Your Face-Lift Options in Albania

ALBGTC Med
3 min readApr 3, 2024

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Facelift, also known as rhytidectomy, is considered as a surgical procedure that helps in improving the signs of aging in the patient’s face or neck by repositioning or removing skin, fat or muscles. Which signs of aging can facelift improve? Extra fat and loose skin in parts such as neck, facial fat that may be lacking, the dropping skin in parts such as cheeks and jaw, sagging skin on the patient’s face , crease lines in the area between nose and the mouth’s corners, among many other things.

This procedure is a cosmetic restorative surgery that can not totally change the appearance or stop the process of aging. It can not also treat sun damage or irregular changes in the skin color. It is a different and unique surgery for each patient.

The Different Types of Face-lift in Albania

There are different types of facelift procedures which depend on which places of the face and neck it will be done. Here you have some types of the facelift procedure:

Traditional facelift
This type of facelift procedure includes making an incision in the area around the patient’s ears, hairline and the area under the chin. First of all the surgeon will separate the skin from underlying tissues . Then he will tighten the muscles and the other supporting structures of the patient’s neck and face.

If it is needed he will also do a removement of the excess fat in the neck and jowls of the patient. Then it is needed a re-positioning of the skin over the face of the patient in a very original way and also a removement of the excess skin. This procedure is mostly suggested for the patients that want to have an optimal improvement of moderate to considerable facial aging.

SMAS facelift
SMAS is a superficial musculoaponeurotic system also known as the muscular layer of the face, which targets the lower two-thirds of the face. The procedure of SMAS consists in the tightening of the muscles and to trim excess skin or fat in parts such as cheeks and lower face. This type is a variation of the traditional facelift procedure.

Deep plane facelift
In this type of procedure the surgeon lifts the muscular layer of the face, skin and fat as one unit. The procedure can address many areas of the face at the same time.

Mid-facelift
This type of facelift procedure consists in the treatment of the cheek area of the face. The surgeon will make a reposition of the fat in the cheek and will tighten the skin in that area.

Mini-facelift
These procedures consist of lifting the area of the lower face and neck. Mini-facelift is the quickest and less invasive surgery than the other types of facelift procedures.

Cutaneous facelift
The procedure of cutaneous facelift is focused in the skin of the patient, especially in the neck and the lower face.

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