Facelift Series #5: Facelift Friends

A facelift may be the star of the show, but it’s rarely a solo act.
Dr. Lawrence Bass and Dr. Kylie Edinger break down the “facelift friends” — the add-on procedures and treatments that enhance results, restore balance, and address areas the lift alone can’t fix.
The key is harmony. A lifted mid and lower face can still look “off” if the eyes, brows, skin, or lips tell a different age story.
By tailoring combinations of surgical and non-surgical treatments to your needs, you can walk away with results that look complete, natural, and last longer without having to come back months later for the “next worst thing.”
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About Dr. Kylie Edinger
Dr. Kylie Edinger is a plastic surgeon practicing in Bozeman, Montana. During the creation of this facelift series, she was training as an aesthetic plastic surgery fellow with Dr. Bass and a host of other world class plastic surgeons at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital in New York City. Part of the prestigious Northwell Health program, this is one of the top aesthetic plastic surgery fellowships in the country. Dr. Edinger completed her plastic surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin.
Follow Dr. Edinger on Instagram @kylieedinger
About Dr. Lawrence Bass
Innovator. Industry veteran. In-demand Park Avenue board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Lawrence Bass is a true master of his craft, not only in the OR but as an industry pioneer in the development and evaluation of new aesthetic technologies. With locations in both Manhattan (on Park Avenue between 62nd and 63rd Streets) and in Great Neck, Long Island, Dr. Bass has earned his reputation as the plastic surgeon for the most discerning patients in NYC and beyond.
To learn more, visit the Bass Plastic Surgery website or follow the team on Instagram @drbassnyc
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Welcome to Park Avenue
Plastic Surgery Class,
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the podcast where we explore controversies
and breaking issues in plastic
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surgery. I'm your co-host, Summer Hardy,
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a clinical assistant at Bass
Plastic Surgery in New York City.
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I'm excited to be here with Dr. Lawrence
Bass, Park Avenue plastic surgeon,
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educator and technology innovator.
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The title of this episode is Facelift
Friends. Illuminate this title for me,
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Dr. Bass. What are we talking about today?
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We're talking about treatments and
procedures that are often done in
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conjunction with the facelift.
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Our main focus is procedures
that are done at the same time,
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but there are also treatments that
may be taking place in a series before
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or after the facelift.
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All of these associated procedures
or friends are intended to
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address other features that the
facelift doesn't address or to
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amplify the degree of correction
that the facelift can produce.
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Some of these features the facelift
doesn't address are in the zone of the
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tissues the facelift works on,
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other features are aging changes in
parts of the face that the facelift does
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not modify,
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but are subject to aging changes
along with the rest of the face.
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Okay, let's get right into it.
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What are some examples of procedures
that address areas of the face that
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facelift doesn't?
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Some examples include
blepharoplasty, brow lift, lip lift,
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and earlobe reduction,
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which are the more common procedures
that are done in concert with a facelift.
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A blepharoplasty is a surgery to remove
excess skin and fat of the upper and
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lower eyelids.
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This is a very nice surgery with nearly
imperceptible scarring that removes
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redundant overhanging skin of the
upper eyelids and eye bags of the lower
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lids, leaving patients looking
more refreshed and well rested.
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A brow lift surgery is a surgery
that is exactly what it says.
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It lifts the brows.
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The lift can be customized to create
the brow shape the patient desires,
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and there are many different
types of brow lift surgery.
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There are coronal brow lifts, minimally
invasive endoscopic brow lifts,
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gliding brow lifts, temporal
brow lifts, direct brow lifts,
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and many other variations
to these techniques that
each use their own incision
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placement and fixation techniques to
create a lifted, youthful brow shape,
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which brow lift is best for you will be
a discussion to have with your plastic
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surgeon. A lip lift is a surgery that
places a scar that's hidden within the
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contours at the base of your nose,
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and it's used to shorten the
length of the upper lip. As we age,
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the distance between the nasal
tip and the upper lip increases,
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and our columella lengthens.
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This surgery shortens this distance
to create a more youthful upper lip.
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Earlobe reductions help to restore a
younger looking earlobe that is not as
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stretched and elongated.
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Patients often overlook how impactful
an earlobe reduction can be to giving an
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overall refreshed and
younger look to the face.
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All of these surgeries are great adjuncts
to add on during a facelift surgery so
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that all areas of the face are addressed
to maintain a natural balance after
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surgery. We have mentioned this a
few times already in this series,
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but a facelift is a surgery that primarily
focuses on the midface and the lower
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face. It corrects chowing,
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repositions cheek fat
softens nasolabial folds,
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and helps correct loose skin and
platysmal banding of the neck.
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When you address the lower and the
midface alone with a facelift and fail to
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address aging of the eyes,
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brows and other areas mentioned
that are a telltale sign of aging,
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you can be left with an unnatural
appearance as the harmony of the face is
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disrupted.
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And these areas that are not
treated by the facelift, again,
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are centered in the perioral area,
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the area around the mouth,
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the periorbital area or periocular area,
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the area around the eyes
and the upper face or
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forehead area. So they're not
action areas for the facelift.
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But when you think about it,
when people interact with you,
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they spend most of their time
looking at your eye area.
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About 70% of the time studies show.
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So working on periorbital changes
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along with face changes as well
as some of these other areas like
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lip contour, earlobes,
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but particularly that area around
the eyes is really important to
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project the kind of image
you're trying to project,
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that useful restored image and nod
your aging looking a little bit
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worn out kind of image.
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Okay, so we discussed
examples of procedures that
address areas of the face the
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facelift doesn't,
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are there any procedures done in the
area of the facelift to amplify the
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correction?
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There are indeed, and this has
become a really big thing. In fact,
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a central thing in facelifting in 2025 and
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beyond. Fat grafting to
add volume back to the
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face to enhance the restoration
of a youthful facial
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shape has become really central to
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facelift surgery because we lose not only
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a loosening of the skin as we age,
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but we lose volume in the
face and repositioning the
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reduced volume moves us
back towards a youthful
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shape.
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But adding back some of the
lost volume using fat grafting
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moves us a lot closer back
to that youthful shape.
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And there are other advantages besides.
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Sometimes instead of using fat grafting,
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this is done with chin and cheek implants,
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which have a more
predictable volume and shape.
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And overall fat grafting will enhance skin
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re-draping and overall
harmony of facial shape
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because the more projecting
the underlying scaffolding,
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the better, more completely
the skin will re-drape.
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Okay, so finally,
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we're ready to talk about procedures
that do other things besides what the
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facelift does.
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These are things the facelift doesn't
do at all or maybe only does minimally.
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So for example,
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wrinkles and other
features of skin quality.
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Dr. Edinger, what are
the main approaches here?
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Some of the main ones are laser
resurfacing, chemical peels, dermabrasion,
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and other energy treatments of the skin,
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like radiofrequency microneedling are
basically some examples of the modalities
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that we use to enhance skin
quality by improving its texture,
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coloring and wrinkling.
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These modalities can be tailored and
how aggressive they are depending on the
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patient need and their
tolerability of downtime.
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They all come with similar risks including
hyperpigmentation or darkening of the
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skin, hypopigmentation or lightening
of the skin, and scarring.
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Which modality is best for each patient
really depends on several factors,
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including their degree of wrinkling,
their texture, their patient's skin color,
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and ethnicity.
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There are other modalities you'll
possibly have heard about including skin
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rejuvenating treatments like
platelet-rich plasma or PRP and exosomes.
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Platelet rich plasma is a concentration
of platelets and growth factors that are
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actually derived in the patient's own
blood. Exosomes, on the other hand,
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are a bottled version of platelet derived
growth factors and signaling molecules
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with proteins that are harvested from
stem cells and manufactured into a topical
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product. The platelets,
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growth factors and signaling proteins
from PRP and exosomes are often used in
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combination with microneedling or
injections to deliver their regenerative
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molecules to the target
tissue more directly.
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They're used to reduce inflammation,
stimulate collagen production,
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and enhance skin tone quality and texture.
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And I alluded to this before,
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but fat grafting itself for
certain forms of fat grafting
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like nanofat, in addition
to adding back volume,
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also signal a lot of the biological
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youthful skin responses
that things like PRP and
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exosomes can signal.
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So part of the interest in fat
grafting is restoring that facial
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volume,
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but part of it is also
about trying to modulate the
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biology of the skin in a favorable
way to get new blood supply,
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new collagen, better
healing and a more vibrant,
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youthful looking skin.
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It sounds like there's a
lot of different options.
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How do you decide when
other procedures are needed?
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Deciding which procedures to apply really
depends on what the specific patient
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needs. We do not want to treat
one isolated part of the face,
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leaving the face unbalanced
and unnatural after surgery.
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So we approach each patient holistically
and come up with a treatment plan to
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meet their unique goals and their needs.
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Not every patient is going to need a
blepharoplasty or a brow lift in concert
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with a facelift to maintain
that facial harmony.
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Some patients will need more aggressive
skin rejuvenation efforts to improve
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their texture and wrinkling,
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while other patients may need more
of a focus on volume restoration.
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Each treatment is thoughtfully considered
and applied to each patient based on
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what they need and what they're
hoping to get out of the surgery,
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all while ensuring that at the end of
the day they're left with a natural,
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youthful, balance result.
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I think that's so important.
You said that beautifully.
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It's extremely common. In other words,
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not every facelift, but most of them,
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almost all of them that some other
procedures included at the same
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time and often multiple additional
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procedures.
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But this is always based on
careful physical exam by the
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plastic surgeon to identify features
that need to be addressed and
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that mated with the
individual patient's aesthetic
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concerns.
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So it's that customization that
Dr. Edinger was talking about
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that creates an individual
plan for that patient.
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Are there downsides to adding
procedures? How does it impact recovery?
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The main downside to adding more
procedures is increased cost in anesthesia
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time.
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The adjunct procedures we have discussed
will have minimal impact on recovery
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time,
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but they may increase the overall amount
of bruising and swelling after surgery.
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Some procedures can be
done exactly as you usually
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would as a standalone,
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and other procedures are modified
a little bit if they're done in
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conjunction with a facelift.
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So things like laser
resurfacing in particular
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is a good example of that,
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especially if it's full field
and not fractional resurfacing.
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I have actually written a
couple of discussions on
this in medical journals and
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book chapters where we
modify how we do the laser
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resurfacing because we're attacking
the skin from the surface as well
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as from underneath with
the facelift surgery.
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In order to do that safely,
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we need to change things up a little
bit and use a different set of
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laser parameters,
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but these things can be done
reliably and safely at the
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same time.
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Okay. And what are the most common
facelift friends in your hands?
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I most commonly perform blepharoplasty
and fat transfer during the time of
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facelift surgery.
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I find that most patients need
that in addition to the facelift,
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and I usually add in a skin resurfacing
modality to improve their texture and
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wrinkling to the treatment plan,
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whether this be at the time of surgery
or at some point before or after the
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surgery.
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And I'm going to sound a little bit
like a broken record because I have
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more or less the same answer.
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Blepharoplasty is extremely
common at the same time
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as a facelift surgery unless
the patient has done it
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previously.
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And fat grafting is associated
with facelift surgery in many,
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many cases unless there's
a particularly heavy face
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and not just for the faces
that are strikingly hollow,
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but there are more subtle aging
changes that are volume mediated
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in most faces that can
benefit from fat grafting
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along with those biological
benefits. In addition,
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I'm a big laser resurfacer.
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I think lifting a face and
leaving a bunch of wrinkles is
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half a job or glass half full,
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and I'd rather have the
glass all the way full.
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So I do this frequently with the facelift,
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but sometimes it's better to do it as
a standalone to get a more complete
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treatment.
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But localized areas like the perioral
area with those lipstick bleed lines
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are really, really common at
the same time as a facelift,.
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As an alternative,
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you can do it as a
fractionated treatment in a
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series starting at the facelift,
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but then with more treatments
later on after recovery.
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That makes a lot of sense. So Dr. Edinger,
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do you have some takeaways
for us on this topic?
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For me, treating all aging faces with a
facelift alone is a lot like repairing a
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weathered home's foundation without
replacing the roof or updating the windows
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or repainting the house itself.
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So while the aging face may very well
require a facelift to improve and reverse
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the signs of aging,
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it is not the only modality we have
at our disposal to restore youth.
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We have to approach the
face not in isolated units,
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but as a comprehensive
entity. When we restore youth,
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it has to be balanced and tailored
to give them that natural result.
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So that's really important.
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Dr. Edinger really laid it
out nicely that there are
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circumstances where someone has done other
things and all they need at this time
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is a facelift or a secondary lift,
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but usually a few other
features are really ready for
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treatment at the same time.
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And you'll notice the next worst thing
if you take the worst thing away,
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things that are very minor, you can leave.
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But things that are really ready
to be done are commonly performed
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along with the facelift.
More often than not.
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Skin quality in particular
needs other treatments.
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This is often done as a series
or sometimes at another time.
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And the other aging features, again,
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the areas that facelift
doesn't treat or that facelift
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doesn't fully address need
additional concomitant treatments.
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So as I said, when you
take away the worst thing,
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you inevitably see the next worst thing,
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and you don't want to turn around in
three months and be back for another
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procedure. That's about planning.
Have a detailed discussion with your
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plastic surgeon, see what they suggest,
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and look at yourself in
the mirror and in pictures.
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I usually show patients a photograph
of themselves during a consultation,
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and if the features the surgeon
points out are meaningful to
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you, take this chance at the same
time as the facelift to chase them.
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If you're really convinced
they don't matter to you,
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it's okay to leave them off.
But overall facelift friends,
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these associated procedures are an
essential part of putting together the
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most complete rejuvenation
possible, a harmonious,
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beautiful face.
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Take advantage of them during the
facelift and use them to best advantage.
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All of these add-ons make deciding what
to do when having a facelift a lot more
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confusing, but they also promise
a lot of additional rejuvenation.
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Thank you Dr. Bass,
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Dr. Edinger for schooling us on these
additional options and all they can do for
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us. They truly are facelift
and patient friends.
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