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By enhancing Facial Structure, Facial Implants can postpone or improve Facelifts
The Pre-Facelift “Lift”
Chin, Cheek and Submalar (below cheekbone) implants provide improved structure, balance and fullness to the face. For a younger patient, that might mean higher cheekbones or a more pronounced chin. Or if they have begun to experience a premature loss of facial fat, it may mean having their youthful facial fullness and contours restored with a submalar implant.
While all of these implant procedures are having an immediate impact on improving one’s appearance, it is also having a longer term effect. Older facial-rejuvenation methods consisted primarily of removing—subtracting—skin and fat, but the implant method adds structure and support. The result is that the day when a facelift would be needed can actually be postponed due to the implants. The “scaffolding” effect of the implants are already providing the needed lift.
Improved Framework for an Improved Facelift
Even our younger patient, with time, may reach a point where the natural loss of facial soft tissue and the loss of elasticity in the skin reaches a point where a facelift might be the only solution. Because that patient had already augmented their facial structure with facial implants, the framework can significantly improve the results of the facelift procedure.
Facelifts (rhytidectomies) are focused on loose, sagging skin of the lower face and neck. In the procedure, the skin and underlying tissue is pulled back and upward to “tighten” the face and neck skin. But a tightened face is not necessarily a more youthful-looking face. In fact, in some instances, the result can be a skeletonized and more aged, “operated-on” appearance because the pulling has actually accentuated the loss of youthful facial fat and structure.
So, increasingly patients are choosing to have their facial structure enhanced with implants before, or in conjunction with, a facelift procedure. Volume restoration by means of mid-face augmentation in conjunction with a facelift can provide the scaffolding for the optimal re-draping of facial tissues to achieve a smoother, more youthful and natural result. Dr. Binder explains:
| “The folds around the mouth are thus unable to be smoothed out without pulling skin too tight, resulting in rapid recurrence of these redundant nasolabial or midfacial folds. The submalar implant is able to provide the necessary foundation to enable the facelift to further reduce these folds by redistributing skin more smoothly over a larger, convex structure and thus adding a more youthful dimension back to the face. The ability for skin to drape evenly and without exerting force prevents the facelift from applying excessive tension on any specific area of the skin and thus avoids, as well as reverses problems associated with the “overdone” facelift.” |
By provide the necessary foundation or framework, it can mean the difference between looking like you’ve had a facelift or just looking younger again.
About Dr. Binder
Dr. William J. Binder helped pioneer the modern concept of “Facial Contouring” with new tools and techniques including a new generation of facial implants created using 3-D computer imaging. Among the most significant of his innovations is the patented BINDER SUBMALAR® FACIAL IMPLANT for restoring youthful contours and volume to the face. He is double-board certified by both the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.
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