Face lift with thread-lift, eyebrow lift, cat-eyes, neck lift
Until recently, facelift surgery was the only way to solve problems caused by facial skin laxity, such as jowls and drooping cheeks.
After all, while skin resurfacing treatments may help restore some degree of firmness, once loose skin was present, truly removing it could only be possible with a scalpel.
However, while the approach of relying on injectable compounds and skin resurfacing until facelift surgery is absolutely necessary work for many patients, not everyone is willing to have the surgery.
If you are in this group, you will be happy to know that thread lift, a noninvasive facial rejuvenation and facelift procedure, has been developed as a new type of procedure to fill this gap.
Thread lift is a type of procedure in which absorbable and self-dissolving surgical sutures are used to create a thin but visible “lift” in the skin. Instead of surgically removing the patient’s loose facial skin, it is placed on only parts of the face, suspending it.
This has the effect of slightly pulling back the skin and thus lifting and tightening the face. Besides being ideal for lifting skin, the threads fight aging in another way: by triggering the body’s “healing response” and causing the body to direct massive surges of collagen to the treated areas. This is important because of the vital role collagen plays in the aging process.
Collagen helps support “growth factors” that greatly affect the condition of our skin. In addition to being used for wound healing, collagen helps our skin stay strong, voluminous and supple. As we age, our bodies produce less and less collagen, which leads to an 80% reduction in skin thickness by age 70. This loss of volume and strength is a major factor in the formation of excess skin and wrinkles.
As the skin weakens, it can no longer adequately support the tissues underneath, meaning gravity pulls it down and stretches it. While signs of skin laxity are still mild, infusing facial skin with fresh collagen can help both reduce laxity (by thickening and hydrating the skin) and preventing it from getting worse (strengthening the skin).
In other words, this process provides a continuous and progressive rejuvenation for facial tissues. Patients who have thread lifts to stimulate collagen will notice a gradual improvement in their skin tone and firmness. With the threads in place, the body’s healing response will be constantly activated because the body will want to “heal” the threaded areas and remove the threads away. The body is biologically programmed to react this way when it senses any foreign object in the dermis. Fortunately, the patient will not feel any of these, as the threads placed under the skin during thread lift are very small. Most people can’t feel their strings at all after the skin around them has healed.
Thread lift, sometimes referred to as the “french thread”, uses absorbable, barbed surgical threads to provide a firmer, more youthful aesthetic appearance to the face and neck.
Thread lifting can be beneficial for both men and women who want to reduce facial wrinkles and premature jowl appearance. This procedure can also reduce the appearance of sagging skin as it gently pulls the skin tighter.