Face lift (Rhytidectomy): The perfect complement to Facial Feminization Surgery

• It brings out the effects of Facial Feminization surgery on chin and jaw by tightening the skin and lax muscles of the cheeks and jowls.
• It enhances the cheeks by "pleating" stretched muscle tissues over the cheekbones, beneath the tightened skin, which can help you not to need cheek implants during your Facial Feminization Surgery.
• It reduces the nasolabial folds when they are produced by saggy cheeks.
• The more advanced the aging process is at the time of the facelift, or the higher the amount of bone removed during the Facial Feminization Surgery was, the more impressive the rejuvenating effect will be.
• When it is done together with neck lift surgery, forehead or brow lift surgery and eyelid lift surgery (blepharoplasty), a complete facial rejuvenation is achieved.

• It is not a Facial Feminization Surgery by itself. It just brings out the facial bony outline you have. If your chin and jaw bones are male, you'd rather leave your saggy skin alone until you get a chin feminization, because tightening this skin with a facelift will bring out the maleness underneath. If your chin and jaw are naturally female or you underwent a Facial Feminization Surgery, then a Facelift will bring out the bones femaleness.
• The crow’s feet and wrinkles that appear around the eyes are a result of repeated muscular contraction and not of aging, so face-lift surgery will not improve them.
• It does not make any improvements on the forehead and eyebrows either. For that, forehead or brow lift surgery is necessary. The crow’s feet and wrinkles that appear around the eyes are a result of repeated muscular contraction and not of aging, so face-lift surgery will not improve them.
• It does not make any improvements on the forehead and eyebrows either. For that, forehead or brow lift surgery is necessary.

Many surgeons prefer to do the soft tissues procedures in a second surgery several months after the bony Facial Feminization. However, both procedures can be performed together in one surgical act with very good and especially natural results. When the face lift is performed along with the feminization of the facial skeleton, it might result less perfect than when performed alone but for the mature patients the combination has the additional benefit of producing an immediate younger appearance that allows them to recover and enjoy in the right gender many years they spent living in the other one. It must be understood as a complementary procedure that repositions the soft tissues in a way that brings out the feminization obtained on the facial bones (that otherwise would get concealed, not fully appreciable) and as a factor that sums up into the whole facial transformation rather than as a facelift per se, usually intended for just rejuvenation.
Convenience is important too: doing Facial Feminization Surgery and Facelift all together means an important saving for the patient in money, flights, time off and healing time, and the relieve of having to pass through the inconveniences and pain of the recovery just one time.