Plastic surgeons at the Medical Center of Southeast University in Dallas, led by Dr. Rod Roricha shared the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery its more than 20 years of experience in re facelift (ritidektomii). The article said that if doctors pay attention to some of the key surgical principles, the "secondary ritidektomiya is a safe and effective procedure for the continuation of surgical facial rejuvenation patients aged".
From 1990 to 2010 Dr. Rorich conducted more than 800 face lifts. Approximately 60 were repeated, that is carried out for correction of the newly formed age changes. In total, through repeated facelift They passed 57 women and three men with an average age of 51 year at the time of the first lift and 60 years old at the time of the second.
On average, the apparent effect of the first facelift patients remained for nine years. Of these 60 patients, 10 subsequently made them the third lift. But the time between the second and third facelift already was 7, 5 years. The level of complications secondary ritidektomii was about 5%, that is, the figure is not much different from the first operation. No increase in the number of cases of facial nerve injury were recorded.
The report noted a significant increase in the number of patients who come for the second and even third facelift. And facial rejuvenation operations today, people are becoming interested in a younger age than 10-20 years ago. (READ MORE)
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