52 year old white female desiring more youthful look through cheek lift in South

Patient

Age:: 50 - 59
Gender:: Female
Ethnicity:: White
Height:: 5’ 0” - 5’ 5”
Weight:: 200 - 249 lbs
Gallery:: 39303

Profile

**Dr. Scott Kasden**
Plastic Surgeon
817-809-9674

Procedure Details

This female was concerned about blotchy skin, nasolabial folds, and a "flappy neck". A lower facelift was performed to sculpt the cheeks and neck by removing excess skin and lifting the sagging fat pads and muscles. The nasolabial folds are improved, the jowls are eliminated, and the neckline is more acute and well defined. The patient is about 14 months post-op, and the blotchy skin will be treated with peels, and perhaps IPL. The patient is very happy with her results and had an uneventful recovery.

This is a 53 year old white female who wanted a more youthful appearance. Her concerns included blotchy pigmentation, nasolabial folds, and her neck. Her goals were to look a little less tired and to get rid of the "flappy neck" Exam: The patient had prominent nasolabial folds, hollow appearing cheeks, jowls, lax skin, and a moderate thickness fat pad under the jaw. Additional findings included platysmal bands in the anterior neck and a somewhat forward trachea. Surgical technique: A lower facelift was performed using a smas-platysma lift. The cheek fat pad (of Bichet) was elevated and to reduce the nasolabial folds and correct the jowls. Using a submental incision (under the chin), the redundant platysma muscle was reduced, and sutured along the midline. A notch was made in the muscle to allow the muscle to rise up under the jaw and give a deeper jawline from the profile view. The jawline was blunted somewhat by the forwardly located trachea, and by the patient's post-op weight gain (~15 lbs). The patient is approximately 14 months post-op. More