Question:
I am 63 years old and had a facelift a year ago. My skin is pulled way too tight and I am extremely unhappy with the results. Is there anyway to reverse a facelift?
Answer:
Often patients will complain of feeling a certain degree of tightness in their face or neck after facelift surgery. Fortunately the sensation of tightness improves with time. If indeed the actual result that you are noticing in the mirror appears to be more tight or unnatural than what you are looking for, we can often help to improve things by helping to restore some volume to the face. This is an often neglected part of facial aging that a facelift alone will not address and these situations when a facelift has been performed and the patient still feels like they have not achieved the youthful appearance that they were striving for. By transferring the patient’s own fat to particular areas of the face we are able to somewhat reverse the unsatisfactory facelift result and at the same time restore to the patient a more youthful and vigorated appearance.
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.