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This is 6 weeks post-op. Deep plane face & neck lift + upper and lower blepharoplasties.Six weeks is early. There’s stil...
06/27/2026

This is 6 weeks post-op. Deep plane face & neck lift + upper and lower blepharoplasties.
Six weeks is early. There’s still minor residual swelling and her incision lines have minimal redness — both completely expected at this stage. The final result continues settling through month 6. What you’re seeing here is already a preview, not the finish line.
A few things worth noting in these photos:

— The neck. Platysmal banding gone. Cervicomental angle restored. That doesn’t happen with a skin-only lift.

— The jawline. No more jowling obscuring the mandibular border.

— The eyes. Upper and lower blepharoplasties opened the periorbital frame without changing the shape of her eye.
The deep plane works at the level of the SMAS — the muscle and fat layer beneath the skin. Repositioning that layer is what produces a natural result rather than a pulled one. The skin follows; it doesn’t do the work.
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06/26/2026

The last lip lift video blew up — here's the follow-up. Two main types, different problems:

Subnasal (bullhorn) lift: removes a strip under the nose to shorten a long upper lip and roll the pink into view. The workhorse, for lips that lengthened with age.

Corner lift: elevates the outer mouth corners that turn down and create a permanent tired/frowning look ("resting sad face").

A long lip needs subnasal. Downturned corners need a corner lift. Some need both. Getting the wrong one is the mistake — which is why an in-person assessment beats a price quote.

06/24/2026

Three "skin tightening" devices everyone lumps together. They're actually different:

Ultherapy — focused ultrasound, reaches deepest (only one FDA-cleared to the SMAS), subtle and slow, can be uncomfortable. Sofwave — newer ultrasound, more superficial and controlled, comfortable, good for fine lines and mild laxity. Morpheus8 — RF microneedling, also improves texture, pores, and acne scars.

All three are skin-quality / mild-laxity tools. None replaces a lift. A good provider will tell you when you need surgery instead.

06/22/2026

Two 70-year-olds: one golfed 4 days a week for 40 years without sunscreen, the other stayed mostly indoors. The golfer often looks 15–20 years older. Here's why.

UV light shreds collagen and elastin faster than you rebuild it, thickens and yellows skin into that leathery texture, and drives the spots and broken capillaries we read as "old."

80–90% of visible facial aging is sun damage — not chronological age. Largely preventable, partially reversible. The highest-return anti-aging product isn't the $400 cream. It's the $20 sunscreen.

06/19/2026

The chin is the foundation of your profile. A recessed chin makes the nose look bigger, the neck heavier, the jawline weaker. Fixing it changes a face more than people expect.

Filler: fast, reversible, good to preview projection — but temporary and pricey over years. Implant: permanent, custom, sits on bone so it looks and feels natural. Gold standard for real structural need. Liposuction: for fullness under the chin, NOT for projecting it forward. People confuse these constantly.

Filler to preview, implant to commit, lipo only for fullness.

06/17/2026

What patients always ask: what helps me heal faster? The honest breakdown:

Real: ice/cold compresses first 48h, head elevation at 45° the first week, hydration, and protein (your body rebuilds tissue from it).

Modest: arnica and bromelain — evidence is mixed, probably help bruising a little, won't hurt.

Bro-science: lymphatic massage too early (disrupts healing), mega-dose vitamins (you excrete the excess), "healing accelerator" supplement stacks (save your money).

The biggest levers are the boring ones.

06/15/2026

Neck and chin liposuction can sharpen a jawline — in the right patient. Usually younger, good skin elasticity, isolated fullness under the chin.

Sold to a patient over 45–50 whose skin has lost elasticity, it backfires. Remove the fat, the skin doesn't bounce back, and now there's loose hanging skin with nothing filling it out. Skinnier, not younger.

Past your 40s, a defined jawline usually needs deep tissue repositioned and skin redraped — a lift, not lipo alone.

06/12/2026

As we age, the distance between the nose and the top of the lip lengthens, and the upper lip rolls inward. Patients add filler — and for a while it helps.

But filler doesn't shorten that distance. Past a point, volume on a long upper lip just looks puffy and projects forward (the "duck" look). The problem is length, not volume.

A lip lift removes a small strip of skin under the nose and physically shortens it — permanent, 45 minutes, in-office. If lip filler's stopped looking right, the answer might be a lift.

06/10/2026

The dramatic part is surgery. But the month before quietly determines a lot of your result. What I tell every patient:

1. Medical skin care (retinoid, vitamin C, sunscreen) at least 4 weeks out — heals better, scars less.
2. Stop blood thinners your physician approves stopping (aspirin, ibuprofen, fish oil, vitamin E). Always clear with your prescribing doctor.
3. No alcohol for a week before — it worsens swelling and bruising.
4. Dial in sleep and blood pressure — surgical bleeding tracks with BP.

None of it costs much. All of it shows up at 6 months.

06/08/2026

Morpheus8, Vivace, Genius — RF microneedling devices that deliver heat into the skin to trigger collagen. For acne scarring, pore size, fine lines, and mild laxity, they genuinely work.

Where the marketing oversells: "it reaches deep enough to lift like a facelift." It doesn't. These needles safely reach the dermis and superficial fat — not the deep structural layer that holds your face up.

Excellent skin-quality tool. Not a substitute for repositioning deep tissue.

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