Facelift

In the ever-evolving field of aesthetic enhancements, the desire to achieve a youthful and rejuvenated look has driven the creation of innovative treatments. For those looking to avoid the complexities of surgery, the non-surgical facelift has emerged as a highly popular and effective alternative. But what exactly does this procedure involve, and how does it deliver such remarkable results? What is a Non-Surgical Facelift? A non-surgical facelift is an array of minimally invasive treatments designed to rejuvenate and enhance your facial appearance. Unlike traditional facelifts, which require surgical intervention, these procedures use advanced technologies to lift, tighten, and smooth the skin. The goal is to achieve a youthful, refreshed look with minimal downtime, making non-surgical facelifts an attractive option for many individuals. Popular Non-Surgical Facelift Techniques Dermal Fillers: Dermal fillers are injectable substances used to restore volume and fullness to the face. Common areas treated with fillers include the cheeks, under-eye hollows, lips, and nasolabial folds. Fillers like hyaluronic acid plump up the skin, reducing wrinkles and creating a smoother contour. Botox: Botox is a neurotoxin that temporarily paralyzes the muscles responsible for dynamic wrinkles, such as frown lines, crow’s feet, and forehead creases. By relaxing these muscles, Botox helps in smoothing out wrinkles, resulting in a more relaxed and youthful expression. Ultherapy: Ultherapy uses focused ultrasound energy to target the deeper layers of the skin, stimulating collagen production. This treatment is particularly effective for tightening and lifting the skin on the neck, chin, and brow, providing a natural lift without incisions. Laser Treatments: Laser treatments, including fractional laser and intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy, address various skin concerns such as wrinkles, sun damage, and uneven skin tone. These lasers penetrate the skin to promote collagen production and improve overall skin texture and appearance. Thread Lift: A thread lift involves the insertion of dissolvable threads under the skin to lift and tighten sagging areas. These threads stimulate collagen production as they dissolve, further enhancing the lifting effect over time. Advantages of a Non-Surgical Facelift Minimal Downtime Non-surgical facelifts are perfect for those with busy lives, as they typically require minimal downtime. Most procedures allow you to return to your normal activities almost immediately. Lower Risk These procedures are much safer compared to traditional surgery. With no incisions, there’s no risk of scarring, and the chances of complications are significantly lower. Natural-Looking Results Non-surgical facelifts aim to subtly enhance your features, ensuring a more youthful appearance without making drastic changes to your look. Customizable Treatments Non-surgical facelifts can be tailored to your specific needs, whether you require volume restoration, wrinkle reduction, or skin tightening. Each treatment plan is personalized to achieve the best results for you. Is a Non-Surgical Facelift Right for You? While non-surgical facelifts offer numerous benefits, they are not suitable for everyone. Individuals with significant skin laxity or those seeking dramatic changes may still require surgical intervention for optimal results. Consulting with a qualified aesthetic professional is essential to determine the best approach for your unique needs. Non-surgical facelifts are a remarkable advancement in the field of aesthetic treatments, providing a safe and effective way to revitalize your appearance without the need for invasive surgery. With a variety of techniques available, each targeting different signs of aging, there’s a solution for everyone seeking to enhance their look. If you’re considering a non-surgical facelift, consult with a trusted specialist to find the best approach for you. Embrace the opportunity to discover a more youthful and refreshed version of yourself with these innovative treatments

There’s a reason the facelift is so widely known as the procedure that most successfully turns back the clock. It can lift the features of the face, tighten skin, and fight the effects of gravity that come with the aging process. Dr. David Mashhadian at Rodeo Surgical Art is a true artist with the facelift, with a wealth of skill and experience to draw upon for results you can’t help but love, all while minimizing recovery times. You’ll be looking your best and most youthful in no time at all.   How Does a Facelift Work? Facelift surgery, or rhytidectomy, is about more than tightening the skin. This procedure remodels the face’s delicate anatomical features, which are part of the SMAS layer, the foundation of facial structure and support. By repositioning and reducing your fat pads, repositioning muscles that may have loosened with time, and removing excess lax skin, Dr. Mashhadian can refresh your appearance for natural results that emphasize your most striking features. The incisions are cleverly camouflaged in your hairline or in the natural creases around your ears. Am I a Good Candidate? Facelifts are performed on men and women alike for a variety of reasons. Those who are most satisfied with their results are generally healthy patients who don’t smoke. While a facelift cannot prevent future signs of aging, it can turn back the starting line from which those signs show. How Long Does Facelift Recovery Take? One of the most common concerns about a rhytidectomy is recovery. While every patient heals at their own pace, Dr. Mashhadian has developed the Recovery EXL™ process, a proprietary combination of advanced surgical techniques and medications that can significantly reduce recovery times and pain. Many patients don’t need narcotic pain management and are on their feet within hours rather than days. Rejuvenation Day This can be an emotional day full of excitement and nervousness, but you’re in the hands of a world-class surgeon with Dr. Mashhadian. After your procedure, you may feel unsteady and drowsy. Having a loved one support you for the first 24 hours can ease you into recovery. You’ll have some swelling and bandages, and it’s best to sleep with your head elevated to improve circulation. Recovery Day 2-3 Rest is highly recommended because you need energy to heal. Listen to your body and get the rest you need. Achieving some mobility will help reduce the risk of blood clots, but be careful not to overdo it. Your bruising and swelling may be at its peak during this time. Recovery Day 4-6 Any discomfort from your facelift will be noticeably diminished by this time, and your swelling begins reducing. You may also feel more mobile. If you feel well enough, light cooking or housework is permitted. Recovery Week 2 You may feel well enough to return to work during this week, provided your job is not strenuous. Some bruising and swelling may still be visible, and you experience tingling, tightness, or numbness. This is normal. Light activities like short walks may help you feel better. If you have sutures, they may be removed at the beginning of this week. Recovery Weeks 3-4 The results of your facelift should really be taking shape now. You may still have mild swelling or tightness, but this is the point most patients feel like themselves again and adopt moderate exercise. Socially, your recovery becomes much less obvious, with your incisions beginning to fade from red to pink. After this point, your life should resemble your pre-facelift routine. While these timeframes are averages, Dr. Mashhadian’s Recovery EXL™ program can reduce recovery lengths, so you may feel better sooner and begin enjoying your new, youthful appearance that will last for years.

Having a surgical procedure like a facelift can seem like a daunting prospect, especially if you’re unsure how long the effects will keep you looking youthful and fresh. With Dr. David Mashhadian’s skill and highly-trained expertise, you can achieve a youthful, natural appearance that showcases your most stunning features without looking like you’ve had any work done. How Does a Facelift Work? As we get older, the collagen that gives our skin firm and youthful support begins to weaken and break down, repairing more slowly and with fewer fibers in the support network. As a result, the structures that make up the face—the underlying muscles in the superficial musculoaponeurotic system, the SMAS layer, and the fat pads that round out our facial volume—succumb to gravity. We see the development of jowls, loss of volume in the cheeks, deepening folds around the mouth, and loose, “crepey” skin of the neck. A facelift, or rhytidectomy, at Rodeo Surgical Art addresses all these facial structures to achieve youthful, natural results. Modern-day facelifts are about more than tightening the skin. Dr. Mashhadian will create incisions in discreet locations for maximum camouflage, typically around the ears and near the hairline behind them, to access the SMAS layer and your adipose pads. With his exceptional talent and eye for detail, Dr. Mashhadian will then reposition and anchor your muscles into place, correcting age-related shifting. Next, he’ll sculpt fatty tissues and remove any excess to restore lost volume to areas like your cheeks and around your mouth. Finally, he’ll redrape your skin into a more youthful position, remove any excess, and close your incisions. This leaves your features smooth, properly balanced, and remarkably young, no matter your age. In some cases, a neck lift is a perfect complement to a facelift for an overall youthful rejuvenation. Am I a Good Candidate? It’s relatively common for people in their 40s-60s to begin considering having a facelift, and men and women alike have benefited from Dr. Mashhadian’s expertise and talent with the procedure. If you’re unhappy with your facial contours, have noticeable sagging and skin laxity, and desire more definition in your cheeks and jawline, schedule a consultation with Dr. Mashhadian to determine if a facelift is the procedure most suited for you. What is the Facelift Procedure Like? Every patient’s facial anatomy is unique, and so each facelift Dr. Mashhadian performs is designed to erase the signs of aging in ways that most benefit you, and he employs techniques that minimize tissue trauma and maximize patient comfort. There are no cookie-cutter facelifts at Rodeo Surgical Art. Each facelift Dr. Mashhadian performs is conducted in our state-of-the-art surgical suite with a talented and cohesive team of experts and takes 2-4 hours to complete. You’ll be able to return to the comfort of your own home the day of your facelift, and with Dr. Mashhadian’s Recovery EXL™ techniques, your recovery time will be as easy as we can make it. Many of our past facelift recipients didn’t even require narcotic pain medication as part of their recovery process, such is the effectiveness of Recovery EXL™. What are the Benefits of a Facelift? You can address multiple signs of aging in a single procedure. Age accumulates in multiple ways, so why wouldn’t you tackle it from multiple angles? Dr. Mashhadian can restore youth with many facelift techniques in a single procedure. Facelifts are appropriate for almost any age. Not every patient is mentally ready for a facelift in their 40s. That’s okay because the techniques Dr. Mashhadian has perfected can be adjusted for each patient’s degree of skin laxity, tissue shifting, and overall health. Pair your facelift with other procedures, such as Renuvion® skin tightening for a better, more complete youthful makeover. How Long Does a Facelift Last? There is no cosmetic enhancement that can entirely prevent aging, but a facelift turns back time, so you appear years younger than what’s on your birth certificate. In this, your facelift can keep you looking youthful for up to 10 years before those signs begin to return.

Much of today’s non-invasive cosmetic enhancement procedures revolve around avoiding a facelift. However, having a facelift can solve a combination of aging concerns in one fell swoop. Dr. David Mashhadian is one of Beverly Hills premiere facelift experts, so having your facelift at Rodeo Surgical Art can give you natural, uncompromisingly beautiful results.   How Does a Facelift Work? Today’s facelifts are about so much more than tightening the skin. Aging affects multiple layers of tissue, including the skin, the fatty cushion that gives us our youthful facial volume, and the underlying layer of muscle called the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS). By manipulating these layers of tissues, Dr. Mashhadian can remodel your facial contours by restoring the position of the muscle and adipose pads. He can also reduce the size of the fat pads and then remove excess skin for a natural result that restores your youth and highlights your best features. Because of Dr. Mashhadian’s meticulous care with the location of the incisions and his proprietary combination of surgical techniques and medications called Recovery EXL™, many previous facelift patients of Rodeo Surgical Art are surprised with how easy their recovery is. Am I a Good Candidate for a Facelift? While most facelift patients fall in the 50s-60s age range, there’s no minimum or maximum age limit to undergo this procedure. If you’re concerned about the contours of your jawline and neck, have jowls or deepening facial folds around your mouth, have lost or shifting volume in your mid-face, or are worried about wrinkles, it may be time to consider a facelift. Dr. Mashhadian can detail what a facelift can do to improve your unique features during your complimentary consultation. 7 Benefits of a Facelift at Rodeo Surgical Art 1. Your facelift at Rodeo Surgical Art reverses many signs of age in one procedure. Instead of having separate, less invasive skin tightening, volume restoration, and facial contouring procedures, your facelift can accomplish all of these things at one time. In this way, you’ll experience less overall downtime during a single recovery than perhaps you would experience with multiple spread-out procedures. 2. A facelift sculpts your neck and jawline and reduces your double chin. During the discussions about your desired facial contour, Dr. Mashhadian will use his critically aesthetic eye and extensive experience to guide you. Together you can develop a personalized facelift treatment that will flatter your best features and give you the jaw and neckline you want—no more double chin or crepey skin for the dreaded “turkey neck” effect. 3. Men and women alike can have a facelift. As an expert in the facial anatomy of both men and women, Dr. Mashhadian can reverse years off your appearance no matter your gender. Plastic surgery is not just for women, and in modern times, more men than ever are allowing themselves the investment in improving their appearance. Having a surgeon of Dr. Mashhadian’s caliber will ensure your results are flattering to you as an individual rather than a cookie-cutter template of attractiveness. 4. Facelifts can improve the appearance of the patient at virtually every age. Dr. Mashhadian has successfully performed facelifts on patients in their 70s or even 80s to improve their confidence and enhance their attractive appearance. As long as you’re in general good health to handle the anesthesia required for the procedure, you can benefit from a facelift. 5. Your facelift is personal to you. Dr. Mashhadian doesn’t perform a standard facelift. He assesses every patient’s unique facial features and structure and recommends the techniques that will most improve that individual’s appearance. There are so many ways to highlight beauty, Dr. Mashhadian doesn’t limit himself—or you—to a single set of surgical steps. 6. These are not the facelifts of decades past. Facelifts have come a long way in precision and technique to improve appearances and prolong youthful features. Dr. Mashhadian’s skills result in an appearance that fits the essence of who you are. There are no overly-stretched or “windswept” results. 7. Results last longer than less invasive procedures. Sure, dermal fillers can restore lost volume in cheeks, under the eyes, and in the temples. Laser energy can tighten skin. Neurotoxins can temporarily pause muscle movement that causes wrinkles. But these are not long-term solutions like a facelift. You can save yourself money and lose confidence in the long run by treating the source of the signs of aging—your SMAS layer and the tissues that have migrated due to gravity. And Dr. Mashhadian and the team at Rodeo Surgical Art can help!