The Latest Facelift and Necklift Technique - the MACS lift
Issue 8 - Winter 2008
The Musculo Apeuneurotic Cranial Suspension (MACS) facelift has revolutionized facelift surgery by delivering predictable, sustained results with less invasive surgery, faster recovery, and fewer complications.
A MACS lift will address the effects of gravity and aging on the face, improving deep creases between the nose and mouth, laxity at the jaw line and jowling, and folds and fat deposits that appear around the neck, by removing excess fat, tightening underlying muscles and redraping the skin of your face and neck.
Incisions usually begin above the hairline at the temples, extend in a natural line in front of the ear – or just inside the cartilage at the front of your ear – and continue behind your earlobe to the lower scalp. If your neck needs improvement, a small incision may also be made under the chin for liposuction.
A formal necklift (platysmoplasty) can rejuvenate the aging neck and is used in cases where there is excess skin and the platysma muscle has split and created vertical bands in the neck. This is done with a 3 cm incision under the chin.
A MACS (Minimal Access Cranial Suspension) lift is less invasive than other techniques. The results are equal to those that can achieved using more traditional techniques, however, your recovery time is much faster.
