Lifetime lift what is it

It is a surgery that requires the use of anesthesia, either general or local, depending on the particular needs of the patient. An incision is made behind the hairline to avoid visibility. The skin, tissue, and muscle are separated so fat can be removed, muscle and tissue can be tightened, and excess skin can be lifted or trimmed.

Stitches or sutures are used to maintain the new form during the recovery process. A Lifestyle Lift is a trademarked name of a procedure, heavily marketed to potential patients.

The procedure is performed by doctors who are employees or contractors of the company that is responsible for advertising and marketing the procedure. The doctors are heavily incentivized to perform the surgery as quickly as possible, so technique is often rushed and hurried.

The advertisements show real patients who have achieved excellent results, however, if you do a little research you will find these outcomes are far from the norm. A Lifestyle Lift is most commonly a modified version of a mini facelift. However, they are not associated with permanent, lasting results. A vast majority of patients who have undergone a Lifestyle Lift procedure report less-than-desirable results. After all, not every face is created equally, and a cookie cutter procedure is not going to produce consistent results.

For the best, and longest lasting results, you need a lift tailor-made to fit your particular muscles, skin, and facial structure.

The Lifestyle Lift involves incisions being made both in the front and back of the ear under local anesthesia. It's performed with minimal undermining, which means, instead of reaching the tissues that need to be lifted, the doctor pulls on adjacent tissues to force-pull the target tissues into place. Excess muscle is folded and then sutured into place while the excess skin is removed.

Less than half of a traditional, full facelift is being performed, which often produces suboptimal results. Due to minimal undermining, more tension is placed on the incisions, which must be closed tightly. When the tension builds, the skin stretches at the weakest point, which is where the incision was made. This procedure will not provide most patients with natural-looking results. Most Lifestyle Lift patients didn't realize they would have all the scars of a short-scar facelift, but only the tissue pulling of a mini-facelift.

Therefore, most patients are negatively surprised by the results. Full facelifts do more than pull; they pull naturally. A qualified surgeon understands that your face, the skin and underlying tissues and muscles, needs a lift that accommodates its unique makeup. According to Seery, negative reviews represented more than half of the posts about the company on realself.

There are posts on realself. There are 1, posts about face-lifts performed by independent surgeons, and despite their higher price point, 89 percent of the reviews are positive.

Ultimately, I believe the the real reason Lifestyle Lift failed is because most plastic-surgery practices are built on word of mouth from patients who enjoy personalized attention. Patients bond with doctors and staff members, not with brand names. I am a double-boarded plastic surgeon fully trained and certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, with over twenty-five years of experience in facial rejuvenation surgery.

The marketing of Lifestyle Lift is so slick and pervasive that even at my level of practice, my sophisticated universe of patients often ask me about Lifestyle and how inexpensive it is with such beautiful results. Any physician who has familiarity in surgery can participate. They just have to follow the instructions and guidelines given them by the company: do it fast, do it cheap, do as many as you can in a day. The patients are awake, and are given injections of local anesthesia into the face.

They recover at home. Speed is the keyword- one hour. Even if the surgeon is capable and competent, good surgery takes time and that is not allowed in the corporate formula.

As the economy faltered after coincidentally the same year Lifestyle Lift began , and as competition between cosmetic surgeons increased, Lifestyle Lift was able to entice some board-certified plastic surgeons into their ranks.