Forehead Lifts

Aging causes facial features to droop and sag, while leaving frown lines that are deeper than normal.  In addition, trauma causes an undue amount of sagging in the facial areas.  Forehead lifts reverse these conditions, giving the face a refreshed appearance.  Forehead lifts are also referred to as endobrow lifts, temporal lifts, or brow lifts. 

Best Candidates For Forehead Lifts

• Persons that have frown lines between their eyebrows
• Persons with deep horizontal lines across the forehead
• Persons with saggy brows, exhibiting a tired appearance
• Persons probably older than forty, but younger than sixty

Youthful individuals, typically those under the age of forty, still may experience these symptoms and may want to seek out having this forehead lift procedure performed. Though commonly seen as a cosmetic procedure, health side effects such as dropping brows inhibiting vision, may make the forehead lift procedure reconstructive surgery. 

In almost all procedures, the forehead lift occurs in a surgical office or hospital setting with local anesthetic and sedation being used preferably, but general anesthesia is available.  The procedure itself takes less than one hour.  The recovery period varies, but pain is not prevalent at all, easily controlled, and subsides quickly.  Most patients return to their normal routine within one week, and complications rarely occur. 

Successful procedures provide a patient with a more youthful, refreshed appearance.  These are only possible with good communication between the patient and surgeon prior to the procedure, as well as having realistic goals and aesthetic expectations.