Approaches to Midface and Cheek Lifting

Midface Thread Lifting: Method of Internal Suturing

Midface lift: our current approaches.

In the last few years, surgery of the ageing face seems to have shifted from tissue uplifting and tightening to mere filling. We do not agree with this trend. We are positive that ageing brings about 2 basic phenomena: on one hand bone and fat volume reduction, whilst on the other a deterioration of the skin lining (elastosis) leading to an increase in its compliance and extension. We therefore...

Novel Polypropylene Barbed Threads for Midface Lift—“REEBORN Lifting”

Ji Hoon Kim, MD Jae Don Seo, MD Jae Don Plastic Clinic Seoul, Republic of Korea Sir: I recent years, minimally invasive procedures for facial rejuvenation have become more popular. In 2012, the official statistics of the American Society of Plastic Surgery showed that the cosmetic surgical procedures decreased 12% when compared with 2000, but in the same time period, minimally invasive cosmetic...

Midface: Clinical Anatomy and Regional Approaches with Injectable Fillers.

The clinical approach towards the midface is one of the most important interventions for practitioners when treating age-related changes of the face. Currently a plethora of procedures are used and presented. However, few of these approaches have been validated or passed review board assigned evaluations. Therefore, it is the aim of this work to establish a guideline manual for practitioners fo...

Three-dimensional endoscopic midface enhancement: a personal quest for the ideal cheek rejuvenation.

Standard face-lift techniques are excellent for the treatment of the jawline and neck. Treatment of the area between the lower eyelid and the corner of the mouth required the development of techniques in the intermediate lamella of the face. Alternative techniques of subperiosteal dissection by means of lower eyelid incisions were described with good aesthetic results but at the expense of incr...