Question:
I’m interested in getting a brow lift but I’m worried about it making my forehead appear too large. Is this a concern? Is the hairline raised and what can be done to avoid this?
Answer:
The short answer to this question is no. If you think about it for a minute – the distance from the eyebrow to the hairline is constant. What changes is that this tissue all moves downward to crowd the visual field or lower part of the forehead. When this is moved up, the distance really is unchanged; however, the patient looks much more refreshed. On rare occasions we will have a patient who has an extremely high forehead. In this type of patient, we will use a more open approach and we can actually shorten the forehead using this approach. With the endoscopic approach the incisions are placed behind the hairline, but when we have to reduce we only need to perform a forehead reduction the incision is placed at the junction of the hairline and the non-hair-bearing part of the forehead.
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.