Natural Facelift
Facial aging leads to loss of facial volume along with sagging of the skin and facial soft tissues. Over pulling of the skin or deep tissues during a face lift without adding volume to the deflated tissues often leads to an overly tight and unnatural appearance. The youthful face has the shape of an inverted triangle with fuller cheeks and less volume in the lower face. As we age the facial shape becomes more triangular with less volume in the cheek and more volume in the lower face and jowl region.
Dr. Leber replaces the lost upper facial volume with facial fat grafting. The lax and descended facial soft tissues are then elevated during his face lift procedure in an upward vertical direction (SMAS plication). This reduces the jowl and helps reestablish the inverted triangle of youth. Additionally, the corner of the mouth is slightly elevated reducing the unhappy “bitterness fold” from downward corner of the mouth appearance. Lastly, the skin is gently redraped in a posterior vector, avoiding the over pulled look, with special attention to closure and earlobe appearance along with careful realignment of the posterior hairline leads to a more youthful and refreshed appearance without many of the tell-tale signs of facelift surgery.*
*Tell tail signs of facelift surgery
