Facial Feminization Surgery (FFS): Your face can be your ally

Although some FFS specialists prefer to perform face and neck lifts in another surgery some months later than the bony Facial Feminization, both kinds of procedures can be combined in just one surgical act with very good and especially natural results. When the face lift is performed in one surgery with the feminization of the facial skeleton, it must be understood as a complementary procedure that repositions the soft tissues in a way that brings out the feminization acquired on the facial bones (that would otherwise 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. In terms of rejuvenation it might result less perfect than when performed alone but, but the combination has a great benefit for the mature patients: it produces an immediate younger appearance that allows them to recover and enjoy in the right gender many years they spent living in the other one.
Something else to consider is that doing Facelift and Facial Feminization Surgery all together means an important saving in money, flights, time off and healing time, and the relieve of having to pass through the pain and inconveniences of the recovery just one time.

Some patients don’t need to undergo a full facial feminization surgery to obtain a satisfactory degree of feminization. In some cases, a surgery of just forehead and nose can be enough for them. This is because the relative importance of the forehead in the perception of the facial gender is much higher than the relative importance of the lower face, as the forehead affects something crucial: it affects the way the eyes look. It is amazing how something as abstract as the look of the eyes can be changed by reshaping hard bone. A male bone frame around the eyes gives the look the fierce, severe or even grim character of the predators, probably an heritage from the age when male were hunters and fighters and women stayed at home caring after the children. Feminization surgery of the forehead and nose gives the patient’s eyes the look of the female eyes. This look, so appreciated by romantic poets, is not female because of anything in the eyes themselves (which are the same flesh balls in both males and females), but because of the shape, thickness and especially the projection of the bones that surround them.