MACs Facelift
Do You Want To Join The 10 Year Challenge?
If you want to turn the clock back to look like a younger version of yourself, a facelift could be the answer. A face lift can enhance and rejuvenate your appearance by removing excess skin, correcting wrinkles, and tightening the deep facial tissues – there is obviously a little bit of stretching too.
Like everything, there are facelift choices based on your aesthetic goals, facial anatomy and your preferences around recovery and the risks involved. The choices lead to the varying type of incision, number of tissue layers treated, the area of the face that is targeted, and their degree of surgical invasiveness.
Perhaps You Are A Candidate For A Macs Facelift?
A MACS facelift is the abbreviation for what is fully known as a Minimal Access Cranail Suspension facelift or also referred to as a short-scar facelift. The MACs lift is generally recommended for patients between 40-55 years of age to tighten a slightly sagging face and limited sagging jowls and is great for patients with a great skin tone.
The MACS lift as previously indicated targets slightly sagging face and jowls, procedurally this is done by concentrating on the lower and middle third of the Face.
Medically, the MACs lift uses a pure vertical vector (the x axis – vertical direction) tension meaning fundamentally a pure anti gravitational lifting procedure that will suspend the sagging soft tissues of the face and neck, together with the adhering skin, in a vertical direction.
The MACs facelift involves no lateral tension (the y axis) so no skin or muscle tissue is pulled horizontally.
What Are The Advantages Of The MACS Lift?
There are a number of advantages associated with the MACS lift as compared with older, more traditional surgical approaches to facial rejuvenation.
To begin with, the MACS lift involves a much shorter surgery, smaller incisions and as a result quicker recovery. For traditional procedures, the surgical time is about four hours, whereas with the MACS lift the procedure is typically only two and a half to three hours.
One of the main advantages of a MACs facelift is that it may be performed with the patient under local anesthesia rather than the inherent risks of using general anesthesia for a traditional facelift
How Is A Macs Facelift Done
In a MACs lift operation, a small incision is made in the naturally occurring crease, in front of the ear. To limit the scar, the incision is made in the front of each ear from the hairline, but this time ends at the earlobe.
The facial tissue and facial muscles are then tightened with the use of two or three sutures. Any excess facial skin will then be removed.
On average, the surgery takes two to three hours to complete. The procedure can be done under a local anesthetic.
This facelift technique is usually performed with the patient under local anesthesia and, since a great deal of skin cannot be removed, is best for younger individuals.
MACs Facelift Recovery
A MACS facelift is a far less invasive procedure than a traditional facelift because it generally has a shorter recovery period. Immediately after your MACs facelift surgery, bulky but firm bandages are placed which you will have to wear overnight.
Some small no suction drains may be placed and inserted behind the patient’s ears. These drains may be removed the following day. The bandages may also be removed and an elastic chin up bandage will may have to be worn for a week.
Stiches that were installed will be done after 5 days with the reaming stiches removed after 10 days.
The shorter completion time and the use of local anaesthetic, results in MACS facial surgery being less expensive than conventional facelifts.
Combining Additional Cosmetic Surgeries With A MACs Facelift
Often a MACs facelift is combined with other cosmetic procedures to get the desired results. Sometimes a neck lift maybe recommended to refine the appearance of your lower face, chin and neck area.
There are other cosmetic procedures as well that may be considered that should be done concurrently like a having your eye bags removed, an eye lift (blepharoplasty). Since one is undergoing surgery, they may also consider a rhinoplasty (nose job) of liposuction of the cheeks or chin or perhaps chin implants.