Facelift

Dr. Chow offers several facial plastic surgery procedures like the facelift to rejuvenate patients with natural-looking results from his San Francisco based office.

A lot of women come in for surgery in order to improve their facial features and in fact to restore some of their youth that they used to have, and this is quite common to have them come in and ask me, what, you know, I recommend, and I ask them primarily, what are your goals? I believe in providing the patient with a very natural non-tight look. What we try to do is fit the patient with a facelift technique or a combination of techniques in order to provide what I think is the stake as well as what they feel is good for them. When you do a facelift, you really pull the skin and the tissues underneath to reposition the natural contours of the face. Unfortunately, a lot of times in the area between the nose and the lip, there is a groove there that is very difficult to treat. Even with a very tight facelift, you really kind of miss that area and so what I have done in the past is include fat grafts from themselves as well as skin that I would normally throw away anyway, I would put in that area as a graft.