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Facial lifting and shaping

What is non-surgical facial lifting and shaping? Along with improving skin quality lifting and shaping a face are the corner stones of facial rejuvenation. In the same way as painting and decorating a room can restore it non surgical treatments can go a long way to treat lines and blemishes but will never achieve the transformation that a structural renovation can achieve for a building or plastic surgery can achieve for a face.

What is the procedure for non-surgical facial lifting and shaping? Careful application of botox can help lift some facial features such as the eye brow, the lip and the vertical neck lines and can work predictably well in experienced hands. Some deep filler injections can restore volume and give some lift to cheek areas and jowls. Although effects are small they can be sufficient in the right patients and results pleasing.
Radio frequency treatments have been used extensively around the world and have an effect by heating skin and fat to controlled temperatures and again can give impressive results in some individuals. The problem is we don’t know which ones are going to work before we try so their predictability is poor.
Skin resurfacing coupled with skin shrinkage can also work to lift jowls and smoothen eyelids. It predictably improves skin texture and surface but is less predictable for skin shrinkage and tightening.
Fat transfer from the abdomen has come a long way to minimise more invasive procedures and can give excellent results by restoring appropriate fullness to the face. Using much larger volumes of a natural material than the artificial fillers allow fat transfer can lift and recontour large areas and offers permanent results. Surgery of course offers the most effective and long lasting lift to the face.

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Simon Lee, cosmetic plastic surgeon, Life Style Surgery. Spire Bristol Hospital, The Glen, Redland Hill, Durdham Down, Bristol BS6 6UT. Tel: 0117 904 1311

What is non-surgical facial lifting and shaping? Along with improving skin quality lifting and shaping