Subtle facial restoration utilizing photos from previous decades of life. #facelift #deepplane

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What does custom facial restoration include? First, we start with using photos from previous decades of the patient's life. This is our guide to subtle restoration to ensure the patient does not look like a different person after surgery. Their unique features are restored. This patient is undergoing a deep plane facelift with fat transfer, a deep neck lift with submandibular gland reduction, an u

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