According to a 2009 statistics report by the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, ten million cosmetic procedures were performed in the United States. All across the country women and men trust their faces to skilled surgeons specializing in areas such as face lifts, to achieve some of the best technological results. On the other hand, after an arduous search no documents were found to support the idea that a vast majority of Americans enjoy every aspect of the aging process, especially what it has done to their identity - the face. Starting in our 30’s and increasing in severity with the passing years - heredity, prolonged stress, sun exposure, environmental pollutants, gravity, and smoking can combine to slowly steal youth from the face and expressions. So, instead of pushing loose skin and wrinkles around in a mirror, a face lift can give back up to ten years of what was once taken from your appearance with an outcome lasting just as many years.

Due to the deterioration of ligaments and gradual loss of natural collagen and shifts in natural fat deposits, the face begins to take on a droopy faA§ade. The face is a complicated structure of independent muscular pockets. That is why it is so important to find a board certified plastic surgeon with at least three years of specialized training in an array of facial procedures including the face lift. The doctor can help you gain back the look you desire by disguising incisions around the ear and beyond the hairline to smooth and tighten the skin that once lay in creases and folds sagging your face and neck. The best place to service your delicate facial structure is a plastic surgery center where you can be sure the facility is accredited to standards of excellence. Before and after your procedure you will be in the hands of caring professionals who want to see you get the best out of your entire surgery experience.

That is why during your initial consultation your surgeon will inform you about the two major types of face lifts; that is, the difference between the surgical and non-surgical offerings. The predominately outpatient surgical option is a basic upward tissue repositioning; or, he may suggest a mini-lift, also known as the “weekend lift” providing the shortest surgical recovery time. However, the briefest healing time with minimal scaring comes with advances in non-surgical procedures. Injectables such as Botox are included in this area along with laser resurfacing. In addition to surgical and non-surgical options, your surgeon may present possible procedural compliments including the eyelift, brow lift, neck lift, nose job, facial implants, liposuction and fat transfer to help you receive optimal presentation in as little as two days but up to two weeks.

After narrowing down your decision, scheduling your appointment, and occasionally after all is said and done there can be a stigma associated with your new appearance. Concern as to whether your closest family and friends will recognize you can be put to rest once you’ve reviewed the smooth and natural looking results of your very well trained surgeon. The rejuvenation of how you see and present yourself can be provided with an array of procedures designed for the intricacies of the facial structure to meet your delicate beauty needs.

The loss of a dramatic amount of weight is very exciting and rewarding. You feel much healthier and probably much happier. Whether you have achieved your new and improved diet and exercise by one or more surgical procedures like liposuction or gastric bypass is a different matter.

Fortunately modern technology and plastic surgery has made it possible for you to cut and strengthen your skin to enhance and complement your weight loss joy. The most popular surgeries after serious amount of weight loss are the arm lifts and thigh lifts.

An arm lift, also known as Brachioplasty is a procedure to get rid of extra, lying on the skin of your arm. To perform this procedure, a plastic surgeon will first give you a general anesthetic or a sedative intravenously or general anesthesia. Then he or she will make an incision along the inside of your arm from the armpit to the elbow. The incision can also be made at the rear of the arm. If you feel that you need to get rid of the extra fat from your arms, your surgeon can aspire to liposuction the excess at this point. The plastic surgeon then reshapes the tissue tightens and the permanent sutures. He or she removes excess skin of the arm and extends from the skin remains to sew it back up.

An arm lift can be performed in a facility or outside of a hospital and it usually takes an hour or two to complete. Dressings and stitches will be removed after a few days and you can be back to work or other normal activities (excluding exercise) in a week. The recovery of an arm lift includes swelling and bruising and pain that can be managed with medications. The main negative side effects of an arm lift is the scar on his arm. You just have to decide if you prefer to have stretched his arms with a long scar or flabby arms without scar.

A thigh lift can help you get rid of the loose and dimpled skin on your thighs. There are three different types of leg lifts. These include the lift on the areas of the inner thigh, the thigh bilateral and median thigh. They are all slightly different focus areas and differences in the precise positioning and size of the incision. In general, however, a lift is performed as a thigh incision is made between the thigh and the pubic area. Some excess skin (and fat through liposuction, if desired) is excised and the rest is from the skin to respond to and the incision is sewn together. All lifts are intended to reshape the leg and reduce the appearance of cellulite and sagging skin.

The recovery of a thigh lift is very similar to lift an arm, but with slower recovery. It takes usually two weeks before, you can return to work and three weeks before the swelling really starts to calm down. May you find uncomfortable to sit or lay on his back for some time. When you heal, there will be scars, but usually they are easily hidden by rows of swimsuits or sub-lines.

“Out with the old and in with the new!” speaks volumes in the seductive world of beauty. What’s out? Face lifts! Why are they out? Because the Y Lift is in. The search for the fountain of youth is never ending and, truth be told, we’ve all tried many different things to achieve a more youthful appearance. Most of the information available is too technical to understand and the simplest questions are often left unanswered. Who? What? Where? When? And why? I recently met Dr. Yan Trokel, creator and founder of the Y Lift, and he blew me away with the basics of what this revolutionary procedure is, how it is performed and how the pros heavily outweigh cons.

So who is Dr. Yan Trokel? Beyond being a surgeon specializing in cosmetic facial surgery, Trokel is also the founder and director of The YAN Center for corrective and cosmetic surgery. Little did I know that in the short time we discussed the Y Lift, he easily could have performed it on me and possibility someone else in the office. Afterwards we would simply return to our hectic work day without anyone being abler to tell that we had any sort of procedure performed-except for the fact that we’d look remarkably younger.

The Y Lift gets its name from the youthful facial contours that are shaped like letter “Y”. To make me better understand he traced a letter Y on my face with his fingers as he explained. The center point of the Y would be the crevice between your upper lip and the tip of your nose. Now, imagine the arms lying in the contours of your cheeks and the Y’s standing leg ending at the point of your chin. The face appears wide at the top in the eye and cheekbone region and then narrows to a point at the chin. As we age the arms of the Y shape begin to widen steadily downward. As this widening focus, the youthful shape of the face begins to disappear. The Y Lift itself is a new, proven, non-invasive procedure that resources and improves the appearance of the face from the forehead to the eyes, to the jaw line and even the neck, more effectively and with more natural-looking results than now-outdated facelift.

Trokel explained that the face is like a balloon. Over time as the balloon deflates or loses volume, the surface that was once taut becomes misshapen, wrinkled and sunken. The traditional solution would be to remove and tighten excess skin, which is what occurs during a traditional facelift, but instead with the Y Lift you can replenish lost volume and restore beautiful and youthful facial contours.

To do this, Trokel created and patented the instruments to restore the foundation of face. The procedure entails strategically marking and carefully mapping out the shape of the lift. Trokel’s proprietary specialized instrument is utilized to make a tiny needle opening at the top of the cheek bone and then inserted beneath the skin to instantly lift the muscles, fascia and fat underlying the skin. This is held in its new position with a hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring substance in the skin that helps to add volume and hydration. The results are immediate with no bruising, swelling or downtime; no scalpels, stitches or anesthesia required. Trokel showed me many before and after photos of patients, and the range of age is what made me ask, “When should one decide to have a Y Lift?” I was amazed to discover that this is not only for the old. The Y Lift has many benefits for adults of all ages. The Y Lift is best used to restore facial symmetry blushed, brighten and accentuate the eyes and lift and firm the skin including the neck area.