Facelift Surgery: What Nobody Tells You Before You Book a Consultation
Let me be straight with you. Most patients who walk into my clinic at Aesthetic and Cosmetic Surgeons come in with two things: a phone full of before-and-after photos and a head full of half-truths picked up from the internet. I don't blame them. There is a lot of noise out there about facelift surgery — some of it good, a lot of it not. So in this article, I want to cut through that noise. No jargon. No scare tactics. Just a straightforward look at what a facelift actually is, who it's genuinely right for, and what the experience looks like — before, during, and after. What Is a Facelift, Really? A facelift — or rhytidectomy, if you want the clinical term — is a surgical procedure that addresses sagging skin, deep creases, and loss of facial volume in the lower face and neck. Think of it less like stretching a mask over your face and more like repositioning what gravity and time have slowly pulled downward. What it is NOT: a magic eraser. A facelift restores structure. It lift...