The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-05
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ATLANTA WOMEN HAVE
THEIR FACES LIFTED
SURGEONS PERFORM BEAU.
TY" OPERATIO NS AT A
COST OF $500 EACH.
WANT TO LOOK YOUNG AGAIN
Incisions Made Back of Temples and
Tuck Taken in Muscles. Patient"
Holds Mirror in Hand to Watch
What Is Happening to Her.

Tuck Taken in Muscles. Patient
Holds Mirror in Hand to Watch
What Is Happening to Her.
ATLANTA, Ga.-At least six At
lanta women have had their faces lift
ed, according to news story printed
in the Atlanta Journal and written by
Angus Perkerson, well-known staff
writer.
And all are younger looking for it,
it is said.
Incisions were made just back of
each temple, and tuck was taken in
the sheaf OF muscles that control the
face. The result was that the flesh
around the jaws was drawn tight. in
stead of tagging as it does as youth
begins to wanee and the two sharp
lines that cut into the skin along the
sides of the mouth were smoothed out.
The operations were done here by
an Atlanta surgeon and each cost
about 500.
He is one of the best known men
in his profession, and he isn't much
in sympathy with lifting" faces. He
believes that surgery has higher
purpose.
its to relieve pain and to minis
ter to Sickness, he said. "But the sit
uation was this: Patients OF mine
six in all-came to me at different
times and said they were going to
have their faces lifted. If | didn't do
it they'd go somewhere else, go to
New York if necessary, and perhaps
IL, af .,
quack.
Operation Not Difficult.
"They believed that lifted faces
would make them look young again,
and they couldn't see where they
could get anything better out of sur
gerry than that. As | said, it looked
little like putting surgery to a some
what trivial use But they were bound
to have it done, and, anyway, lifting
the face is a form of plastic surgery
like grating a bone into the nose or
remodeling other features deformed
by disease or accident.
so, | lifted their faces.
The operation isn't difficult and it
| isn't dangerous-if it is done right.
1t is such a minor thing that only a
local anaesthetic is administered No
vocaine is enough to dull the pain,
then you go ahead with the patient
conscious of everything you are do
| ing.
I'm fact, at the beginning of face
lifting operation every woman wants
mirror in her hand so she can see
what is happening to her face. But
at the first sight OF blood she decides
lcL L. Without the mirror
The purpose of the operation is to
catch up the muscle sheaf of the face
in order to tighten baggy flesh around
the chin and to erase the lines at the
mouth. To do this two incisions are
made beyond the hairline, back OF
each temple. This position is selected
in order that the scars will be hidden
when the hair grows back.
How 1t Is Done.
81 make each incision half circular
in shape, and cut down through the
skin and flesh to the muscular sheaf.
and in that | take tuck; just as a
seamstress does in a dress, with the
result that the face is drawn up lift
ed, in order to do away with baggi-
ness about the chin and jaws and
lines about the mouth.
THE operation takes from an hour
to an hour and half, and about ten
days are required for the incisions to
heal completely
Il must say that i'll every case
where l have performed this opera
ton the patient has appeared young
er afterward. Whether the face will
stay lifted or will sag again is hard
to say. One Atlanta woman who had
the operation done eighteen months
ago felt the flesh beginning to grow
baggy once more at the chin, and had
the operation done over again. She
says she is willing to have it repeated
every year if necessary"
what can be done about lines I'M
der the eyes?" he was asked.
$50 far as | know surgery is help
less there" he answered. The only
method | ever heard of erasing crows
feet is to inject parafim under the
skin, and that is dangerous, to say
the least"