Facial Surgery

Facial surgery is one of the most common cosmetic surgery used or enhancing your appearance and prevents foreseeable aging. Almost all features of face can be augmented with various plastic surgery techniques, however, most frequently thought of is a face lift. Facial surgery helps in removing wrinkles and deep lines around jaw and eyes. It can also be used for tone sagging, skin resurfacing in which tone and texture of skin is improvised. Specific features of face such as nose, eyelids, chin and cheeks can also be exclusively dealt with.

A brief description of each facial cosmetic surgery procedure will help you decide which one suits your requirement.

  1. Face Lift: As you age, effects of environment starts reflecting on your face. Due to gravity, excess exposure to sun and stress can result in wrinkles around jaws, deep lines between nose and mouth, skin sagging and droopy jowls. Face lift is a painless 3-4 hour procedure that works by tightening of muscles and fat reduction from specific areas on face. It takes about ten to 2 weeks for recovery and results can be pleasing. With signs of aging gone, your confidence level will definitely boost.
  2. Facial Augmentation: with gravity working on your cheeks and chin, tissues soften and shift from youthful position of cheekbones and chinbone respectively, giving you a sulking look. Facial Augmentation thus includes cheeks and chin implants to improve the profile of your face. Implants used popularly are solid silicone or porex, in this 1-2 hour procedure with no visible scars afterwards. Recovery may take ten to 2 weeks and initially may impart some discomfort.
  3. Eyelid surgery or Eye Lift: If you have those crow feet, droopy eyelids, fine lines around the corners of eyes with excess fat accumulating around eyes, then you can opt for eyelid surgery. This will remove the excess fat and give a more wide eyed look. However people have misconception that it will lift their droopy eyebrows, improve dark circles around eyes, which is not in package with eyelift procedure. It is a short process of about thirty minutes to 1 hour. Recovery precautions should be carefully followed like no driving after the surgery.
  4. Nose Surgery: It is one of the most asked-for surgical processes, for reshaping the nose structure and profile. It involves many aspects and can be customized as per patient’s requirement like overall size, tip angle or width, bridge gap and more. Sometimes a second surgery is also recommended, if results are not satisfactory.

Risks of Facial Surgery –

One of the biggest fears of the patients undergoing facial surgery is scarring. Since the whole purpose of facial surgery is the look, scars will undoubtedly beat it. Next is nerve damage which can result in temporary paralysis. And in rare cases, excessive bleeding can also take place. Psychological effects cannot be ignored, and should be dealt with help of consultant.

Availability and Cost –

There are numerous hospitals and medical centers which provide facial surgery like Apollo Centers, Lilavati in Mumbai, VM Plastic surgery center. More than a hospital, one should search a skilled and experienced surgeon. In India, cost of facial surgery procedures is far less than foreign countries. And it depends on the hospital services and doctor you are appointing.

Facial Surgery covers all techniques of surgery that can add onto the beautification of your face and freshen up your appearance. The whole effect should be of reversing the clock, rather than artificial imposition or removal of skin fat or reshaping contour lines on face.