How to assess your face: Possibilities

When considering alterations to the face, the first step is to decide precisely what feature you’d like to improve: Brow? Eyes? Mouth? Neck? How is your skin tone? Is the skin loose? Common procedures to address these problems include facelift, brow lift, blepharoplasty, and non-surgical skin treatments.

Forehead

Do you have deep wrinkles? This may mean you need to raise your forehead to lift your eyebrows or upper lids to help your peripheral vision. Treatment can include non-surgical methods like BOTOX® injections, soft tissue fillers, or skin resurfacing, or surgical methods like a browlift, endobrow lift, eyelid surgery, or a combination.

Upper Eyelid

Do you have excess skin, or overhanging skin on the side of your eyelid? Does your eye area seem smaller? Do you have a difficult time applying eyeshadow? Treatment can include skin resurfacing with a peel, an eyelift, a browlift, or a combination

Lower Eyelid

Do you have pooching of the skin? A shadow under your eye that makes you look tired or sad? Are there fine or deep wrinkles under the eye? Depending on the severity, a skin resurfacing with a peel, a surgical eyelift, or a combination is appropriate.

Cheeks and Nasolabial Fold (crease from nose to mouth)

Does your cheek seem less full or lower? Is your jaw line not as defined as it once was? Is the crease from your nose to your mouth deeper than it once was? For finer lines you can non-surgically treat the area with soft tissue fillers or a peel. For deeper lines, a facelift is the treatment of choice

Mouth

Do you have lines around the mouth? Do you like the size and fullness of your lips? As we age, the lips tend to thin. Treatment options include skin resurfacing with products and peels, soft tissue fillers to fill out the lip a little, or a combination.

Neck

Does the neck/chin have excess fat? Poor definition? Banding? A double chin? A “waddle?” If you are younger or have good skin tone, liposuction may be a good alternative. Otherwise, a facelift is the treatment of choice.