Minimal Incision Brow Lift
Perhaps you have shied away from getting brow lift surgery for fear of an invasive procedure. Our certified cosmetic surgeons perform a minimally invasive brow lift procedure that provides incredible results without the worry about extensive surgery and downtime. Call us today in St. Clair Shores (also serving Grosse Pointe, MI) at 586.773.6900. Learn more about this incredible brow lift procedure that is a great way to defy aging! Combine our minimally invasive brow lift with eyelid surgery and experience a whole new you!
Video transcript
“Depending on the patient’s age, if they’re younger and their aging in the forehead isn’t extensive, and as long as the eyebrow hairs aren’t underneath the orbital rim, which is the bone surrounding the eye, then we might use something that’s less invasive called an endoscopic forehead lift. You make several small incisions in the scalp, lift the scalp, and then secure it with the use of these small fixation devices. The advantage of the procedure is that it’s fairly quick, has easier downtime, and you probably get people back to work within a week or so. It helps if you don’t need a significant improvement.
Now, if you’re looking at an older patient, especially men and even some women where the eyebrow hairs are below the orbital bone and there isn’t much space between the eyelashes and the brow, then you’re looking at more of an open procedure. You make incisions in the scalp, bring that tissue back, and then tighten it. The advantage of that is it’s a longer-lasting procedure. I’ve never had to redo a brow lift, an open type procedure, but it’s a much stronger and better result. But it’s like anything else; there’s a higher recovery rate to it. You probably would need a minimum of two weeks to recover, depending on the person.
So those techniques in the upper face are good. In the lower and mid-face, there are several different techniques you can use for rejuvenation. The simplest is skin excisions. They’re easy, quick, and kind of the weekend facelift procedure of old. The advantages are that they’re quick, easy to recover from, and there isn’t much risk or much recovery, but you won’t get as strong of a result.
As people get older, you’ll start to notice that their fat pad and their buckle fat pad will get droopier or larger, and they’ll get weakness in their muscles and their skin laxity as well. With patients like that, you have to do more of a deep plane facelift because it’s just a longer-lasting lift, addressing all the factors — ligaments, fat pad, and tightening up the skin. Those are longer recovery procedures, usually a couple of weeks, but it’s the longest and strongest-lasting facelift that we have.
It can also be used more with smokers because you’re not really thinking that the skin’s doing most of the work; it’s more of the deeper tissues, and the skin’s just kind of along for the ride. Those are similar procedures that we would use in the neck too. You can do small excisions and submentoplasties if you don’t need much, but usually, the gold standard would be incisions behind the ear, and you can tighten up the neck with impunity. I don’t think there’s anything in any area that you can overtighten in a neck, whereas a face, you could do some bad results if people look like they’ve been through a wind tunnel. But a neck, I try and tighten as tight as I can, and I tell patients that it’s going to be very tight after. But that’s probably how it was when you were 20, you know, so you just have to get used to that a little bit.
All these different surgical procedures are intertwined with potentially fat grafting from the patients. A lot of times, now we know that we lose bone density as we get older, people get shorter and all that, and hunched over. But probably we lose a fair amount of bone in the face too. Since we can’t really replace the bone, a lot of times, we’ll use implants or the patient’s own fat. Most patients like their own fat, and I like it too because it’s a little more natural than an implant. So we’ll use that as well. If they have too much fat in their face, we’ll suction some of the fat out. Those different types of procedures are very individualized; not every patient is getting the same surgery. They’re getting a surgery that’s just right for them.”–Dr. George T. Goffas
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Areas served:
- St. Clair Shores
- Detroit
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