The face is the main characteristic of every person. It can reflect the inside to the outside.

But during the course of life, age leaves its marks in the face. Emotions, facial expressions, but also external factors such as environmental influences, UV-radiation or smoking can take its toll.

A wonderful method of removing the signs of ageing from the face, or, at least, of making them less severe, is the facelift (as a rule, this will include the neck). It will make sagging cheeks disappear, straighten up the chin-line and tauten up loose face and chin-skin. Wrinkles become smooth, the contours of the face come across as being much younger. This is achieved, above all, by raising the soft parts of the face underneath the skin and by tautening up the skin itself. If carried out the way it can be, a facelift should not be readily identifiable as such for the observer, even if the individual looks younger afterwards. On the contrary, it should create the impression that the individual has just returned from vacation, fresh and rested.

Facelift
Incisions usually begin above the hairline at the temples, extend in a natural line in front of the ear and continue behind the earlobe to the lower scalp. In general, the skin and fat is seperated from the muscles below. Afterwards the underlying layer of tissue, called the superficial musculo aponeurotic system (SMAS) is tightened, to create a natural and youthful undersurface of the face and to enable a long lasting result. Excess skin of the face and neck is removed. Stitches secure the layers of tissue and close the incisions. Small tubes will be temporarily placed under the skin behind both ears to drain blood and fluids. They will be removed the day after surgery. Liposuction and lipostructure (removal or injection of fat) are useful procedures in combination with a facelift that allow a precise modelling of facial contours.

There are many different ways of a facelift procedure. Which one is the right for you can only be decided after an examination in a personal consultation. Whatever procedure or technique is chosen to rejuvenate your face, it is important to maintain your individual facial features and not to create a „tight facelift- look“!