Question:
I love the idea of a quick facelift and just read about the mini facelift. I have the beginning of jowls, lumps of skin and fat on my lower jaw. I also have a lot of loose skin on my neck. Can both of these issues be addressed with the mini facelift? What is the recovery time for this procedure?
Answer:
A mini-facelift is a procedure that is primarily used to address the jowls and jawline. If one stands in the mirror and pulls back a little bit at the jawline and likes what they see, this is typically the improvement one would see with a mini-facelift. In this practice we refer to this as a weekend facelift that is covered extensively on our website. This has a recovery period of several days and most patients return to work within one week.
About the Author: Dr. Edwin Williams
Dr. Edwin Williams is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon who founded The Williams Center in 1993. He has performed over 10,000 facial plastic surgery procedures and has pioneered the deep plane facelift. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery for over a decade, and served as President from 2015-2016. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Dr. Williams earned the Castle Connelly Top Doctors award in New York Facial Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Edwin F. Williams III attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1982. He began medical school at the State University of Buffalo School of Medicine and received his Doctor of Medicine in 1986.
Dr. Williams is actively involved in teaching facial plastic and reconstruction surgery to the residents of the Albany Medical Center and is former Chief of the Section of Facial and Plastic Reconstruction Surgery at Albany Medical Center where he received an academic appointment of Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery.