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Otros procedimientos faciales: Lifting facial
(Estiramiento facial, Ritidectomía, Ritidoplastia)

Face Lift Surgery (Rhytidectomy)

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Face-lift surgery gives your face an extra decade of youth for you to live it fully. It lifts the areas that gravity has pulled down, especially the cheeks. It is also a very good complement to facial feminization surgery for patients over 40, since it tightens the muscles and the skin, and adjusts them to the new bone structure of the face.
¿Qué resultados puedo esperar de un lifting facial?
  • It tightens the skin and lax muscles of the cheeks and cheekbones.
  • The more advanced the aging process is at the time of the surgery, the more impressive the rejuvenating effect will be. But some women choose this surgery while they are still in the prime of life to consolidate their youthful looks and to delay the effects that old age has on every face.
  • When it is done together with neck lift surgery, forehead lift surgery, brow lift surgery and eye lift surgery (blepharoplasty), it completely rejuvenates the face and neck.
¿Qué resultados NO puedo esperar de un lifting facial?
  • 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.
La cirugía
Anestesia
According to the complexity of your case, anesthesia may be local or general.

¿Cuánto dura la operación?
Between 2 and 3 hours.

 
¿Qué técnica se utiliza para un lifting facial?

The surgeon makes an incision very close to your ear, following its natural outline.
He separates the muscles and the skin of the middle area of your face, he tightens them and places them back to give your face a more youthful look. He cuts the excess skin and muscles and closes the incisions with stitches.
To rejuvenate lower areas of the face, such as the outline of the jaw, it is necessary to perform neck lift surgery.


Después de la cirugía
¿Cuál es el tiempo de internación?
If local anesthesia is used, no hospitalization will be necessary. If general anesthesia is used, you will need to stay hospitalized half a day.

¿Qué vendajes tendré? ¿Por cuánto tiempo?
You will leave the operating room with a compression bandage around your head. It will reduce the inflammation and will be removed about 24 hours later.

¿Será doloroso?
The pain will be moderate.

¿Cuándo se quitan los puntos?
Between one and two weeks after the surgery.

¿Se producen moretones e hinchazón?
Bruises may develop, especially below the eyes. They will be at their worst during the first week but, at time goes by, they will slowly disappear. The swelling lasts about a month. Cold compresses may help you recover faster. During some days, you will have to sleep with your head higher than the rest of your body.

¿Cómo se ocultan las cicatrices?
The area where the incisions are made tends to heal very well, so the scars will not be spotted easily once they are fully healed.
Recuperación

You will have to rest at the hotel for 48 hours, and be careful not to move your head too abruptly. At first, you may feel your cheeks numb. You may be able to go back to work, and to have fun as you used to, 10 days after the surgery.
During this time, some people may feel quite depressed. It is quite normal to feel this way after any kind of surgery, no matter how simple it may be. You may even come to think that you made a big mistake. But do not worry. Most of the people who are happy today and who are satisfied with the results obtained, have also felt somewhat depressed.


Finalmente el resultado...

Face-lift surgery will make you look several years younger than you really are. The difference between your real age and your looks will last your whole life; that is, as you grow older you will still look much younger than you really are. Moreover, if you have already had a facial feminization surgery, a face-lift will adjust the soft areas of your face to your new bone structure and the female outline of your face will be more clearly defined.


¿Qué riesgos y complicaciones puede haber?

Every surgery, no matter how simple it may be, has certain risks, and we should not rule them out. However, it is very unlikely for face-lift surgery to present any complications when performed by a qualified surgeon.

  • Infections may develop but, if you take the right antibiotics, they will be less likely to develop.
  • Adverse reactions to anesthesia.
  • Hypertrophic scars or keloids (excessive scar tissue due to genetic traits of certain skin types).
  • Bruises.
  • Seromas, or fluid accumulation beneath the skin, may develop. In some cases, they have to be drained with a syringe.

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