What can be achieved in facial rejuvenation without surgery: the answer - a lot.
Why is this option attractive to people? Because it involves no loss of work, painful downtime and healing, no surgery or anaesthetic. This is the first of a five part series on the process of a ‘facelift without surgery’.
Your Cosmetic Doctor understands the process of aging.
As the face ages, there are predictable developments that are well understood. Your cosmetic Doctor should have a thorough understanding of these and the tools in their cosmetic enhancement ‘bag of tricks’ to help you achieve a refreshed and younger looking face without surgery.
What is a Non-surgical facelift.
A non-surgical facelift involves a series of minimally invasive treatments with little downtime. Also known as the ‘lunchtime face-lift’ because it can literally be performed over a series of lunchtimes without general anaesthesia or surgery.
It involves a systematic approach to fixing areas of concern: generally spaced over weeks or even months depending on your budget. Once women considered surgery in their 40’s now, with advancement in cosmetic medicine techniques, the need for surgery can be delayed up to a couple of decades.
Minimally invasive Cosmetic Skin Treatments
Common tools used to approach a facial rejuvenation without surgery include use of the following procedures. You will not need all of these, but a combination depending on the areas that concern you, your skin condition and other factors assessed by your Doctor:
Muscle relaxing injections:
for crows feet, frown lines, forehead furrows, mini-brow lifts, bunny scrunches, chin lines, neck bands and smokers lines.Dermal fillers.
used for nasolabial lines, marionette lines, deep filling for early jowl formation and contouring.Rejuvenation of lips with Dermal fillers:
by increasing volume, restoring the lip boarder and getting rid of smokers lines.Collagen regenerating treatments:
for overall facial rejuvenation and volume filling for treating wrinkles on cheeks, nasolabial lines, wrinkles around eyes, lifting early jowls and creating more jaw line definition.Laser resurfacing:
with new Fraxel laser technology for getting rid of pitting of acne scarring, melasma and other aging surface skin changes from sun damage and wrinkles without prolonged healing of traditional lasers.Pigmentation and sun damage removal by Photorejuvenation with Intense Pulsed light treatments
How would a Cosmetic Doctor approach a non-surgical facelift?
The first step: your Doctor should ask you, “What concerns you?”. Most people have a fairly clear idea what areas of facial aging they dislike (we all have our pet hates). This is an optional process so it has to be about helping you achieve results you are happy with.
Some people present simply asking for ‘a younger looking, refreshed face’ and hand it back to the doctor for suggestions. Your cosmetic Doctor can then lend their expertise and understanding of how the years have changed the face and what tools are available to reverse these changes.
Once the assessment is complete, your Doctor will outline your options, what can realistically be achieved with each procedure and importantly how much it will cost. Together you can then come up with a plan that suits your timetable and budget to achieve a facial rejuvenation over a series of lunchtimes or after work appointments.
Tomorrow: Step 1. Muscle relaxing injections for unwanted wrinkles in upper half of face.
