Skin begins to hang down from the neck and lower face. Fat pads in the cheek push down on the mouth, contributing to deep facial folds, or descending along the side of the face to create jowls.

After your facelift, your face will be bandaged for several days. Stitches will be removed starting on the fourth day after surgery. For best results, some stitches will remain in place until day ten.

To ensure long-lasting and natural-looking results, the modern facelift works on the muscles, fat, and skin together. A facelift provides results that do not look stretched or that change your appearance significantly, other than making you look younger.

Facelift results can give you a more youthful appearance over the entire treated area by reducing loose, hanging skin, some facial folds, and the overall slack appearance of the aged face, but it will not address some other issues, such as the fine wrinkles that often cover the entire surface of aged skin.