Azul Beauty Podcast #315 (Dr. Yee, Surgery, Laser, Lips)

So, you know, we were talking before we turned the mics on about the facelift and how that's kind of the holy grail when it comes to facial rejuvenation and cosmetic surgery.

But it's also not...

A standalone one-thing-fix-all.

Yeah, it's not that magic.

It's a magic wand, but not the magic magic wand, because there's still some things that it does not address through the aging process.

Yes, and also, I mean, there are so many different types of facelifts.

There's a facelift that will address...

There's a lower facelift.

There's a lower-mid facelift.

There are... endoscopic facelifts there's you know facelifts that involve also coming up and addressing skin laxity that's sort of next to the eye and temple um even extending all the way to the to the forehead um

And

again, then that's sort of location and region.

But then there are different techniques of facelifting.

And, you know, there's the mini lift or we could say skin only facelift where you still get incisions and you dissect a little bit, but you just remove skin.

But that's not going to address the jowl.

That's not going to address the deeper layer.

And, you know, the face is a series of layers, right? We've got the skin.

And then we've got this middle layer called the SMAS.

And the SMAS is the layer.

It contains some fat pads, some tendons.

And basically what happens is that that layer descends as we get more graceful with time.

And creates that jowl.

And that's, you know, unless you address this SMAS layer, you are not going to fix the jowl.

Got it.

So if somebody has just a little bit of skin laxity, not really a lot of jowling at all, sure, a skin only facelift may be appropriate.