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A better understanding of aging anatomy is heralding a NEW era of smaller, safer, easy recovery plastic surgical procedures with long-lasting changes that essentially prevent an aged appearance for your entire adult life. Even in your sixties, seventies, and eighties, with annual, bi-annual, or semi-annual maintenance and attention to smaller procedures, men and women can manifest youthful vibrance and allure. You’ll NEVER lie about your age, your appearance will do it for you.
Gravitational settling of facial soft tissue is managed by segmental (minor) lifts rather than a full face and neck lift. Cheek lift, temporal brow-lift, eyelid-lift, ear-lobe lift are all office procedures. Even minor face and neck lift operations can be performed safely and comfortably in the office while you’re awake and relaxed. Some skin sagging is corrected by removal and re-arrangement of descending tissue. Examples of this are jowl removal, lip-lift, and “anguloplasty”(corner of lip lift) procedures. Skin wrinkling can be treated by laser or by filling with fat or off-the-shelf products. Hollows on the aging face create shadows that send a signal of darkness, depression, and sadness. Others interpret this as hostility and avoid you. The face should reflect light, and be bright. Small facial implants, fat grafting, minor surgical lifts, and off the shelf fillers re-shape surface contours to reflect light in a youthful way.
Subtle improvements offer the added advantage that others notice you look good, but don’t really know that something was done. You still look like yourself, but younger. Although major rejuvenation still requires a trip to the operating room for general anesthesia, Dr. Steve Laverson, a San Diego Plastic Surgeon, performs many improvements in the office under local anesthesia. Among these minor enhancements, he includes brow lift, upper and lower eyelid lifts, cheek-lift, minor nose reshaping, lip shaping and lip lifting, facial fat transfer or filler, neck liposculpture, jowl removal, laser skin smoothing and wrinkle removal, laser skin tightening, and others.
Procedures to maintain youth are secondary to a healthy lifestyle, especially moderate diet and regular exercise. Cosmetic and plastic surgery is most effective in the context of ideal body weight and overall fitness.
Choosing minor procedures doesn’t mean they can be performed well by a “minor” cosmetic surgeon. Certification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery means your plastic surgeon has met the highest standard for his or her own performance, which increases the chance that he or she will hold himself or herself to the highest standard for your care and your result.
Dr. Steve Laverson is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, is a member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and has been in practice in North San Diego County since 1993. For consultation, call his Encinitas office at 858-295-4001 or visit feelbeautiful.com.
