Plastic surgery consumer website RealSelf.com takes a look at “non-surgical facelifts” this week, concluding, ”While they can recreate some of the effects of a surgical facelift, they never come close to the complete, long-lasting results that a surgical facelift entails.”
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Dr. Richard Baxter, a plastic surgeon in the Seattle area, says in the post, ”It should be called ‘non-surgical facial rejuvenation.” Another plastic surgeon, Dr. Sam Most of Stanford, CA., says, “The results are simply not the same [as a facelift], as they correct different issues.”
The website then provides a rundown of 4 non-surgical procedures that have been getting a lot of attention lately: the liquid facelift; the vampire facelift; the stem-cell facelift and the acupuncture facelift.
The piece quotes several plastic surgeons from around the country who offer their opinions on these “facelifts” – as well as the marketing campaigns.
Noting the term “vampire” facelift — in which a patient’s own blood is mixed with a filler — is riding a big pop-culture wave, Dr. Peter Aldea of Memphis cracks, ”Why let a perfectly good craze go to waste when there’s a lot of money to be made?”
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