Plastic surgery helps reduce aging symptoms, such as wrinkles, sagging skin, and age spots. Your cosmetic plastic surgeon can assess surgical and nonsurgical procedures suitable for the outcomes you desire. Surgeons offer various facial and body procedures, from lifts and augmentations to skin resurfacing. Here’s how a plastic surgeon can help reduce aging signs: 

Facelift Surgical Procedure

A facelift is a surgical procedure that repositions your cheek fat upward and outward for a more youthful appearance. Your cosmetic plastic surgeon can perform the procedure to remove excess fat, reposition tissues, and tighten the loose skin. Also known as rhytidectomy, facelifts address wrinkles, jowls, and sagging skin, resulting in a more aesthetic appearance with fuller, rounder cheeks. 

Your surgeon can perform a full facelift if you have drooping skin, cheek fat pads, and a sagging jawline. If you have deficient fat pads, implants and facial fat grafting may be used to fill the hollows and achieve better face augmentation. Facelifts involve minor incisions used to access, remove, or reposition fat tissues and tighten loose skin. The procedure is suitable for adults with fully developed facial structures.

Other Facial Plastic Surgeries

Your facial muscle volume shrinks with aging, resulting in bulges and irregularities from your eyelid junction to your cheek and jawline. The tissue loss and gravitational pull cause a tired, drawn-out appearance. Other undesirable effects of aging include droopy eyelids, bags under the eyes, and deep wrinkles etched into the lip lines. Plastic surgeons offer many facial surgeries targeting the nose, ears, chin, cheekbones, and neckline.

The surgeon can perform mouth and lip surgery to remove unwanted wrinkles and sagging. The surgery involves lifting the upper lip, which usually stretches with aging. Surgeons also perform browlifts to restore sagging brows for a more alert appearance. If you have bags under your eyes and droopy eyelids, the surgeon can perform an upper or lower eyelid blepharoplasty. Other facial surgeries include thread lifting, nose surgery, and ear and earlobe surgery.

Laser Skin Resurfacing and Microneedling

Surgeons can use laser skin resurfacing to remove the damaged outer layers of the skin, revealing healthy new skin underneath. The procedure stimulates collagen production and improves skin texture, tone, and elasticity. Laser skin resurfacing is nonsurgical and effective for fine lines and wrinkles, age spots and freckles, skin laxity, and acne scars.

Microneedling is another noninvasive technique surgeons use to stimulate skin regeneration. The procedure involves creating micro-injuries in the skin using tiny needles. The injuries stimulate collagen and elastic production, improving skin texture and appearance. Microneedling is used to reduce fine lines, enlarged pores, lax skin, and stretch marks. Other techniques used to resurface the skin include IPL photofacials to combat damage from UV rays.

Speak to a Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon Today

Plastic surgeons offer many other services targeting the effects of aging. You can get a mommy makeover, tummy tuck, or breast lift after childbirth to restore your pre-pregnancy contouring. Surgeons also offer arm and thigh lifts, hand rejuvenation, and more. Speak to a cosmetic plastic surgeon today to learn more about antiaging procedures and options.