Usually, around the age of 50, the skin of the face starts to feel “plentiful”. Some excess skin also wrinkles. What is done in this surgery is to take this excess skin and tighten the skin.
Facelift surgery has been done for almost a hundred years and is therefore referred to as “classic” surgery. But there have also been revolutionary innovations in the past decade.
Think of the skin as fabric. What do you do if your fabric feels big on the pillow it covers? You cut out the amount you think is too much from one edge.
The facial anatomy is much more complicated than it looks from the outside, and this surgery has a lot of technical details. However, basically, making a cut at the border where the ear meets the cheek and removing the excess skin on the cheek. This cut usually continues into the scalp from the back of the favorite, and again into the scalp behind the ear.
