Classical beautification and rejuvenation procedures are often performed in conjunction with a facial feminisation. After a facial feminisation surgery, a face-lift will adjust the soft tissues of your face to your new bone structure and the female outline of your face will be more clearly defined.
Blepharoplasty
Simultaneously with a facial feminisation surgery it is common for eye bags and sagging eyelids to be corrected with a procedure called “blepharoplasty”.
It’s very hard to get rid of the deep cheek folds that extend from the corner of the nose to the corners of the mouth (nasolabial folds). This area seems to make a difference in passing.
A facelift can help reduce this, but the best results are acheived with fat grafts.
Before fat injection in nasio-labial folds (and lips).
After fat injection in nasio-labial folds (and lips).
Facelift
Face-lift surgery will make you look many years younger than you really are. The difference between your real age and your looks will last for decades; that is, as you grow older you will still look much younger than you really are.
Moreover, if you have already had a facial feminisation surgery, a face-lift will adjust the soft areas of your face to your new bone structure and the female outline of your face will be more clearly defined.
After jaw or chin surgery it is often necessary for older patients to have a face-lift because the reduction in bone and the effects of swelling can leave a previously non existing sagging skin.
Face Lift Surgery (rhytidectomy) lifts the areas that gravity has pulled down, especially the cheeks. The Submusclar Aponeurotic System (SMAS) is a layer beneath the skin which includes the facial muscles. By tightening the SMAS, the jowls are lifted, the neck is tightened, and the cheeks are elevated. This “deep” or “2-layer” facelift is an improvement over earlier skin-only techniques.
A facelift enhances the cheeks definition and volume because the surplus skin is cut out to allow the tightening of what is left, but the surplus muscles (worked at the SMAS level) are not cut out: they are instead folded up over the cheekbones. This means that the loose muscles that currently sag below the cheekbones are raised and repositioned as a pleat in front of them to make them look fuller beneath the tensed skin. This lifting manoeuvre also decreases the flabby tissues over the jowls area, which in turn reduces the nasolabial folds.
Facelifts will not improve the forehead nor eyebrow areas. For this, forehead or brow lift surgery is necessary (which is usually standard in facial feminisation surgery.)
Fat in the submental region is usually related to obesity. However, fat may be present even in individuals of normal weight. As aging progresses, many people develop submental fat deposits independent of their weight.
Liposuction is the treatment of choice for fat removal in the youthful neck.
Liposuction is done by inserting a small cannula with a vacuum attached, through a tiny incision made in the skin. The cannula is pushed and then pulled through the fat layer, breaking up the fat cells and suctioning them out.
