What To Consider Before Having A Face LiftWritten by Kelly Altodona
Are you ready to have a face lift? Nowadays, people as young as thirty years old are having procedure done although it is most commonly performed on females who are older than thirty-eight. The face lift, also known as a rhytiodoplasty, is particularly popular among both men and women in fields of art, entertainment and performance.First of all you need to consider that a face lift will not necessarily correct sagging tissues around eyes. If this is a problem then you need to ask for an eye lift as well. Sometimes an eyelift is also referred to as a mid- face lift. Before you choose procedure that is right for you make sure that you know all of your options by familiarizing yourself with all of different types of face lifts that are available. These include standard face lift, neck lift, S lift (which also pulls ears up and back), SOOF (which repositions under eye fat), deep plane lift (which removes grooves from nose to mouth), temporal lift (which raises eyebrows) and mid-face lift (also known as eye lift. Depending on your needs, your surgery may include a combination of above procedure to achieve effective, youthful looking results. All face lifts are performed under general anesthesia which is not recommended for elderly people as its side effects include forgetfulness. Anesthetic is also thought to be a potential trigger for long-term memory loss. Your plastic surgeon will also probably give you a list of medications that you will not be allowed to take for two weeks before surgery. These include medications such as aspirin, antidepressants or serotonin supplements. This is because these drugs can cause excessive breathing.
| | What To Consider Before Having Hair TransplantsWritten by Kelly Altodona
Before considering having a hair transplant you might want to realize that there are a lot of drawbacks to hair replacement procedures. These include scarring, a disfigurement called cobbling and reluctance of new hair to take to scalp. Although there are almost 200,000 physicians performing hair-restoration procedures in United States, only a handful have success rates with their clients. Perhaps most common thing to watch out for is doctor who uses plugs to refurbish hair on scalp. This is considered to be an outdate procedure that leaves client with a scalp that sprouts same kind of hair that you see on a plastic doll's head.The most common form of hair loss replacement involves grafting of hairs from back and sides of head. These hairs are then individually transplanted to bald spots on cranium. A mild anesthetic is used to prevent patient from experiencing pain during surgery. If there is post-surgical pain it is commonly treated with an average adult dose of Tylenol. You might also want to realize that hair transplant surgery is not a magic solution to baldness. The results really do depend on individual. Once transplants "take" you can still expect to look bald for many months until hair gains some length. You can expect transplanted hairs to grow at normal human rate of about ¼ " to ½" a month. If not all of growth "takes" in first session then you can end up with a patchy appearance on balding spots that some may consider being even more unattractive than original bald spot. Also keep in mind that every time you have to redo a transplant that it can take hair twice as long to grow back. This means that transplants that are replaced may grow as little a 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch a month.
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