Brow Lift– Explanations : Doctor POIGNONEC plastic surgeon in Paris
What happens during the operation of the brow lift?
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What is the facelift?
The forehead lift or brow endoscopic « mini lift » in Paris. This surgery is performed on an outpatient basis in the operating in Paris. Duration of the operation for a facelift « model » which covers the upper part of the face – less than 1 hour, under local anesthesia.
The brow to rejuvenate the upper third of the face; It goes back the front, so the eyebrows, while smoothing and brightening the look. These interventions have become rarer since the arrival of the botulinum toxin, non-surgical alternative to surgery.
I have frontal horizontal wrinkles and lowered eyebrows, can I use this type of operation?
Persons coming to inflate the upper part of the eyelids, frontal horizontal wrinkles more marked and lowered eyebrows, are good candidates for this kind of intervention. However, younger patients with a low position of the eyes causing a tired look, or even the wrinkles of the lion causing a severe look, can see their transformed face.
Can we associate a frontal facelift with another intervention?
The brow makes the look younger and more alert, it does not remove wrinkles and it does not make your completely smooth forehead, without expressions. It may be accompanied by an intervention on the eyelids, rhinoplasty, cervico-facial or temporal facelift.
How to prepare for surgery from the front?
- An initial consultation with your surgeon will determine if you are a good candidate for a brow.
- If your forehead is very high, if you have a low density of hair, or if you are balding, will propose you another type of intervention for a similar result.
- Indeed, this operation increases the front and back off the line the hair, les scars would be visible with hair thinning and low-volume.
- Allow 10 days to two weeks of leave before you can resume normal activity.
- A preoperative assessment is done in accordance with the regulations and an anesthetist must be seen at least 48 hours before the D-Day.
- Any medication containing aspirin should be taken within 10 days of the operation. You will need to be fasting for 6 hours before the procedure.
- It takes nothing to drink or eat.
What is the price of a brow lift?
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Is there a different process than the traditional method?
The traditional method is to make an incision inside the line at the top of the head or hair from one ear to the other, in the scalp. The skin is redraped and repositioned the brows. The excess is removed, and the wound is closed. Another process allows to 4 or 6 small incisions in the hair, an endoscope connected to a camera is introduced in order to see the different structures of the forehead to change. The procedure is less invasive level of scars and facilitates recovery.
What are the consequences of the intervention?
- If your hospitalization has been decided on an outpatient basis, you come the same day after a few hours of surveillance. Otherwise, you will leave the next morning. Bandages are removed in the following 2 days.
- If there is pain, they calmed by analgesics.
- A swelling of the forehead, or eyelids, is likely the first 15 days. The Blues may be masked by make-up.
- You will feel a tension of the forehead, temples and the eyelids, numbness of the scalp, sometimes itchy, all lasting a few months before disappearing.
- With the method of endoscopy, these disadvantages are less frequent but you’ll notice small folds at the level of the incisions, which will disappear during the following week.
What are the aftercare of the forehead lift?
- A daily shampoo will be mandatory as soon as you return home.
- You will need to rest and avoid any violent effort.
- You can return to normal social and economic life after, on average, 10 days. A period of 3 to 6 months is necessary to enjoy the final result.
A daily shampoo will be mandatory as soon as you return home.
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What are the risks of the forehead lift?
Mask lift allows a morphological transformation which changes the axis of the eyes and the shape of the cheekbones. Here, we act on the bone by reshaping the cheekbones, or the orbital upper arch, by grinding, or even by adding bone grafts or by changing the shape of the eyes (almond-shaped eyes). Postoperative recovery is longer, the morphological transformations must be perceived by the patient so that he is not disappointed with the result.
Fortunately, the real complications are exceptional as a result of a forehead lift in the rules. In practice, the vast majority of the intervention happens without any problem, and patients are fully satisfied with their result.
So far, and despite their rarity, you must be informed of the possible complications :
- Bruises : most of the time without gravity, they can justify to be evacuated if they are too important. Should not be confused with the bruises the which are normal after surgery.
- Infection : exceptional when the operation is performed under normal conditions of asepsis. She is always local and never General.
- Complications such as scarring abnormalities, skin necrosis, or the localized alopecia (hair loss) are more rare and especially much more discreet than in a classic fronto-temporal lift due to the limited size of the incisions. However, their risk is increased by smoking intoxication.
- Nerve damage : they can sometimes be some sensory branches and then be responsible for a certain insensitivity and the forehead or scalp itching, which eventually subside after a few months. Paralysis of the motor front branch is much rarer and is fortunately only temporary in most of the cases described.
Risks related to the medical act :
The forehead lift well that for essentially aesthetic motivations, remains no less a real surgical procedure, which implies risks associated with any medical procedure, as minimal as is.
- A hematoma requiring a quick evacuation.
- A localized alopecia is rare and most often temporary
- The infection is exceptional when the operation is performed under normal conditions of asepsis.
- Nerve damage, in particular the lesion or the stretching of the temporal branch of the nerve, facial, likely to result in paresis can meet, but the recovery takes place, usually within a few months.
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Mis à jour le: 19 May 2017 [MàJ]