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 The sphere
of plastic surgery is always improved the techniques and approaches applied are
developed to comply with requirements of people. The people get smarter and
more requiring and what they require from plastic surgeon to ensure, on the
whole? First, the quality plastic surgery result should be ensured with the
purpose to look several years younger than a customer does before the
procedure. Second, the plastic surgeon must minimize the risk of possible
complications to zero. Third, to ensure the least invasiveness of the chemical
procedure and absence of scars. Yet, the plastic facelift with the help of
endoscopic equipment solves these problems.
This technique
of surgery is applied when the upper and middle-third of the face is to be corrected
when soft tissue sag due to the ageing processes and gravity which results in
occurring of clear cross-cut frontal and inter-brow wrinkles, ptosis of the
upper and lower eyelids, bags under the
eyes, sagging cheeks, irregular face contour and other defects.
When the endoscopic
facelift is done, the skin is dissected in the hairy area of the head, as a
rule and one centimeter off the frontal hair line. The finest endoscopic probe is
inserted into the incision with a tiny video camera which allows the specialist
evaluating the vessel location, nerves and other structures to the finest
details. This is a good technique to avoid disturbing the vessels and perform
all the required procedures with the extremely high precision. The surgery is done
to dissect the soft tissues, shift them to above and fix in the area of new
location.
Owing to the
endoscopic camera such excision is done at the deepest level along the periosteum,
the thick connective tissue coating that covers the bone elements. Saying in
other words, a surgeon is able to work with the whole mass of soft tissue. Thanks
to that, the length of section, where the endoscopic probe is inserted in, is
not longer than one and a half centimeters.
Moreover, the
detachment on the level of the periosteum allows keeping the structure of
facial tissues unchanged as well as ensuring the integrity of vessels and nerve
fibers. This means that the probability and intensity of such complications as
bleeding, haematoma, edema, disturbance of innervations and sensitivity of
particular parts get to the minimal extent, small post-operation scars under
the hair strongly increase the aesthetics of the endoscopic facelift.
Though one should
not forget that this procedure falls under the category of surgical interventions
and may bring the same complications as all surgeries as contamination of the
wound, inflammation, purulence, wound disruption, disturbance of the
sensitivity in the area of surgery, sometimes the disturbance of the hair
growth in the place. With the purpose to decrease the risk of occurrence of
these and those complications one should be prepared to the endoscopic facelift
prior to the surgery.
So, with the
aim to accelerate the healing and reduction processes in the operated skin, one
should give up smoking three to four weeks before the procedure since the
smoking can worsen the blood supply to tissues. Besides, one should consult
with the doctor on medications administered including those purchased free from
prescription since some of them can aggravate the regenerative ability of
cells. Also with the purpose to avoid the expressed side effects, the patient
is good to be healthy and when the doctor recommends some additional diagnostic
analysis, one should do follow the advice.
The surgical
procedure lasts for some two hours under the local or general anesthesia and
during the post-operation period the patient is observed by within two to three
days. Then the patient is discharged though the sutures are removed a week
after the plastic surgery. Possible small edemas and haematoma go away in the
coming days.
Contraindications
to the endoscopic facelift include the chronic dermatological diseases, fresh
wounds, too greasy skin, excessive mass of facial soft tissues as well as
significant decrease of elasticity of the skin.
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