Anti Aging with Sasha - What to do about sagging skin.
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I have saggy skin, what should I do?Traditional facelifts for wrinkle removal are aimed at correcting facial skin that is loose and sagging as a result of sun damage, repeated stresses, loss of muscle tone, collagen and elastin loss, loss of barrier function, and worst of all, loss of the soft fatty tissue underneath the skin. Operating rooms, anesthesia, and surgeons are all required for traditional facelifts and that can be expensive. You will need time away from your daily life to fully recouperate - and this might be quite a while if there are any complications. But these days incision lines are minimal and usually where they are easily disguised in natural lines, or covered over with makeup, and many people are quite happy with their eventual results.
click here for facelifts Nevertheless there are other ways of correcting skin damage such as DMAE and thermage, facial exercises for loss of muscle tone, and Aquamid for the permanent replacement of soft tissue loss, and the results are usually far more natural looking than a mere tightening of skin that will only stretch again given half a chance. A face lift is now a last resort - (not a first one) and even so your options are much broader that they were even ten years ago! Long gone are the days when skin tightening was all there was to a face lift. These days lasers can tighten skin too - well enough for all but the most serious cases so what you will be expecting from your plastic surgeon is a surgical tightening of the underlying muscle tissue, if you are reasonably young perhaps an adjustable 'S lift' where knotted threads are drawn through the muscle tissue to reposition it is all you will need. It is neccessary to surgically tighten facial muscles because facial exercises can only achieve so much when the skin on top of them has already been stretched beyond its capacity to spring back. A readjustment of underlying tissue and a redraping of the skin on top is eventually necessary for most people wanting to keep their youthful contours - but these days instead of having a full face lift at 40 or so, it would not be unusual to wait until 55 and rely on resurfacing, heat treatments such as thermage to tighten skin, Isolagen to repopulate your collagen, exercise, sun protection and soft-tissue augmentation as non-surgical lifts. As well as putting off the evil day, all of these proceedures will mean a better final result for your surgery in any case!
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