Procedure Description:

Can a Deep Plane Facelift Be Performed After a Previous Traditional SMAS Facelift? Rena’s Experience at 62

When skin can no longer hold up the results of a facelift, a deep plane procedure can be used in conjunction with an earlier SMAS facelift to correct something that wouldn’t have lasted. Rena is a well-known hair stylist in Beverly Hills. At 62, she’s in great health, but she’d had a facelift 10 years earlier. She didn’t think she needed a new look then, but she did notice, over the years, some subtle but real changes in her appearance as a result of fillers.

In a consultation a few years ago, I told her there wasn’t enough evidence of aging in her face to warrant a Preservation Deep Plane Face and Neck Lift. Rena understood my point. She’s always been wary of the overly filled look she would see on many people in Beverly Hills. And she trusted my judgment. Years later she came back and decided she was ready to proceed.

Seven weeks after she had a Preservation Deep Plane Facelift and neck lift, a temporal brow lift, facial fat grafting and TCA peels of her eyelids, she best summed up her results this way: “I feel like it is just me, but alert and well rested.” This wasn’t cosmetic over-correction. Rather, it was rejuvenation of her face. Her contours returned, but so did the qualities that make her “her.” Newsweek once named Dr. Sadati one of the best facelift surgeons in the U.S. He frequently performs redo facelift surgery.