Facelift for Men

Male facelifts are very different than their female counterparts. To begin with, men like to wear their hair short, so it makes hiding of surgical incision lines more technical. In addition, men do not want the stigma of having others know that they have undergone cosmetic surgery. As a result, it is critical to hide their surgical incision lines when feasible. This prerequisite requires a conservative pull of the temple skin and the posterior neck skin in order to avoid tension and a resultant surgical scar at all costs. Furthermore, the incision is leveled against the hairline follicles to allow for the growth of the hair follicles through the incision line.

Another consideration of the incision line is that it must accommodate the sideburn that is present only in males. This requires a rectangular incision line design that follows the hairline sideburn. Specifically, the incision lines along the sideburn must be straight lines and cut at 90-degree angles. The sideburn must also be acknowledged when trimming the redundant skin and transposing the facial skin back up. This is because the beard line must line up with the sideburn in order to avoid a hairline step off deformity between the sideburn and beard line. As such, patients are asked to have a small stubble showing on the day of surgery so that these two anatomical landmarks can be lined up. This means shaving the day before and not on the day of surgery!

A final consideration for male facelift surgery is making sure that the hair follicles of the beard line are not traumatized during surgery. As such, the skin flap layer must be dissected in a slightly deeper plane than in female facelifts. Injury to the follicles will result in hair loss and compromise of a smooth beard line. In addition, the skin layer possesses larger blood vessels that nourish larger and more dense hair follicles in men compared to women. As a result, blood thinners must be stopped at least one month prior to surgery as men are much more vulnerable to surgical oozing of blood.

A facelift for men requires the creation of a masculinized male profile that is depicted by the elimination of skin redundancy from the neck, jowls, and cheeks to create a chiseled look.

Surgical suite.

Residual skin looseness may occur in the neck due to skin recoil.

Male facelift surgery patients will require 10 days of recovery prior to returning to non-physical work. Patients can expect to go out to dinner with friends and family as early as two weeks following surgery.