Skin lifting in aesthetic cervicofacial rhytidectomy: personal experience in more than 1500 patients.
BACKGROUND
Skin lifting alone in face-lifting surgery is limited to minor lifts in younger patients. The extent of skin undermining depends on the operative plan.


OBJECTIVE
An optimal aim is to minimize the amount of undermining to achieve a pleasing, natural rejuvenated result.


RESULTS
By respecting the extensive network of the dermal vascular plexus and by good surgical technique, ischaemia of the elevated skin may be minimized.


CONCLUSIONS
Moderate to maximal lifting, however, has proven to be anatomically sound in over 1500 cases operated on over the last 20 years using classical face-lift techniques to correct the pathoanatomy of the ageing face.
Hodgkinson
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Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia. dr_hodgkinson@bigpond.com
Tiong
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