Facelift California, US

Facial contouring is achieved by removing excess skin and fat through discretely placed incisions. Another component of facelift surgery is to address the lax facial muscles that are causing the skin to droop and sag. These muscles are tightened and sutured into a higher, more youthful-looking position. The incisions are then closed and the procedure is complete.

Our face is our most visible feature, one that through expression and appearance conveys what and how we feel. Facial aging includes a loss of skin elasticity and firmness, sagging tissue and wrinkles. These visible signs of aging can greatly impact how we feel about ourselves and how others see us. Even a person who is energetic and excited about life can appear tired or sad due to aging in the mid-face, jaw line and neck. The loss of youthful contours in these areas is due to a variety of factors including heredity, gravity, environmental conditions and stress.

A facelift,technically known as a rhytidectomy, is a surgical procedure performed to improve the most visible signs of aging. A successful facelift will eliminate excess fat, tighten muscles beneath the skin of the face and neck, and remove any loose or sagging skin. In many cases, this procedure is performed in conjunction with eyelid and/or forehead surgery. A facelift can make you look younger and healthier, and it may enhance your self-confidence as well.

Dermal fillers are substances injected just below the surface of your skin to replenish the supporting elements and it can fill in lines, reduce or eliminate wrinkles, replace soft-tissue volume loss, reduce hollows under your eyes, enhance lips, and raise scar depressions from the inside out restoring a more youthful appearance. At Shine Cosmetic Surgery, located in Los Angeles, California, patient safety and comfort is of utmost importance to Dr. Daniel H. Lin M.D. He is committed to staying current on all medical technology that is why he thoroughly researches and investigates new fillers until he is confident that they are appropriate to use on his patients. He understands that some people are not ready for cosmetic surgery and that is why he offers non-surgical procedures including dermal fillers.

Regardless of how committed you are when taking care of your face, premature wrinkles are an inevitable part of life. There are three types of wrinkles: dynamic, static, and wrinkle folds. Dynamic wrinkles are caused by the contraction of muscles that are attached to your overlying skin. Every time your muscle contracts, your skin bunches together forming lines between your muscles. The most common dynamic wrinkles form across your forehead, on your cheeks, near the outer corner of your eyes (crow’s feet), and between your eyebrows. Static wrinkles are a result of genetics, poor diet, environmental factors, smoking, sun damage, prolonged dynamic wrinkling, and lack of elasticity. Static wrinkles continue to be visible even after muscle contraction has stopped and that is why they are called “static.” The third type of wrinkle is called a wrinkle fold. The cause of this wrinkle is due to sagging of the underlying facial structures and the most common wrinkle folds are the deep grooves between the nose and mouth known as the naso-labial groove.

Facelift surgery, also called rhytidectomy, is used to counteract the effects of gravity and aging on the face. A facelift helps elevate the skin and deeper tissues of the face to improve the neck contour, lift the cheek, smooth the "jowls", and tighten up the jaw line. Facial wrinkling that occurs with age is also improved by the procedure. Additionally, an Orange County facelift will remove excess fat from the chin and tighten the neck skin. The goal is to take some of the years off of your face exposing a more youthful appearance.

Is injected into a muscle to produce its effect, but it doesn't actually do anything directly to the muscle itself. Unlike Orange County dermal fillers, it affects the nerves. For a muscle to work it needs a signal. That signal starts in the brain, goes down the spinal cord and out through the nerves. At the end of the nerve there is a connection to the muscle across a small gap. For the nerve to tell the muscle to work, a small amount of a chemical is released from the end of the nerve.

The treatment is a toxin derived from anaerobic bacterium Clostridium and it produces its effects by paralyzing the muscles that it is injected into.

As a world-class facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Torkian’s facelift technique provides a natural and refined result. In performing facelift surgery, Dr. Torkian’s objective is never to alter a patient’s appearance. Instead, he seeks to create a younger version of the same person by repositioning and tightening excess skin and soft tissue in the face.