Facelift cosmetic surgery improves your facial appearance and makes you “look good for your age.” Looking many years younger is not necessarily the goal. Orange County’s Dr. Sikorski’s professional focus is that of restoring a natural, well cared for appearance that leaves you looking rested, energetic and healthy without changing the uniqueness of what makes you look like “you.” Older standardized surgical techniques that are not customized to the individual can actually create a generic appearance that is neither attractive nor unique.
At Natural Image OC, Dr. Sikorski uses her medical and fine arts training, always striving to provide her facelift patients in Orange County with results that enhance their true beauty naturally and do not make them look “done up.” If you are becoming self-conscious about the way your face appears, a facelift might be the right procedure to provide you with a more refreshed, youthful appearance, and to help you regain the confidence in your face that you may have lost.
What Can a Facelift Accomplish?
A facelift will improve the major negative aspects of aging, such as loosening of facial skin, folds, and creases around the nose and mouth. By tightening underlying structures and removing loose skin, Dr. Sikorski redefines the facial/neck structure while achieving a natural, non-stretched, non-surgically altered look. Improvements in visible signs of aging in the face and neck include:
- Reducing sagging in the mid-face;
- Removing creases and hollowed out skin below the lower eyelids;
- Eliminating deep creases along the nose and mouth;
- Repositioning or extracting fatty deposits of the face that have fallen or are misplaced;
- Getting rid of jowls that sag at the jawline as a result of loosened muscle tone; and
- Removing a double chin.
While a facelift will never stop the aging process, it can provide you with a more refreshed, energetic look for about 5 to 10 years.
Ideal Facelift Candidates
You are typically a good candidate for a facelift if you:
- Are 45 years or older and showing the signs of aging including deep facial creases, folds and sagging skin on their face and neck;
- Are in good general health;
- Are a non-smoker, as smoking can negatively impact both the surgery and recovery time;
- Have realistic expectation for the facelift; and
- Are in good psychological health.
Combining Facelift with Other Facial Procedures
In addition to providing facelift surgery, Dr. Sikorski often works with her Orange County facelift patients to add complimentary facial treatments to complete their enhanced look, including:
- Blepharoplasty, or an eyelift to tighten up sagging eyelids;
- A brow lift, to reduce creases in the forehead and lift drooping eyebrows;
- A neck lift, to tighten up loose and sagging skin to match your face’s more youthful appearance after a facelift; and
- The use of facial injectables and dermal fillers to fill in superficial fine lines and wrinkles throughout the face.
Improving the neck and forehead are often assumed to be part of a facelift procedure, but actually, procedures to lift the brow or tighten the neck can be, and often are, separate procedures. Most Orange County patients who choose to have facelift surgery also opt for neck lift surgery to enjoy a unified appearance.
Other Procedures
- Thermage Skin Tightening for mild skin laxity
- Mixto Fractional CO2 Laser Resurfacing
- Erbium Laser Resurfacing for full surface skin rejuvenation
- Buccal Fat Pad Removal
- Dermal Fillers
- Artefill ultra long lasting filler (permanent microspheres)
- Sculptra for volume restoration
- JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel for lip enhancement
- Restylane for wrinkles and lines
- Silikon droplets permanent fix for wrinkles and lip plumping
- Radiesse for deeper folds and nonsurgical cheek and chin augmentation.
Customizing Your Facelift Procedure
Facelift patients may choose between several facelift procedure options offered by Natural Image OC in Orange County to achieve their desired look.
Composite Facelift
A composite facelift is an excellent option for Orange County patients to select when aging is apparent throughout the entire face and neck. With a composite facelift, the neck, face, eyes, and brows are all addressed during one surgical procedure, providing you with a refreshed look.
SMAS Facelift
A SMAS facelift is the most popular face and neck lift combination procedure. With this facelift option, Orange County patients ages 45 and older have their skin smoothed out, as well as a tightening of the face’s Superficial Musculo-Aponeurotic System, or SMAS. After the face is corrected, the neck is tightened, so that loosened skin is removed.
Mid Facelift
A mid facelift is perfect for Orange County residents with sagging cheeks and drooping corners of the mouth, but otherwise, have a youthful-looking face and neck. With a mid facelift, the cheeks are tightened up, which removes the nasolabial folds of the mouth, too.
Active Lift™
Offered exclusively by Dr. Sikorski of Natural Image OC, the Active Lift is a less invasive facelift that is more like a mini lift. With the Active Lift, Orange County patients have loosened skin tightened and removed, as well as liposuction of fatty areas. The ActiveLift is perfect for facelift patients who do not yet need a full composite or SMAS facelift. An ActiveLift has a faster recovery time than traditional facelifts.