5. Eyelid Surgery

Eyelid surgery is medically known as Blepharoplasty. The most prominent feature on a person is the face and often the eyes are the most distinctive. Your eyes can give away if you are feeling happy, tired, sad, or stressed out.

A very subtle change in the eyelids can create a massive change in your outward appearance. The impact this surgery has on how people react to you is one of the reasons why eyelid surgery is becoming a very popular cosmetic surgery procedure.

Using different techniques a cosmetic surgeon can remove excess eyelid skin, remove pockets of bulging fat, and remove under eye bags. The cosmetic surgeon can repair torn or damaged muscles provide a more youthful lower eyelid contour. In certain cases removing upper eyelid skin or repairing the eyelid muscles can even improve vision or the functionality of the eyes.

Eyelid surgery can be carried out on any age person so long as they are medically and emotionally suitable. It is most common after the age of 40.

surgery can remove excess skin, but will not change the quality of the skin itself. For lines and wrinkles, a chemical peel or laser treatment may also be performed. Eyelid surgery does not prevent crow's feet or frowning but injections of Botox may help.

6. Face Lifts

The face suffers in many ways. From the aging process, to gravity, sun exposure, muscle contractions, poor diet, smoking and genetics the face changes over the years.

Sagging of the cheeks causes hollowness under the eyes and jowls along the jaw line. Loss of elasticity in the skin leads to loose, wrinkled skin on the face and neck, and deepening of the lines that run from the nose to the lips or from the nose all the way to the chin. Drooping muscles and fat pockets lead to bulges and depressions in places you never had when younger.

A facelift carried out by a skilled and experienced cosmetic surgeon can remedy most, if not all of these concerns. The modern face lift can turn back time, rather than create the pulled unsubtle look in which early facelifts resulted.

Face lifts are not usually performed until the 40s, 50s, and sometimes beyond. As a maintenance measure people in their 30s or 40s may have a mini facelift for minor corrections. In most cases, a facelift can take 5 or 10 years off of your age.

Generally, a face lift can remove excess skin, reposition sagging muscles, and eliminate fatty deposits. It can smooth the jaw and neckline, lift the cheeks, and reduce lines between the nose and mouth. There are a variety of techniques that can be used depending on your individual circumstances and the surgeon's preferences.

A facelift does not correct problems around the eyes or forehead, and some people need a more extensive neck lift to address issues of aging and contour of the neck area. While a face lift can soften the lines between nose and mouth it will not reduce them completely. The lines around the lips or around the mouth itself will not be addressed. Although the facelift will remove excess skin it will not change the quality of the skin itself.

For these reasons, a facelift is often combined with other surgical and non-surgical procedures such as a brow lift, neck lift, eyelid surgery, dermal fillers, chemical peels and laser resurfacing.

7 Tummy Tuck

A tummy tuck, like liposuction, is not a weight loss procedure but is designed to treat a problem area that cannot be changed through diet and exercise. Results from this procedure can be life changing. Removing excess skin may mean clothes will fit better, you will feel a lot more comfortable and may have the confidence to do things you may have previously shied away from or wear certain styles of clothes you may have previosly avoided.

8. Rhinoplasty (Corrective Nose Surgery)

Corrective nose surgery otherwise known as Rhinoplasty is an operation performed to change the shape of the nose.

Rhinoplasty may be required to alter the appearance caused by an injury, correction of a congenital deformity, or to simply improve the appearance of a normal nose.

Corrective nose surgery can improve a crooked nose, nasal hump, wide nasal bridge, wide nasal tip (often referred to as a bulbous nose), flaring nostrils, overly turned up nose, overly turned down nose and a pinched nasal tip.

Most cosmetic surgeons consider rhinoplasty to be the most complex cosmetic operation. This is based on the fact that the cosmetic surgeon has to combine aesthetic goals of the surgery with the critical structural concepts. Corrective nose surgery is not just about sculpting but also about architecture and support.

Incisions are generally placed inside the nostrils and frequently just above the lip in a way that leaves no visible scars after surgery. The surgeon reshapes the cartilage in the nose by cutting, suturing, and grafting cartilage pieces taken from inside the nose. When it is necessary the bone is reshaped by cutting and rasping.

At the time of the rhinoplasty additional nose procedures may be carried out for nasal airway correction. In certain cases the rhinoplasty may need to be complimented with a chin augmentation to balance the shape and size of the nose.

The most common risk of nose surgery is not meeting expectations. The difficulty is that a minor imperfection may not be equally acceptable to the surgeon and the patient. This may require a minor revision procedure to correct the problem. The most serious complication is a secondary deformity due to a structural problem that requires a revision rhinoplasty.

An expert nose re-shaping surgeon can largely avoid this type of complication. However because of the complexities of the cosmetic surgery an accepted revision rate ranges from 5% to 15% of cases. Although most are minor this could be very frustrating for the patient. Occasionally, a patient may be left with a restricted nasal airway. Rarely, nasal bleeding that requires medical intervention can occur up to 10 days after the operation as can prolonged bruising under the eyes which can last up to 6 weeks.


 

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