Endoscopic facelift: risks and benefits

Endoscopic facelift becomes a great opportunity for patients to look much younger than their years. This rejuvenation is especially important for those who, due to hereditary predisposition, have early wrinkles on the forehead and in the periorbital region, marionette wrinkles – all these imperfections add considerably to the visual age and make the face unattractive. The oval of the face can be corrected by the endoscopic method for those patients who, due to their age, do not yet need to remove excess sagging skin, and are also not ready for a long rehabilitation period, since the endoscopic facelift allows you to do without scars, hematomas and prolapse  hair in the incision area.

Facelift: endoscopic method and its benefits

Endoscopic facelift requires the clinic to have appropriate equipment and staff trained in the use of such equipment. It is very important that the surgeon performing the operation is properly qualified in  working with endoscopic equipment. When all these conditions are met, the endoscopic technique acquires many advantages over other methods of face oval correction, especially before the classic open facelift. These benefits are:

• Minimum tissue trauma as minimal incisions are made, which greatly reduces the risk of scarring and infection;
• preservation of blood and lymph flow in the tissues, minimal risk of damage to the nerve elements and impaired skin sensitivity in the operated area;
• no risk of hair loss along the incisions made in the area of ​​the scalp;
• good compatibility with other anti-aging measures (liposuction, blepharoplasty);
• quick recovery after surgery.

Indications for endoscopic facelift

Evaluation of indications for face oval correction and endoscopic facelift is based on the study of the quality of the patient's skin, the morphotype of facial aging, the patient's health status, and individual characteristics of the soft tissues of the face.

An endoscopic facelift may be recommended for patients without significant facial skin excess that can only be excised with an open facelift. For patients with baldness, an endoscopic facelift becomes the only possible way to correct the oval of the face, since the access for such a surgical intervention is made through very small incisions in the head or oral cavity, and the traces of these incisions are then not visible.

A direct indication for a facelift is overhanging eyebrows, deep wrinkles on the forehead, features of the location of soft tissues, giving the face a gloomy expression. The operation is most often performed under local anesthesia. But if a facelift is combined with blepharoplasty, neck lift, lipofilling, mentoplasty, then general anesthesia is used.

The result of an endoscopic facelift  getting rid of transverse and longitudinal wrinkles on the forehead and in the root of the nose, reducing the severity of "crow's feet"; in the eye area, a clear oval of the face, a significant rejuvenation of the appearance.