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Everything You Must Know About the Suture Lift

People often ask me what a suture lift is. There are many different types of suture lifts. There is an aphthous thread, which is small barbed wires giving a small lift. There are silhouette lifts and there is a suture lift which we have been practicing for some 15 years. It involves lifting the skin and pinning it to the ear cartilage. This gives a complete 100% lift with a similar result as one would get if they pushed their skin towards their ear.

What Is the “Lunchtime” Lift?

A lunchtime lift is a lift that can be performed within an hour. It is a misnomer as there is not such thing as a lunchtime lift, since patients will have to have some recovery. Lunchtime lifts can be done with sutures or with fillers such as the liquid filler of the dermis.

What Happens to the Loose Skin with a Suture Lift?

In much of the cases where we perform a suture lift, we do not remove any skin and there is a small fold in front of the ear. The amount of fold depends on the patient’s skin type. Those patients with thin skin and who are older have very little folding, whilst a younger person with thick skin may have a more prominent fold; this is often the case in male patients.

Of recent, we are also excising and removing the fold at the time of the surgery. The patient in this photograph had an excision of the skin at the same time as the suture lift.

How Is It Possible to Keep Cosmetic Surgery Secret?

This is one of the most interesting areas of cosmetic surgery. Many patients are having cosmetic surgery where there is a dramatic result and other people do not notice it. It is possible that other people are watching their own issues and not focusing clearly on what other people have. In the above photograph, this lady had a suture lift with excision of skin just 3 days ago. Amazingly, no one has noticed it including her husband who she has been married to for some 50 years.

Will I Get a Dramatic Result from a Suture Lift?

Most patients achieve a dramatic result when obtaining a suture lift at the Dr Lanzer Clinic. It can take years of the face, which is obviously one of the main reasons why patients obtain the procedure. Still, to understand the results you could obtain from the procedure better, we always advise coming in for a consultation with Dr Lanzer.

Dr Lanzer has years of experience with facelift procedures; this means he can predict some of the results that patients could obtain by choosing a certain procedure. So, if you do not know which results to expect, Dr Lanzer is the person to speak to.

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