You’re ready to do it: Build your Aesthetic Confidence® by contouring your neck and jawline to look more defined and attractive. But as you look into the procedures that could give you the strong, new profile you desire, you wonder whether submental liposuction is the way to go, or if you’d do better with a neck lift.

Dr. Philip Miller in New York City is a double-board certified facial plastic surgeon who was raised by an artist, so he not only has expert surgical skills but also a highly developed sense of aesthetics, proportions, and balance. He’s an expert in using the Golden Ratio, which refers to the ideal proportion of the nose and mouth along with the distance between the eyes and chin. Dr. Miller uses this guide to create symmetry and beauty in your facial features, while also harmonizing with your ethnicity and gender. 

When you meet with him for a one-on-one consultation, he takes the time to evaluate your skin tone, bone structure, and fat-concentrated areas to determine the right procedure or combination of procedures to make you look like the absolute best and most confident version of yourself.

If you’re wondering whether submental liposuction or a neck lift is the right choice for you, ask yourself the following questions:

Submental Liposuction Candidate

If you have submental fat (fat underneath your chin, otherwise known as a double chin), but your skin is smooth, resilient, and snaps back into place immediately after you pinch or stretch it, then submental liposuction may be enough to give you a stronger, more attractive jawline and profile.  

Today’s tumescent liposuction procedures are highly refined and can be performed under local anesthesia at the Gotham Plastic Surgery office. Dr. Miller only needs to make two small incisions underneath your chin or behind your ears. 

By first injecting the treatment area with a special solution, Dr. Miller breaks up the fat cells so that they can easily be aspirated with small metal tubes called cannulas. The thinness of the cannulas allows him to sculpt away tiny packets of fat that mar your chin and jawline to create smooth, uniform, and finely-detailed results.

Since liposuction is a surgical procedure, you should arrange to take a week off from work. You also need to wear a chin strap for a few days to control bruising and swelling. You should be able to return to most of your normal activities within two weeks.

Neck Lift Candidate

One of the most frustrating signs of aging is a drooping, sagging neck, sometimes called a “turkey neck.” Your neck is often the first place where your age becomes apparent because neck skin is thin and poorly attached to the underlying muscle. If the skin underneath your chin and on your neck is wrinkled, crepey, or saggy, the best procedure for you is a surgical neck lift. Neck lifts are one of the top 5 cosmetic surgery procedures performed in the United States.

When Dr. Miller performs a neck lift, he does more than just tighten the skin underneath your chin and around your neck. He also improves jowling, in order to create a more youthful facial shape. Unlike less skilled surgeons who advertise a “skin-only” lift, Dr. Miller always tightens and lifts the underlying neck muscles to give tighter neck skin extra support. After tightening and lifting your neck skin, he trims away any redundant skin, leaving you with a smooth and youthful-looking neck and jawline.

A neck lift is the most dramatic, satisfying, and long-lasting remedy for loose, wrinkled, or drooping neck skin. Dr. Miller hides the scars from your lift behind your ears. You need to arrange for about a two-week recovery period. You’ll wear bandages to control bruising and swelling, and may need surgical drains as well.

As your neck lift heals over the weeks to months after your surgery, your jawline, chin, and neck area look tighter, fresher, and more youthful. After about six months, you’ll notice that your neck lift took about 10 years off of your appearance, and it should keep you looking young for another 10 years. You can enhance the length of your neck lift with regular procedures that help your skin produce new rejuvenating collagen, such as laser skin revitalization.

When You Need a Neck Lift with Submental Liposuction

If you’re unhappy with your profile and you have already begun to age, chances are you have both excess submental fat and loose inelastic skin. To completely re-contour your chin, jaw, and neck, you’d benefit most from combining submental liposuction with a neck lift. Dr. Miller performs both surgeries during one procedure to minimize your expense and recovery time. 

Treating a Recessed Chin

Even if you sculpt away excess fat and tighten up wrinkled skin, if the point of your chin lies behind the line of your lips, you may benefit from a chin implant. A custom-fitted silicone implant lines your chin up with your lips to impart strength and confidence into your profile. You can have an implant as a stand-alone procedure or as part of submental liposuction with or without a neck lift. Dr. Miller can help you decide if a chin implant is right for you.

Creating a Movie Star Jawline

If you’re a man who’s looking for a jaw and profile that’s as chiseled as an A-list movie star’s, you may be a candidate for Dr. Miller’s G.I. Jaw™ technique. Based on your needs, he selects from a series of procedures, such as chin liposuction, jaw and chin implants, or dermal fillers, to create a strong and masculine look to your lower face and profile.

Schedule a Consultation Today

Before you settle on which procedure you want, you have a more important decision to make: choosing your surgeon. Be sure to interview the most highly skilled surgeons in your area or consider traveling to get the best, longest-lasting, most natural-looking results. To schedule a consultation with Dr. Miller in New York City, call our office today, or use our online contact form.

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Historically, men’s concerns about their appearance have been focused on building up muscles to create a more masculine and powerful physique. Remember those comic-book and wrestling-magazine ads that made you feel insecure about being a “98-lb. weakling,” even though you were only 12?

But these days, the ubiquity of social media demands that men of all ages look selfie-ready at a moment’s notice. And the “gig” economy, which puts you in the financial ring with ever-younger competitors of both sexes — has made looking energetic, strong, and youthful more important than ever.

Most plastic surgeons see only a small fraction of male patients so have very little experience with men and their unique needs. Luckily, Dr. Miller and Gotham Plastic Surgery are unique because almost half of their patients are male.

Dr. Philip Miller, a groundbreaking, double-board certified facial plastic surgeon in New York City, knows what kinds of aesthetic improvements look natural and empowering to the male face. As the developer of unique, trademarked procedures such as NatraLook™ facelifts and G.I. Jaw™ chin and jaw enhancement for men, Dr. Miller is committed to making you feel like the absolute best version of yourself so you can achieve Aesthetic Confidence™.

Male Facial Aesthetics

No matter how successful and healthy you are, you can’t stop the inevitable march of time. A whole-foods diet, sun avoidance, and plenty of cell-enriching and muscle-building exercise can do wonders to keep you in optimal shape. Nevertheless, the passing years take their toll on your face, with signs of aging such as:

• Jowling
• Sagging skin
• Hooded eyelids
• Under-eye bags
• Double chin
• Soft neckline
• Sunspots
• Uneven skin tone

When you’re bothered by facial aging, Dr. Miller spends time listening to your concerns, evaluating your particular facial structure, and designing a customized aesthetic improvement plan. Depending on how early you are in the aging cycle, he may be able to create all the improvements you need without a single incision or stitch.

What’s more, Dr. Miller understands the unique concerns men have about altering their appearance. Dr. Miller is an expert in men’s facial anatomy and can enhance their appearance while maintaining their masculinity.

Nonsurgical revitalization procedures include:

• Botox® to smooth out dynamic wrinkles
• Laser resurfacing to even out skin tone
• Laser treatments to increase skin health
• Dermal fillers (Juvèderm®, Restylane®) to fill in creases, under-eye trough, and non-surgical rhinoplasty
• Fat grafting and fillers (Voluma®) to restore lost facial volume

Dr. Miller is also an expert at creating natural-looking rejuvenations via facial surgery or minimally invasive procedures, including:

• Brow lift — surgically smoothing and lifting the forehead for a more youthful look
• Upper blepharoplasty — eyelid surgery to resolve upper-eyelid hooding
• Lower blepharoplasty — lower-lid surgery to remove fat pockets and resolve under-eye tear troughs
• Chin liposuction — removes a double chin
• Mini lift — resolves jowling and sagging of lower face
• Facelift — resolves jowling and sagging of both midface and lower face
• Fat grafting — your own excess fat is used to restore lost facial volume in midface, tear troughs, or temples
• Neck lift — underlying plastysmal muscles (also known as neck bands, these are the vertical muscles that are evident when you make a grimace, clench your teeth, or carry stress in your neck region) tightened, double chin removed via liposuction, skin lifted, tightened, and trimmed
• FaceTite™ — radiofrequency assisted liposuction (RFAL) to tighten loose skin and contour the lower face and neck
• excel V+ — laser treatment to improve fine lines and wrinkles as well as hyperpigmentation

You don’t have to decide ahead of time which procedure is best for you. During your consultation, Dr. Miller makes his recommendations based on your anatomy, skin quality, and signs of aging. Together, you will create a Unified Vision decide which procedures best meet your goals.

Get “chiseled” via Jawline Augmentation

One of the most-desired masculine facial features is a strongly chiseled jaw and neckline. Dr. Miller invented the G.I. Jaw™ procedure to give you a more powerful lower face, complete with square chin, a sharp jawbone, and well-defined neck. A strong jawline in men is so strongly associated with attractiveness and success that men account for more than half (54%)of the surgical jaw augmentations performed in the U.S., according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Dr. Miller custom designs the G.I. Jaw™ procedure based on the proportions of your upper face, lower face, nose, chin, neck, and jawline, as well as your degree of facial sagging and fat distribution. Depending on your needs, he may recommend:

• Rhinoplasty to better balance your chin and jaw
• Medical-grade chin implant to create a more projected, stronger chin
• Medical-grade jaw implant to strengthen and sharpen jawline
• Medical-grade cheek implants for lift and contouring
• Liposuction to remove double chin and strengthen jawline
• Nonsurgical augmentations with dermal fillers
• Nonsurgical Kybella® to permanently melt away double chin

If you choose to go the nonsurgical route, Dr. Miller lets you know how frequently you’ll need touch-ups, based on the type of dermal filler used. If you’re considering jaw or chin implants, but aren’t yet sure, a nonsurgical augmentation with dermal fillers is a great way to “audition” a new look.

Schedule Your Consultation Today

Wanting to look our absolute best is a common goal. Dr. Miller is your partner in achieving your aesthetic goals using a customized approach with the right treatments to suit your needs and lifestyle. To set up an appointment and find out how Dr. Miller can enhance your appearance, call (646) 791-3025 or use the online form to book your consultation.

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You’ve always prided yourself on being informed and getting the most value for your hard-earned dollars. So, when you notice a few wrinkles on your forehead, at the corners of your eyes, or realize your skin doesn’t look quite as brilliant and glowing as it used to, you’re not going to head to the store and pick up the latest “wrinkle cream.” You know that lotions and potions can only go so far. You want cosmetic options that produce real results.

Dr. Philip J. Miller, an expert facial plastic surgeon in New York City believes that any cosmetic product or procedure — whether surgical or non-surgical — should result in what he coins, “Aesthetic Confidence®”. Aesthetic Confidence comes from knowing that everything you do for yourself enhances your own unique natural beauty, making you look like the absolute best and healthiest version of yourself.

Prejuvenation is Prevention

“Prejuvenation” is one of the hottest trends in aesthetics, and continues to grow. “Prejuvenation” means keeping your skin young and lustrous looking by enacting effective, science-based prevention strategies to stop wrinkles from forming in the first place. It erases signs of sun damage and improves the overall quality of your skin. According to an article in New Beauty, millennials are starting on prejuvenation by age 26, compared to women aged 55 and older, who didn’t start addressing signs of aging until they were about 47.

Treating the First Signs of Aging

You know that glowing skin starts with strong, healthy skin cells. That’s why you eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, proteins, and healthy fats. And why you exercise regularly and keep well hydrated. It’s also why you don’t leave the house without liberally applying a high-quality sunscreen with an SPF 30 or more.

Despite these healthy steps, the first wrinkles to appear tend to be the ones that are caused by the dynamic muscles that let you raise your brows, squint your eyes, and make other extreme expressions. The best way to stop those wrinkles from forming in the first place, or to prevent them from worsening, is with regular treatments with Botox® Cosmetic or another effective neuromodulator, such as Dysport® or Xeomin®.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, use of Botox and other neuromodulators has surged by 819% since the year 2000, with more than 7,000,000 treatments in the U.S. in 2017 alone. Botox stops the signals that trigger your muscles to move and press your skin into creases and wrinkles. Within a few days to two weeks after treatment, your muscles relax and your skin smooths out so that it’s wrinkle-free again. Not only that, but by treating them early, you help prevent them from worsening and new wrinkles from forming.

Treating the Secondary Signs of Aging

By the time you get into your thirties, you may notice that your skin isn’t as plump and luscious as it used to be, and neither are your lips. Every year, your body produces less of your skin’s building blocks, the proteins collagen and elastin. After age 40, too, you begin to lose about a teaspoon of fat per year in your face. Your skin also has less hyaluronic acid (HA), the lubricating agent that helps retain moisture, keeping your skin supple.

Prejuvenation isn’t just about knocking out wrinkles. It’s about restoring volume loss quickly and effectively using state-of-the-art dermal fillers made with HA, such as Juvèderm® and Restylane® and collagen stimulators such as Radiesse®. Dermal fillers come in a variety of thicknesses and consistencies to restore volume to your midface, smooth out creases around your mouth and nose, fill in tear troughs, restore your hands, and create nonsurgical lip augmentations.

Get a Jumpstart on Aging Gracefully

Prejuvenation also restores your skin’s strength, elasticity, and plumpness with fresh new collagen, elastin, and HA. Dr. Miller offers a variety of therapies, such as acne scar treatment, to stimulate your skin to turn over skin cells faster and build up new stores of collagen and elastin. Depending on your needs, he may recommend:

• CO2 laser resurfacing
• MicroPen microneedling
• Monthly chemical peels

Aging gracefully needs a pro-active beauty regimen. Dr. Miller can help create a comprehensive routine that helps you maintain your health and radiance. To schedule an aesthetics appointment with Dr. Miller, call (646) 791-3025 or use the online form.

You look at your face in the mirror and you notice that something is lacking. Whether you’ve lost volume to aging, or just never had it due to your bone structure, you don’t have to be content with flat, hollow, or receding contours anymore. Whether you want to permanently alter the planes and curves of your face with implants, or “audition” a new look with temporary dermal fillers, Dr. Philip Miller, expert New York City facial plastic surgeon, can help you re-shape your jawline, cheekbones, and chin to get the beautiful, harmonious look and Aesthetic Confidence™ you’ve always dreamed of having.

Restore Lost Facial Volume

Aging and sun damage deplete key elements in your face that may result in a look that’s drawn and gaunt. Collagen and elastin — building blocks of skin that keep it plump, pliable, and elastic — diminish with age. The fat that once made your cheeks lovely and pinchable dissipates, too. Even your underlying bone structure atrophies over the years, so that your face no longer has the support it enjoyed in your youth.

In the early stages of aging, this process of volume loss can be reversed with treatments that stimulate your skin to produce more collagen and elastin, such as laser therapy and microneedling. However, if you’ve already lost volume, Dr. Miller can plump up your midface and build up sagging cheekbones with a lush filler such as Voluma®, which is made of hyaluronic acid (HA) — a substance that your body produces naturally. Dermal fillers are so effective for improving facial volume, they are the second most popular non-invasive cosmetic procedure performed each year.

But if you’re looking for a permanent option to restore lost facial volume, Dr. Miller can use fat from other areas of your body where you don’t need it (such as lower abdomen), and transfer it to your cheeks, where it helps restore the volume of the mid-face.

Create Model Cheekbones

You may have noticed that most celebrities and models have well-defined cheekbones. Cheekbones not only create an elegant, sophisticated look, but they also provide a natural lift to your lower face. Whether your cheekbones have receded over the years due to bone loss, or you’ve always been frustrated with flat cheekbones, Dr. Miller can reshape and contour your cheekbones with either high-quality implants or dermal fillers such as Voluma or Sculptra­®.

Building up your cheekbones with Sculptra, Voluma, or layering both is a great way to try out a new look. Sculptra adds volume by stimulating the production of new collagen and elastin over time. Voluma does the same by instantly plumping up and re-contouring your skin. Layering both dermal fillers gives you volume that’s both instant and long-lasting — up to a year or more.

Of course, the most dramatic way to re-sculpt your cheekbones is with permanent silicone implants. Dr. Miller chooses the size, shape, and angle that perfectly matches your unique beauty and facial structure. If you’d also like to compensate for lost skin volume, Dr. Miller can infuse your skin with Voluma at the same time you receive your cheek implants for complete facial rejuvenation.

Transform with a G.I. Jaw®

Both men and women often long for the straight, clean jawline of a G.I. Joe or supermodel. Now you don’t have to be born with great bones to benefit from their effects. If your chin is receded or your jawline weak, Dr. Miller can resculpt your jaw and create a stronger chin with Sculptra and Voluma, or with permanent silicone implants. He may also suggest liposuction or Kybella® to remove excess fat and tighten the jawline skin.

Revive Your Facial Volume Today

Replenishing your skin and creating stronger, more lifted contours with either dermal fillers or facial implants is a great way to start the new year with a new you. Dr. Miller can even give you a preview of your new look via digital morphing. To set up an appointment and find out how fillers and implants can create the look of your dreams, call (646) 791-3025 or use the online form to book your consultation.

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You’re considering a facelift but you’re wondering if it’s really worth the expense and downtime. If you’re listing the pros and cons while trying to come to a decision, a study from the Journal of the American Medicine Association (JAMA) Facial Plastic Surgery, supplies a number of new entries for your “pro” column. As it turns out, women who’ve had facelifts and other upper-face rejuvenation procedures aren’t just perceived as looking younger, but also as being more attractive, healthier, and more successful.

Dr. Phillip J. Miller, an expert facial plastic surgeon in New York City, has long promoted facelifts as one way to attain what he calls “Aesthetic Confidence®.” Dr. Miller’s patients relay that his surgeries do not just improve their appearance, but they have other life-changing benefits.

Some of these benefits include feeling happier and more confident after their surgery, and also that people react more positively to them than they did before. The following study, “Association Between Facial Rejuvenation and Observer Ratings of Youth, Attractiveness, Success, and Health” confirms his patients’ perceptions. Let’s explore each benefit so you can fully understand how, in the right hands,  life-changing a facelift can be.

Before and After 

The study included before-and-after photographs of twelve older women who’d either had eyelid surgery and a facelift, or eyelid surgery, a facelift, and a brow lift. Each of the 504 participants who looked at these photos in an online survey either saw the “before” or the “after” photograph from each of the twelve patients, but never saw both views.  

When the researchers looked at how the observers rated all of the photos, they found that…

The “Afters” Looked Younger

On average, women were estimated  4 to 5 years younger in their “after” shots than they were in their “before” shots.

Technique plays an important role in creating this youthful result. When performing a facelift, Dr. Miller always lifts the underlying SMAS (submucosal aponeurotic system) layer, along with the skin. Lifting the SMAS both vertically and horizontally creates a more youthful, uplifted face that appears much more natural than when lifting skin alone. The re-positioned SMAS also provides better support for your skin, allowing your facelift to last longer.

The “Afters” Were More Attractive

On a scale of 1 to 100, the “before” photos were rated “50” on attractiveness. The “after” photos jumped up to 68.

Another technique that Dr. Miller utilizes to restore a youthful visage is fat grafting. Dr. Miller often recommends fat grafting in combination with a facelift to get the best outcome for facial rejuvenation. The fat grafts fill in areas of lost volume on your face by using fat you’ve donated from a place where you have excess fat, such as your abdomen. Using an artist’s eye, Dr. Miller uses fat grafts to give your face more youthful and balanced contours. Another added benefit is the fat grafts also help your facelift heal.

The “Afters” Looked Much Healthier 

Using the same scale, the average of the “before” photos was just “50” on how healthy they looked. But the “after” shots gained 20 points.

Youthful vitality and health go hand in hand. To accelerate your healing and improve the quality of your skin overall, Dr. Miller recommends a skin rejuvenation procedure such as Fractora(TM) laser or microneedling in tandem with your facelift. Lasers and microneedling devices stimulate your skin to produce rejuvenating collagen. Your skin becomes thicker, stronger, smoother, and glows with health.

The “Afters” Looked More Successful

The study participants also rated that the women in the “after” pictures appeared more successful. The average “before” rating was only 50 but jumped to 61 for the “after” photos.

And, as Dr. Miller’s patients report, getting positive feedback on their appearance after a facelift or other cosmetic surgery really does give them a confidence boost. That confidence translates into more willingness to take risks in romance and on the job, leading to more success … and more confidence.

Rate Your Own “After” Photo

Not sure about getting a facelift, but still considering? As part of your facelift consultation, Dr. Miller can create a computer image that shows you what your life-changing results will be. Call Dr. Miller and his facial rejuvenation team to book your facelift consultation today. You deserve to live your after.

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Let’s face it: getting older is hard. Have you been poking and prodding at your face, trying to smooth out the wrinkles you see? If so, then the signs of aging are probably bothering you more than you think. Fortunately, plastic surgeons have many tools for non-invasive rejuvenation available. In fact, there are so many options that no one needs to spend even another minute worrying about how their skin looks.

Laser treatment is one of the most popular treatment types available for many different skin and aging concerns. Laser treatment uses light to control the skin’s natural processes and gradually heal the skin. The result is a refreshed and more youthful appearance. There are so many different types of laser treatments that choosing one can be totally overwhelming (a good problem to have)! If you’re thinking about laser treatments to look and feel younger, here’s what you need to know about choosing the laser that’s right for you—whether that’s a full laser option like Fractora, or a radiofrequency treatment like Face Tite or Tite-FX.

What are Your Goals?

Before you choose the laser treatment that’s right for you, you need to think about what your goals are for the procedure. Are you interested in repairing the sun damage to your face? Do brown spots and rough skin have you wearing layers of makeup to hide the damage? Are you seeing the beginnings of deep wrinkles? Or are you feeling that your body contour just never makes you feel good, no matter how much you exercise?

Ask yourself these tough questions and pinpoint what’s really behind your desire for cosmetic treatments. It’s much easier to choose the perfect treatment if you’re fully aware of your goals and motivations.

Learn About Types of Laser & Radiofrequency Treatments

Once you know what you want to achieve, you’ll need to know what some of your options are. Take some time to research the many laser and radiofrequency treatments available. This will help prepare you to talk with your plastic surgeon about the procedures you’re interested in. Here are just a few great choices:

Face Tite

While many people are focused on wrinkles and sun damage, others face different problems like sagging skin and excess fat in the face. If you’re struggling with these issues, Face Tite is a great option for improving the overall appearance of the face. This treatment combines radiofrequency energy with gentle liposuction. This will help to contour and tighten the face for a youthful, refreshed appearance.

Fractora

Fractora is a laser radiofrequency technology that helps stimulate and resurface the skin. This is a minimally-invasive procedure that can be completed in just one visit! Like many other laser resurfacing treatments, Fractora uses fractional energy to address skin concerns. The benefit is that there is no prolonged downtime or extensive side effects. Fractora treatments can address many different problems, including fine lines, wrinkles, pigmentation issues, poor skin tone and texture, visible blood vessels and the overall appearance of the skin.

Tite-FX

We all know that exercise and a healthy diet are a key part of any wellness plan. Unfortunately, it’s not always possible to achieve your desired cosmetic results through these methods alone. Tite-FX is a great way to help tone and contour the body when exercise alone isn’t working. Using a combination of vacuum technology and radiofrequency energy, this treatment can help improve body contour and even address cellulite. Some patients prefer to combine Tite-FX with liposuction treatments for more comprehensive results.

Talk to a Plastic Surgeon

After you know your options, it’s time to choose a plastic surgeon and discuss your treatment options with an expert. Your consultation is the most important step in choosing the perfect laser treatment. You’ll get an opportunity to receive personalized recommendations based on your goals and the condition of your skin. Be sure to come to your consultations prepared to make the most of them. Ask questions, get to know your surgeon, and make sure you feel comfortable before you commit to any treatment.

If you’re looking for an experienced plastic surgeon to help you make this important decision, consider a consultation with Dr. Philip Miller. Dr. Miller is an acclaimed facial plastic surgeon in the competitive New York area. His distinguished credentials have earned him respect from both colleagues and patients. If you’d like to schedule a consultation with Dr. Miller in New York, call (646) 791-3025 today!

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A facelift is a type of procedure designed to make improvements to your face in order to reduce signs of aging in these areas. The following will provide a detailed look at the many benefits of a facelift and why this procedure is right for you.

When You Should Receive a Facelift

It’s important to understand that aging, stress, heredity and environmental conditions are just a few of the factors as to why you may begin to lose your youthful appearance. However, this exceedingly safe procedure will ensure that your face remains as youthful at the age of 40 as it was at 25.

If you notice signs of aging and believe that you could look better, a facelift if perfect for you. Full confidence with your appearance can do wonders to your personal and professional lives. These signs of aging include a loss of skin tone in the lower portion of the face, creases below the eyelids and along the nose, sagging around the middle portion of the face and drooping fat.

What a Facelift Procedure Entails

The primary procedure for a facelift is minimally invasive and only takes a small amount of time to complete. The procedure begins with the administration of anesthesia in order to make you comfortable during the surgery. This can include either general anesthesia or intravenous sedation. Once the anesthesia has been administered, the incision will be made. Where this incision takes place largely depends on the type of facelift you are looking to have done.

For a traditional facelift, the incision begins at the hairline and extends around the ear and towards the lower scalp. For a limited incision facelift, the incisions at the temple are smaller and only extend around the ear. Once the fat has been sculpted and rearranged for a better looking face, the incisions will be closed and will fade relatively quickly.

Ideal Candidates for This Procedure

Thankfully, it doesn’t require much to be an ideal candidate for this procedure, so there’s practically no reason to worry about being denied for it. The best candidates largely include people that don’t have health conditions that would cause problems with the healing process.

Non-smokers are preferable over smokers as well. It’s also important that you have realistic expectations of what this procedure will do for you and have a generally positive outlook about the results from the procedure, which will make preparations for a facelift much easier.

Benefits of a Facelift

There are a wide variety of benefits that you will receive when getting a facelift. For instance, you’ll automatically have a much more youthful and natural look to your face, which will aid in aging gracefully as the years pass by. This will also help to boost your confidence levels.

A few of the primary advantages of having this procedure done include repairing loose skin for a smoother look, providing improvements for facial contours for a better looking jawline and tightening your facial muscles for less tension in the face.

Risks and Recovery Time

Like any surgical procedure, there are a few risks involved as well. These include bleeding, risks with anesthesia, infections, fluid accumulation, skin discoloration, prolonged swelling, numbness, pain that persists and poor wound healing.

As for recovery time, you will generally be provided with instructions on how to treat your face once the surgery has been completed. Overall, recovery time is typically anywhere from two to three weeks.

Call us today to find out more about the facelift procedure and to schedule a consultation with Dr. Miller.

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