“The first time I see a new patient in the clinic at consultation and ask them how I can help, one of the most common responses I get, particularly from female patients, is a full-face lift. They’ve noticed some sagging in the lower part of the face, and they want to improve that. What I tell patients is that there are four ways that we can do this. The gold standard would be a surgical facelift under general anaesthetic, but we can also use devices like ultrasound and suspension threads, and dermal filler, to achieve the desired lifting effect. It is important to understand that a filler, ultrasound, or thread cannot replace a traditional facelift, however the amount of impact we can create is considerable. The ideal patient would be someone who doesn’t have excessive sagging, and we typically begin by putting the filler along the cheek, which affects the skin around the jawline, lifting it for an improved appearance. This is the basic premise of a non-surgical facelift with filler, simply re-volumising the tissues that have lost definition and deflated with the ageing process, using the filler to get a lift in the midface, and in doing so, improving the lower face.” – Dr Tapan Patel