title: The modern minimally invasive face lift: has it replaced the traditional access approach?
abstract: Because modern facelift patients desire a less-invasive approach or minimally invasive approach to reduce visible scarring and decrease the recovery phase, achieving the surgeon's goal of optimal, reliable, and long-term aesthetic results with few complications becomes a challenge. The authors use the terms minimal access and traditional access to describe rhytidectomy approaches based solely on incision size. A short-incision, minimal-access approach with a deep-plane extended dissection is presented. A preoperative physical examination maneuver to evaluate a patient's candidacy for a minimal-access approach and guidelines for when to include platysmaplasty with the procedure to further improve cervicomental contour are described.
authors.affiliation: Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, USA. drjacono@gmail.com
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Jacono
authors.forename: Joseph J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Rousso
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011300:Preoperative Care; D015361:Rhytidoplasty / Q000379:methods*