Full face lift - not the solution

• Thursday August 9, 2007 | Posted in: Facial Surgeons

  Technorati Tags: facelift, plastic surgery

  A very important discovery that would help us understand that what we need to address facial aging may not be a full face lift.

  It is already a common practice that whenever you want to get rid of your wrinkles, you immediately opt for a full face lift. But doing whole facelift may not be the answer as what the findings published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery suggest.

  Dr. Joel Pessa of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is the study’s lead author. Dr. Pessa says that everyone believed face fat is one confluent mass, which eventually gets weighed down by gravity, creating sagging skin.

  However, Dr. Pessa revealed that the face is made up of individual fat compartments that gain and lose fat at different times. These individual fat compartments also gain and lose fat at different rates as people age.

  The study was carried out by injecting different types of dye into facial cavities of 30 cadavers. After 24 hours of settling time, the dye, stayed in separate areas of the face, showing facial compartments have boundaries between them that act like fences. The researches actually expected the dye to permeate the entire face, but that did not happen.

  Pessa finally explained that the findings show not only why people age the way they do and why every part of the face, from the eyelids to the cheeks, ages differently.

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