Most people are very familiar with the term "wrinkle removal", but are somewhat unfamiliar with "facelift". In fact, these two concepts are both related and different. Doctors tell everyone: There is a difference between wrinkle removal and facelift. The difference is that the former is a professional term and the latter is an image noun. What's more important is that the contents of the two are different: wrinkle removal includes traditional and modern wrinkle removal techniques, while facelift only represents the original, traditional wrinkle removal surgery method.
1. Plastic surgery and wrinkle removal methods
Which is better, wrinkle removal or facelift?
The aging of the human face and neck is a degenerative process of reduced elasticity, formation of wrinkles, and sagging. It is manifested as: reduced skin elasticity and deepening of various wrinkles (such as forehead lines, crow's feet, and nose wrinkles). labial grooves, etc.), sagging changes (such as brow and upper eyelid sagging, cheek sagging, gills, etc.). Due to sagging changes caused by gravity and degeneration, in addition to the skin, the important ones are the tissues and structures deep under the skin, such as fat, fascia and muscles. Therefore, wrinkle removal surgery should not only remove wrinkles, but mainly tighten various tissue structures. Westerners just call wrinkle removal surgery facelift).
The first generation of rhytidectomy used sneak separation under the skin, then cut off the excess skin and tightened the sutures. This is what people call a face lift, and it vividly illustrates the key points of the surgical operation. The plastic surgery community in developed countries has long abandoned the first generation of wrinkle removal because it is not enough to tighten the skin and it will recover after a period of time. The introduction of wrinkle removal in our country is late and the development is uneven, so it is not surprising that some units and individual doctors still use simple skin tightening, which they call "skin lift".
The second-generation wrinkle removal surgery is called the SMAS-Platysma muscle technique, which separates the skin flap, then tightens the SMAS-Platyma muscle flap upward, and then tightens the skin flap backward. The effect of this technique is two-way tightening, which not only tightens the surface skin, but also tightens the saggy fascia and muscles in the deep surface. In the 10 years from 1978 to 1988, there were thousands of foreign literature reports on the research results of the second generation of wrinkle removal. So far, SMAS-platysma rhytidectomy has become a safe and popular procedure. Many units in the country have carried out this project.
The third generation of wrinkle removal has only been reported in recent years and is called compound wrinkle removal. The surgery is highly invasive and complex, and has not yet been fully implemented in China, so I won’t go into details here.
The above knowledge about wrinkle removal surgery has clearly told readers: If you or your relatives and friends want to have wrinkle removal surgery, you should choose the second generation wrinkle removal surgery. How can one accurately predict that one will undergo a more advanced wrinkle removal surgery instead of a simple face lift?
2. Plastic surgery and wrinkle removal matters
1) Go to a regular plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery institution; 2) Understand whether the surgeon has undergone a long period of standardized plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery. Technical training; 3) Consult with doctors about wrinkle removal surgery techniques.
It is worth mentioning that although there are more advanced wrinkle removal technologies, it does not mean that you can achieve a state of "rejuvenation" after surgery. After rhytidectomy, you can never achieve the same clear-cut effects as those after rhinoplasty, rhinoplasty, and breast augmentation, that is, single eyelids turn into double eyelids. The flat bridge of the nose turned into a tall, pretty nose, and the flat chest turned into plump and round breasts. What's more, modern rhytidectomy has little or even no effect on certain areas (for example, nasolabial folds and vertical lines around the lips can be improved by other methods). Therefore, please be careful to prevent the original ignorance from turning into a tendency to be demanding and complaining.