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Mini Face Lift in Salt Lake City

You may be asking yourself, “What is the best mini facelift procedure”? The Mini Lift is a quick and simple operation to perform. Unfortunately, these minimally invasive facelifts are ineffective and offer minimal, short-lived results.

History of the Mini-lift

The Mini Lift is also outdated. For example, Suzanne Noel, M.D. performed Mini Lifts in hotel rooms in Paris, France, over 100 years ago. Today, surgical centers aggressively market the Mini Lift as the latest technology under a variety of misleading titles, such as:

  • Lifestyle Lift
  • Lunch-hour Lift
  • Mini Lift
  • Quick Lift
  • S-Lift
  • String Lift
  • Thread Lift

Regardless of the marketing catchphrase, the Mini Lift is a century-old, outdated operation, and it shows. If you get any result from a Mini Lift, it will be gone within a few months.

Lasers and Chemical Peels

Lasers and chemical peels are another ineffective form of facial rejuvenation. While there are situations where a laser burn or chemical peel may be effective, they cannot give you the long-lasting and youthful result of a state-of-the-art surgical facelift. Furthermore, a burn is not comfortable and takes a significant amount of time to heal. By comparison, when correctly done, a modern surgical facelift will heal faster and allow you to go out in public in two to three weeks.

Facelift Stigmata

Another important aspect of facelift surgery that you must consider is avoiding the telltale signs of having had a facelift. Examples of these “facelift stigmata” include:

  1. Unnecessary raising of the hairline with elimination of the sideburns.
  2. Tethering of the earlobes by eliminating the typical earlobe notch (pixie ears).
  3. Amputation or deformation of the tragus (the part of the ear that covers the ear canal).
  4. Elevation of the postauricular hairline

These and other deformities can leave you looking tight, stretched, and strange.

The Deep Plane Facelift

Fortunately, we can avoid all of these visible signs of facelift surgery. They only occur when your surgeon doesn’t know how to prevent them, isn’t adequately trained, or doesn’t take the time to do the facelift right.

At Fairbanks Plastic Surgery Center, we perform an advanced procedure called a “Deep Plane Facelift.” This procedure reaches into your face’s anatomic release zone. It allows us to predictably make you look twenty or more years younger without any signs of you having had a facelift. Instead, you’ll look like you did twenty years ago and continue looking great for many years to come.

So, in conclusion, what is the best mini facelift procedure? There’s no such thing.

Related links:

  1. Blepharoplasty—Eyelid Lift.
  2. Facelift (Deep Plane).
  3. Facial Implants.

See the following links for more information about Deep Plane Facelifts:

  1. What is a Deep Plane Facelift?: University of California San Francisco.
  2. Deep Plane Facelift: UNC Center for Facial Aesthetics.
  3. Facelift and Necklift: Stanford Medicine.
Diagram of a mini lift published in 1931.

Diagram of a mini lift published in 1931.

Suzanne Noel M.D. performing a mini-lift in a Paris hotel room in 1920.

Suzanne Noel M.D. performing a mini-lift in a Paris hotel room in 1920.