Patient education
Non-Surgical Skin Tightening vs Facelift: The Choices
Eight guides to the choice between non-surgical tightening and a facelift, from telling a skin problem from a positional one to the cases in which neither option is the answer. Written for someone deciding, not someone studying.
All guides
8 guides
- Tightening First or Surgery First? What the Order CostsDeciding
- What Non-Surgical Tightening Can Realistically ChangeThe non-surgical route
- The Line Between Laxity and DescentAssessment
- Does Waiting Make Later Surgery Harder?Timing
- Maintenance and the Cost of Repeating a TreatmentCost and time
- What Surgery Offers That No Device DoesThe operation
- Choosing a Clinic for Either OptionChoosing care
- When Neither Tightening Nor a Facelift Is RightAlternatives
Is your problem in the skin, or in the position of the tissue?
An assessment begins by separating the two: how much is laxity, how much is descent, and what each option would therefore change in your face. We will say plainly what an operation would leave exactly as it is, what a course of treatment cannot move, and what we would advise if neither were the right answer for you.