Q. I’m looking for a complete surgical makeover plan to restore the beauty of my features, youth and femininity to my face. I have had facelift, nose, chin implant and a LOT of filler. Hormonal imbalances caused me to lose a lot of fat in my face and giving me a masculine look. I am only 34. I currently have filler in my upper-eye, cheeks, jaw, chin and lips. I would like to have a more feminine and youthful look and am looking for a complete surgery make over and am looking for a surgeon who can recommend a specific plan to restore my more feminine features and a more youthful appearance. Price is not an issue.
A. Thanks for sharing your photos! There are so many options and they are dependent on many factors such as recovery from swelling and bruising, your budget, your expectations and YOUR perception of femininity given your beautiful feminine appearance in these photos. I am not suggesting you need any or all of the following but let’s go over some options.
Various options for facelifting, minimally and non-invasive facial enhancements and skin texture improvements are available according to the skin laxity and areas of lift or tightening you wish or need. Both surgical and minimally invasive / non-surgical options are listed below.
Surgical lifts would be likened to pulling the bedspread and or top-sheet of your bed up to the head-board and removing the excess material.
Minimally invasive procedures such as fillers provide volume such as adjusting a pillow under the bedspread. Botox and Dysport act by pulling the top-sheet which drags the bedspread upwardly. If the bedspread (or skin) continues to fall to the foot of the bed despite fillers, Botox or Dysport you will need to consider a facelift.
Non-invasive options such as laser and light therapies, skin tightening products and technologies perform their tightening and smoothening of the skin similar to sending your bedspread to the dry cleaners. A more refreshed, even colored, glowing smoother and tighter spread covers the surface of the bed.
The most popular of the fillers,Restylane and Perlane, a jelly-like clear skin filler is used to fill lines, wrinkles and folds. Juvederm and its longer lasting “cousin” Juvederm Ultra Plus are similar skin fillers, used to soften and fill the nasolabial (“parentheses”) and marionette folds, the brow (“number 11”) lines and fill and lift the cheeks and lateral brow or chin. Voluma is the longest lasting, up to 2 year duration HA filler. Each one is used to expand or volumize the loss of tissue associated with expression, weathering or aging. All the fillers come with numbing anesthetic!.
Dr. Kane is expert at cheek and cheek-eyelid rejuvenation with fillers. He uses a personally developed near pain free, blunt cannula technique to:
- Fill the “apple” of the cheek
- Fill in the tear trough (nasojugal fold)
- Highlight the mid and lateral cheek prominence
- Camouflaging the under eyelid bags and
- Reducing static and dynamic wrinkles and crow’s feet around the outer eye
