Our faces develop wrinkles with experience and age as the skin loses its elasticity. Our eyebrows look droopier, foreheads look furrowed, and skin looks saggy and dull. The forehead lift can reverse some of these problems by simply repositioning the displaced tissue and in some cases tightening the skin. This is often at the lateral sides of the forehead or the temples, which will result in elevating the eyebrows’ tail and improving the upper eyelid skin hooding, or in older patients, elevating the entire forehead.
Procedure
A forehead lift, also called a brow lift, is a procedure that removes excess tissue, alters muscles and tightens the forehead skin. This procedure may be performed using the traditional technique, with an incision across the top of the head just behind the hairline, or with the use of an endoscope, which requires three to five short incisions, but allows access to the relevant areas to be treated incorporating a camera and a monitor to visualise the dissected areas.
Length
One to two hours.
ANAESTHESIA
General anesthesia or intravenous sedation and local anesthesia are options.
INPATIENT/OUTPATIENT
This is most often an outpatient procedure.
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS
When an endoscope is used the patient may experience tiporary swelling, numbness, headaches and bruising. When the traditional method is used there is the possibility of itching and hair loss.
RISKS
Injury to facial nerves causing loss of motion, muscle weakness, or an asymmetrical look, persistent areas of numbness and broad and occasionally excessive scarring
RECOVERY
The patient usually returns to work in seven to ten days and even sooner with an endoscopic forehead lift. The patient must limit more strenuous activities for several weeks. Full recovery from bruising takes from two to three weeks. One should limit sun exposure for several months to avoid hyperpigmentation of the forehead which can occur as a result of sunlight exposure during the first three to six months after the procedure has been performed.
RESULTS
The results from this procedure usually last five to ten years.
Forehead lift is a powerful procedure addressing the fall of the forehead and the eyebrows. While fillers and fat plumps up the forehead and in some instances may result in a minimal lift of the forehead and eyebrows.
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