Modified Face Lift Technique for Asian Patients—Video Discussion by Alan Matarasso, MD

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In this video, Alan Matarasso, MD, discusses “Asian Face Lift with the Composite Face Lift Technique” by Wong, Hsieh, and Mendelson, which appears in the January 2022 issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Volume 149 Issue 1. Read it for FREE: https://bit.ly/AsianFaceLift

Deep-plane facelift

A deep-plane facelift lifts the skin, fat and SMAS as one flap after releasing the ligaments that hold the cheek down, instead of lifting skin and SMAS separately. It dates to Hamra's 1990 paper and is now the most-used facelift among surveyed facial plastic surgeons, though head-to-head evidence of longer-lasting results is limited.

The technique, its anatomy and the papers behind it