Despite your best efforts to age gracefully, highly visible age-related changes are inevitable. A variety of factors affect your appearance over the years, including genetics, stress, sun damage, and smoking. Facial aging can also be caused by positive experiences as well, however, creating laugh and smile lines that are common around the eyes and mouth. Patients who want to look their best as the years progress choose facelift surgery to smooth deep lines and creases and refresh skin that looks droopy or sagging.
During a facelift, Dr. David Gerth, our experienced cosmetic surgeon, will remove lax, excess skin and reposition sagging facial tissue to restore facial volume, as well asthe neck and jawline. Though a facelift cannot halt the aging process altogether, it will reverse some of the most noticeable effects of growing older, resulting in a refreshed and youthful appearance.