Updates on Thread lifting technique… It is all about the Vectoring Baby!

In many Plastic Surgical practices including mine, the Thread lifting has become an integral part of our practice. Just like any procedure, the creative and innovative Surgeons continue to improve and optimize on the technique. It is no different when it comes to the art of Thread lifting.

I feel I belong in this category of Surgeons since I have championed the use of Thread lifting since it has become FDA approved as truly the only alternative to actual Facelift Surgery. Every other modalities including Thermage as well as various other radio- frequency based energy devices and Ultherapy only work to tighten the collagen at a molecular level, thereby creating an appearance of tightening of our aging face. Thread-lifting mechanically and geometrically lifts your lax skin in front of your very own eyes, just like Surgery would. What’s more, it is a very much interactive process since the patient is usually awake and in the real time, can visibly see the changes as well as feel the lifting of their skin.

However as a consumer, you need to ask where all the excess lax skin is going when even at a minimum, surgeons are removing three centimeters or more of loose skin during facelift surgery.

The answer is the technique of “Vectoring” to evenly iron out the loose skin in various directions to improve the lax appearance from the cheek eminence, nasolabial and marionette lines, the jowling along the jaw line, and even along the side of the neck

Vectoring technique is very much dependent on Surgeon’s

1. Knowledge of the underlying anatomical structures as well as
2. 3-Dimensional sense of aging
3. Visual and Artistic sense of returning the aging anatomical changes to a more youthful days, “individual” to the specific patient
4. Technical and Engineering sense to perform the vectoring technique without much discomfort to the patient, bruising, swelling, snagging, dimpling, or bunching up the loose skin.

When you think about it, a good non-surgical thread lift might be technically harder to do than an open facelift surgery. Almost anyone can be taught to insert the thread under the skin, but the finesse and technical nuances will really set the result apart from one provider to the next.

So please do your due diligence in picking out a well trained Board Certified provider who has the passion, the anatomical and technical expertise in the art of vectoring the threads to be able to achieve the optimal result in non-surgical facelifts.

Patient Review: 56 yrs old patient facelift to improve her neck area

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