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»Forehead Lift
»Eyebrow Lift and Temporal Browlift
Benefits:
Take years off your looks with a forehead lift. The skin on your forehead will be smoother with fewer horizontal creases and vertical frown lines between the brows. Lifting sagging brows and eyelids will make your eyes appear larger and more alert. This surgery can also correct asymmetrical eyebrows. To further enhance your appearance, this procedure is often done along with a facelift, eyelid procedures, or Botox or collagen injections.
This procedure isn’t well-suited to men because receding hairlines reveal the scar. Instead, men benefit more from a browlift, discussed further down on this page.
How Is It Done?
• General anesthetic is used for this procedure.
• We work under the skin using a tiny, endoscopic camera, which is inserted in 5 half-inch incisions within the hairline (so that no hair is shaved).
• We draw up the brows and forehead by tightening tissue layers under the skin.
• The incisions are closed with dissolvable sutures.
Recovery:
• Consider staying in our facility the first night so we can keep you comfortable with IV medications.
• An overnight pressure dressing will reduce swelling and bruising.
• Most of the discomfort passes after the first night, and prescription medication will control your pain.
• Bruising and swelling recede in a week.
• Resume light exercise in 1 week and more strenuous workouts in 2 weeks.
• Feel free to use shampoo and conditioner the next day (once the pressure dressing is removed), and hairspray, mousse, hair dryers, and curling irons in a week.
• You can resume normal activities in 7-10 days.
• Scars are in the hair and hard to find.
• Your forehead will feel tight for about 3 months.
Benefits:
For a noticeably younger, more refreshed appearance, consider a browlift. It reduces forehead wrinkles and frown lines between the brows and can fix asymmetrical eyebrows. Browlifts make your eyes look bigger and refreshed by removing the “tired” look of heavy upper eyelids.
How Is It Done?
• It’s usually performed under local anesthetic, but you can opt for twilight or general.
• We make an incision above the eyebrows -- often in a natural skin crease – or just inside the hairline at the temple.
• Tissues under the skin are pulled up and tightened, the skin is re-draped, extra skin is trimmed, and the incision is closed with dissolvable sutures.
Recovery:
• Pain medication will relieve the discomfort you’ll feel after surgery.
• A compression dressing, sometimes used overnight, minimizes swelling and bruising.
• Bruising and swelling around the eye area goes away in 3-7 days.
• Resume light exercise within 3 days and more active workouts in a week.
• It’s fine to wear make-up the next day, but avoid the forehead area for 1 week.
• Temple incisions are hard to see within 1-2 weeks. The forehead incision can be covered with bangs for the first couple weeks, and then will blend into the natural crease line.
Before and After Photographs
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