Several factors go into determining the final price of a facelift, including the surgeon’s experience, the length and complexity of the procedure, and whether you need any additional treatments. Our mini-facelifts start at around $11,000. Full facelifts typically range from $15,000-20,000. More comprehensive facial rejuvenation packages (adding procedures like a midface lift, browlift, and eyelids) start at about $22,000.
During your consultation, we’ll be able to tell you exactly how much your facelift procedure is going to cost. You can also take a look at the estimated pricings of our facial procedures by clicking on this link: Plastic Surgery Pricing & Cost in Tijuana
A facelift is a surgical procedure to improve the appearance of the lower face and the neck. There are a number of ways to perform a facelift but all involve some combination of techniques to tighten and move the skin and deeper tissues upwards and backwards. This reverses the gradual descent of these tissues that occurs as we age.
It's a good idea to minimize talking for 3-4 days after a facelift. The facial motion will occasionally lead to small blood clots under the skin (hematomas) at the corners of the mouth.
Women and men who have begun to notice the signs of
facial sagging are candidates for a facelift. The
typical signs include jowls along the jaw line and loose
skin in the neck. The creases that run from the nostrils
to the corners of the mouth (nasolabial folds) may
deepen. More subtle is a gradual change in the shape of
the face. This occurs as the tissue pads that cover the
cheekbones slowly slip downward into the lower cheeks.
The cheekbones appear bonier and less prominent while
the lower face looks heavier and tired. Over time the
face appears less angular and more squared and
flattened.
The age at which these changes
occur will vary depending on your skin type, bone
structure, health, weight, and other factors. In most
people they will start to show sometime in their
forties. Facelifts are typically performed in men and
women in their forties and fifties though we have
treated patients from the early thirties to the late
seventies.
Facelifts are cosmetic procedures. It would be very unusual for an insurer to cover this procedure.
The exact location of our facelift scars will vary
somewhat from patient to patient depending on the
individual anatomy and the specific techniques we use.
Most commonly, the main scar hugs the front of the ear,
curves underneath the earlobe, runs upward immediately
behind the ear, and then crosses into the hairline where
it travels for a variable distance. Scars in these
locations tend to heal well in most patients and are
often difficult to discern.
We frequently
recontour the cheeks using a midface resuspension. The
scars for this procedure are located inside the mouth
and behind the hairline on the temples.
Most patients will show signs of aging in multiple areas
of the face. It is not uncommon for us to perform a
combination of procedures that may include:
-
Facelift
- Midface lift
- Browlift or
endoscopic browlift
- Eyelid surgery
- Fat
injections
- Face and/or neck liposuction
-
Skin resurfacing
Though everyone’s response to pain is different, most patients do not find facelifts particularly painful. The discomfort is usually short-lived and well-controlled with oral pain medications.
Most types of exercise can be restarted four weeks after a facelift. Performing physically strenuous activities earlier than this can impair healing.
Most patients can resume driving one week after a facelift.
When can I return to work after a facelift? Facelifts rarely produce much postoperative pain and most patients will feel well enough to return to work in several days. Appearance is usually the limiting factor governing return to work. All facelifts produce some degree of swelling and bruising. Depending on the techniques used, most patients will appear reasonably normal 2-3 weeks after surgery. When you feel comfortable returning to work will depend on the nature of your job and your personal comfort level.
Your facelift will be performed under general anesthesia (i.e. you will be asleep). We use only board-certified physician anesthesiologists.
We perform our facelifts at a JCAHO-certified ambulatory surgery center.
With most facelifts, the skin and/or deeper facial
tissue are tightened by pulling them backward toward the
ears. Though these techniques are effective, the
required tension tends to flatten the cheeks and can
produce an unnatural appearance if overdone.
Instead
of tightening the cheeks, we internally lift them in a
more vertical direction. This restores a more youthful
volume and shape without creating a tight, stretched
appearance.
