Facelift

Facelift Sheffield

As we get older, our faces gradually change due to numerous factors from genetics to environmental stress, along with gravity. Your body starts to decline its collagen and elastin production, causing your skin to lose its bounce, while your muscles and fat pads start to migrate downward. This results in sagging cheeks, hollows under your eyes, heavy jawlines, and loose skin around the neck. For many in Sheffield, this can be disheartening and in some cases, cause you to lose confidence.

Facelift surgery in Sheffield, known as rhytidectomy, is a sophisticated surgical procedure that counteracts these changes. Modern facelifts today, focus on lifting, repositioning, and anchoring underlying tissues of the face to their original youthful natural looking position.

Deciding to have a facelift is a personal decision and it requires a high degree of accuracy. Dr Guirgis Awad provides bespoke face and neck lift procedures tailored to your structural anatomy, combining a meticulous approach with advanced surgical methods, ensuring the result blends seamlessly with your natural features. This is backed by more than twenty years of expertise in plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery.

What Is a Facelift?

Facelifts are not superficial treatments, they are an architectural restructuring of the lower two-thirds of the face, going below the skin surface. It alters the Superficial Musculoaponeurotic System (SMAS layer), rejuvenating your face through controlled surgical steps:

• Deep tissue repositioning – Dr Awad lifts and secures the descended SMAS layer, taking it back to its youthful position over the cheekbones and along your jawline, by lifting these layers in the proper vector
• Excess skin removal – Once Dr Awad has supported the underlying architecture, the overlying skin is gently repositioned with any sagging skin trimmed away
• Contour restoration – The displaced fat pockets are shifted to restore volume or sometimes fat grafting could be advised

What Can a Facelift Sheffield Treat?

Your facial tissues are affected by age and gravity, creating a predicable set of aesthetic and structural concerns you may be facing right now. Facelift surgery in Sheffield is a powerful way to address any issues, addressing the effects of years of sagging. Facelift Sheffield can treat:

• Sagging cheeks or the descent of your mid-face
• Loss of jawline definition
• Loose neck skin
• Deep facial folds
• Tired or aged face

What Types of Facelift Procedures Does Dr Awad Provide?

Every person is unique with a different rate of ageing, which is why facelift surgery is not a “one-size-fits-all” procedure. Dr Guirgis Awad offers a number of facelift variations in Sheffield and neighbouring region, ensuring the surgical technique precisely to your unique needs.

Mini Facelift

Mini facelifts are best suited to those with early to moderate signs of ageing. A mini facelift focuses on the lower face and jawline, using relatively shorter incisions. Incisions are hidden discreetly behind and in front of your ear, with a shorter recovery timeline. The skin is dissected for a limited distance. The SMAS layer is then identified and suspended (tightened) in the appropriate vector to restore the position of lower face and to a lesser extent the mid face too. This could also be performed along with different forms of neck lift. It could be potentially performed under local anaesthesia or local anaesthesia and sedation. The recovery is quicker with less downtime.

Full Facelift

Full facelifts are the gold standard when it comes to treating moderate to advanced signs of facial ageing. This is a comprehensive procedure that focuses on the mid-face, lower cheeks, jowls, and jaw line. The incision is extended into the hairline, along with behind the ear, with excellent restorative results.

Face and Neck Lift

Many patients find that facial ageing extends beyond the jawline, which is why a face and neck lift could be the answer you are looking for. This is a combined face and neck lift that addresses the lower two-thirds of your facial structure, along with your neck in one procedure.

Deep Plane Facelift

For moderate and severe signs of ageing, Dr Guirgis Awad performs a deep plane facelift. The skin is dissected till a line from the outer orbit to the jawline. The deep plane is entered by carefully incising through the SMAS, identifying and protecting the motor nerves to the facial muscles (facial nerve) using magnifying loupes. The retaining ligaments (zygomatic, masseteric and mandibular) are carefully released. This allows for lifting and suspending the whole SMAS / skin as one composite structure. This is a more skill demanding surgical approach, helping to lift SMAS/deep tissue in the appropriate vector, without tension on the skin. It is often favoured for its longer term results.

Am I a Suitable Candidate for a Facelift Sheffield?

Careful medical screening along with honest communication is essential to ensure you receive the longer lasting result you want to achieve. You may be a suitable candidate for this procedure if:

• You have visible signs of facial ageing
• Your general health is good
• You are a non-smoker or you are prepared to stop completely for four to six weeks, before and after surgery, giving your new transformation time to heal

How is Facelift Surgery in Sheffield Beneficial?

Facelifts in Sheffield provide structural and emotional rewards, outlasting any temporary treatments. This procedure is effective in eliminating jowels and restoring your youthful appearance, while lifting the mid-face and cheeks, making your face look naturally healthy. It is also effective in smoothing your neck profile and softening deep folds, while ensuring a refreshed appearance.

Facelift Sheffield Procedure Explained

Dr Award follows meticulous steps to ensure your procedure goes ahead as planned, starting with pre-operative planning and marking, where he draws on your face while you sit upright, providing a precise guide. After this, you will be placed under general anaesthetic in theatres.

At this point, Dr Awad infiltrates the area with local anaesthetic and adrenaline, to help with hydro dissection and reduce blood loss. He makes the necessary incisions, ensuring any scarring will remain hidden in anatomical creases. He typically starts with the hairline, tracing your natural curves to the front of the ear, before wrapping around the earlobe and extending to your lower hairline, hidden behind your ear. He carefully and gently works through the incisions, tightening and firming your facial tissues, trimming any excess skin, without applying tension.

The final step is the incisions are closed using ultra-fine stitches and surgical staples, which are hidden within your hair. A compressions is placed around your face and jawline, protecting your new contours and minimising early fluid collection.

Facelift Recovery and Aftercare

Everyone recovers at a different rate. Your recovery timeline depends on your patients and following your personalised aftercare plan. The first few days you will notice that your bruising and swelling reaches their peak, you may feel some tightness around your neck and jaw.

You will attend a follow-up appointment with Dr Awad’s team seven to ten days post surgery. This is where your stitches are checked and removed, relieving any skin tension. By the third week, you will notice your bruises are fading and can be camouflaged easily with some make-up and by four to six weeks after your facelift Sheffield, you can return to some exercise and normal daily routines.

Facelift Risks and Considerations

All surgical procedures come with some risk. Dr Awad is clear and transparent when it comes to what the facelift risks and considerations are, ensuring you can make an informed decision. Swelling and bruising is inevitable. It takes a couple of weeks to regress significantly. Swelling takes a few months to resolve completely. The risks include wound healing problems (infection, bleeding and haematoma, poor scarring, wound breakdown and altered sensation). Numbness around your cheeks, ears, and jawline is not uncommon. It is usually temporary. Sensation gradually returns over several weeks to months. Injury to nerves moving the facial muscles is uncommon. If it ever happens, it is usually transient due to stretching of the nerve (neurapraxia). Both sides of the face are not identical in general but should be harmonious. Over or under correction could happen, although Mr Awad follows a meticulous and precise approach to get it right first time.
Haematoma is collection of blood and seroma is collection of fluid under the skin. If these happen, it might need drainage in theatres. Risks of general anaesthesia include clots in the leg (DVT) that can go to the lung (PE).

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