and less time consuming procedures and the Weekend Facelift is an answer. It is a modernized procedure performed by cosmetic surgeons to output results similar to the traditional facelift surgery. As the ageing shows up its signs in early 40’s, many people do not need a full facelift and the early sagging of upper neck and jowl area is corrected by the weekend facelift. The technique requires using an electrocardiogram, if you have crossed 40. So stop smoking and medications like aspirin or diet pills must be stopped at least 15 days prior to the surgery. The procedure is called a weekend face-lift or 48 hours face-lift as the patient can effortlessly recover from this procedure over the weekend and can resume their regular activities the next week. Though there are small sutures near the ear, they can be hidden with the hair. Moreover, the bruising is minimum and can be easily hidden.
The Weekend Facelift generally entails an incision in front of the ear and a minimal expansion at the back of the earlobe, which is around 1/3 of the length of the traditional incision. The incision is less deep in the facial and neck skin. The SMAS layer is then detected and sutured to get truly long lasting results. The complications are minimal and the procedure is far less invasive. The complaints of inflammation and yellowing are rare. The time required is about an hour and can be done under local anesthesia with sedation.
Another procedure, the 72-Hour Facelift is also used to produce considerable improvement. It amazingly treats mid face sagging and the recovery is speedy. If the patient fall in the age group of 40 – 50, the results are outstanding as the process starts in the mid face area and the 72 hour facelift can radically reduce their problems of drooping in the nose to lip folds and from the mouth to chin folds. Even in case of older patients (60-80) with previous facelifts, they find that the 72-Hour Facelift suits their requirements of facial innovation. The patients, who have lost their cheeks with aging and have been taking fat injections or have undergone cheek implants, can achieve improved results with less recovery with the 72-hour procedure. The 72-Hour or Long Weekend Facelift is performed by making needle mark insertion areas in the evident skin and small incisions of about 2cm in the hair of the temple. It is also called a closed technique. The method can easily correct the middle third of the face sag. Four suture loops--two on each side of the face--are placed through needle holes into the sagging cheek fat pads. These suture loops are sewed with a needle into the temple and attuned. After this, the sagging fat pad is raised upward, thus lifting the face with it. The cheek is re-established and the sagged folds are reduced with weekend facelift procedure.

Summary: Weekend facelift is a modernized procedure that is less costly, less time consuming and ensures a speedy recovery with results similar to the traditional facelift surgery.