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The best facelift candidates are patients whose skin appears to be lax
or sagging. A strong jaw line or well-defined bone structure may also
help improve the results of a facelift. Patients in their 40s, 50s, and
60s are the most common facelift patients, but others in their 70s and
80s have had successful surgeries as well. Facelift surgery can make you look younger and fresher by improving the appearance of the face. A facelift, like any plastic surgery, may also boost your self-confidence and improve the way others interact with you, but that is not the purpose of the procedure. A healthy facelift procedure is designed to make you "look good for your age" and provide a rejuvenated facial appearance. Some degree of facial rejuvenation will be permanent, improving laxity and sagging of the face, but some wrinkles may not be resolved with surgery. Particularly, more superficial wrinkles are less likely to be improved by the facelift procedure. Results, however, vary with age, race, sex, weight, type of skin, previous exposure to sun, and other factors. On the other hand, botox combats wrinkles that are created when nerve cells within t However the best to answer that question of yours, is your plastic surgeon under full consultation. |


