Facelift

When it comes to aging, gravity is not your ally.

Fortunately, with our customized Newport Beach facelift, Dr. Hendricks can help you turn back the clock and look younger and more energized. Talk with him to learn how he can personalize your facelift to help you achieve your cosmetic goals. Call his office or schedule your appointment online today.

What Is A FaceLift?

A facelift, also know as a rhytidectomy, is a surgical procedure that lifts or removes sagging skin and tissues on your face, creating a smoother, younger and more rejuvenated looking you. At Pacifica Cosmetic Surgery Center, Dr. Hendricks strives to offer his patients the best facelift Newport Beach has to offer. This means that he takes the time to talk with you about your aesthetic goals and analyze your unique face shape, skin, and signs of aging to develop a tailored and comprehensive plan for your facial rejuvenation.

Customizing the procedure for each individual patient, Dr. Hendricks might recommend surgery, non-surgical treatments, or a blend of both, depending on what your face needs to look its best. Your comprehensive vertical facelift doesn’t just refresh your skin, by using his extensive expertise, Dr. Hendricks creates facial harmony, so every feature of your face looks its best and blends beautifully together. Newport Beach plastic Surgeon, Dr. Hendricks also offers mini facelifts and lifts for specific parts of your face. If your cheeks, eyelids, or forehead could use some rejuvenation, but you’re not ready for a full facelift, talk with him about these individual procedures.

Facelift Techniques

SMAS Facelift

The SMAS facelift method may be selected for patients that are interested in traditional facelift surgery. It works by tightening the tissue that lies between the facial skin and facial muscles.

Deep Plane Facelift

The underlying muscle and skin remain attached to the underlying fascia as it is repositioned and lifted. Dr. Hendricks will select the facelift method that is most appropriate for your individual facial aging concerns by drawing on his many years of experience as a triple-board certified surgeon.

Non-Surgical Facelift

Non-surgical facelift alternatives may include the use of dermal fillers, which provide temporary, but long-lasting, correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and loss of facial volume that occurs due to the aging process. Pacifica Cosmetic Surgery Center in Newport Beach, CA is pleased to offer a diverse range of facial fillers, including top brands such as Restylane and Juvederm. For expression lines on the upper third of the face, Botox injections (a cosmetic muscle relaxant) may be indicated.

What Is Included In a Facelift?

It depends, both on your specific goals for the procedure and your face. During your consultation for a facelift Newport Beach plastic surgeon, Dr. Hendricks, will create a customized treatment plan to rejuvenate your face. Here are just a few of the procedures Dr. Hendricks can include in your facelift:

What Are The Benefits Of A Facelift?

By blending facial feature corrections and anti-aging techniques into one comprehensive procedure, Dr. Hendricks offers his patients some notable benefits. First, he ensures they love their results. All too often, our facelift patients know they want to change something about their face but they can’t quite put their finger on the issue itself.

Taking a comprehensive approach allows Dr. Hendricks to correct any issues so the result is a transformed, rejuvenated appearance rather than a change in a single area that might not blend seamlessly with the rest of the face.

As a triple-board certified plastic surgeon with decades of experience, Dr. Hendricks has helped many patients gain a more youthful appearance through facelift surgery.

Choosing a facelift can be a more cost-effective option long-term. It’s more affordable to bundle all of the procedures you want in a single surgery, rather than to receive them individually over the years.

Are you interested in a comprehensive facelift? Don’t hesitate to call the Pacifica Cosmetic Surgery Center to schedule your appointment.

Facelift Vs. Mini Facelift

mini facelift provides a subtle lifting effect to correct early signs of advanced facial aging, while the full facelift is designed for the correction of moderate to severe facial aging. The mini facelift scars are smaller in size and quantity than traditional full facelift surgery. A full facelift’s effects tend to last longer than a mini facelift, an average of 10 years and 6 years respectively, though this may vary based upon the patient’s individual rate of aging.

The Right Age for a Facelift

Many patients start considering a facelift around age 40 and beyond when signs of facial aging begin to result in moderate facial skin sagging and wrinkles. Regardless of age, Southern California plastic surgeon, Dr. Hendricks, is committed to ensuring you achieve a fantastic result, whether you are in need of a mini facelift procedure, standard facelift, or a combined procedure.

Facelift frequently asked questions

A cosmetic surgical procedure that is designed to remove and lift excess sagging facial skin that is a direct result of aging. The procedure is fully customized to your needs since facial aging affects each person’s face differently.
Since it’s a highly individualized surgery, each facelift requires a different degree of skin removal and lifting to achieve the desired effect. Thus, the cost of a facelift varies by patient. After the consultation, you will receive a full cost breakdown based upon the personalized surgical plan Dr. Hendricks creates for you.

Patients can generally shower the day after facelift surgery. Instructions will be provided as needed.

If general anesthesia is administered, it is not advisable to drive for the first 24 hours of surgery. Someone will need to drive you to and from the surgical appointment. You can return to driving when you feel comfortable; This includes having a full range of movement of the head. Driving or operating heavy machinery may not be advised if certain pain medications are prescribed. Facelifts performed in conjunction with eye surgeries, which may require the use of eye drops which may temporarily obstruct vision, may require a few more days off driving.
It is best to take about six weeks off of strenuous activities such as exercise following the facelift procedure. Walking, however, is encouraged in the first few days post-op.

revision facelift or secondary facelift can be performed on patients that require a touch up due to advancing age or dissatisfaction with past facelift surgery.

Facelift incisions are most often placed at the hairline, near the ears, where they can be easily hidden. If the rhytidectomy is performed at the same time as eyelid or forehead lifting, this will involve small, discreetly placed incisions. Once healed, it is difficult for others to notice any facelift scars without a trained eye.

The time spent in the operating room is between two to four hours, although this varies based on the number of areas that are being corrected during surgery. Mini facelifts take less time in the operating room.

Patients should avoid sleeping face down. It is best to sleep flat on your back, with the head slightly elevated. Extra pillows or sleeping in a recliner are two ways to achieve this.

Most patients can return to work just one to two weeks after facelift surgery. For individuals that work from home (telecommuting), it may be possible to resume work duties sooner.

Dr. Hendricks is a highly-skilled facial cosmetic surgeon that strives to deliver results that look completely natural. He achieves this by using the latest facelift techniques, never over-tightening the skin.

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