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Everybody ages at different rates. People of the same age can look older or younger depending on thousands of factors. These days there is even interest in so-called “preventive aging” where people try to maintain their youthfulness even before they’ve lost it. There are countless anti-aging surgeries and procedures, but many people have anxieties about the various levels of pain or discomfort they may experience as a result. Here we will dive into a possible solution for such people – minimal incision lifting.

Types of Facelift: The Difference Between Incisions

Other surgeries such as a browlift or a traditional full facelift require incisions along the lower hairline and sideburns in order to lift sagging skin. While the recovery time of these full incision surgeries is longer, they are very effective and have a high rate of satisfaction when patients compare themselves before and after surgery.

Minimal incision lifting and mini lifting have a similar effect to a full facelift, but, as the name implies, the incision size and the resulting wound are much smaller. This way, these procedures can give great results with hardly any scarring.

With that said, how effective is mini lifting? You’d be surprised. While the length of the incision is reduced, the lifting of the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) layer means the procedure can lift from deeper in the skin and give comparable results.This is also why you may hear the term SMAS lifting.

Variations on Minimal Incision Lifting

Thread Lifting

Mini lifting improves wrinkles by gently pulling the skin up and gives a smooth and youthful appearance. It’s a surgery that’s very quick to recover from due to its small incision size, and it can improve the appearance of wrinkles and overall skin elasticity. This makes it a popular surgery choice for those looking for the effects of a facelift without the conventional downsides.

The thread lifting method leaves extremely tiny incisions, only big enough to insert the thread and attach it to the SMAS layer. It is a one-day procedure without any real recovery period. All of which makes it very suitable for those who are uncomfortable with surgery. Additionally, SMAS thread lifting is different to regular thread lifting. It has triple lifting power with long-lasting results.

Mini Lifting

The best lifting surgery for you isn’t necessarily the one that has the most intense pulling effect. This is because everyone has different aging concerns that develop uniquely for each individual based on a variety of factors such as thickness of skin, depth of wrinkles and the current state of their skin elasticity. That’s why you need to think about which procedure is going to be best for your individual needs rather than just going for the most powerful surgery.

The skin is composed of many layers such as the epidermis, dermis and muscle layer. Therefore, a multi-layer lifting approach can give excellent overall effects.

But what’s the surgical method involved in mini lifting?

Unlike full-incision lifting where the incision is made from the lower hairline down to the front of the ear, with mini lifting the incision is about 1cm long and located behind the ear. Mini lifting can give such good effects with a tiny incision because multiple layers down from the epidermis to the SMAS are being lifted at once – maximising the effects.

So what do you think about these new developments in the field of anti-aging surgeries? Have you had a full facelift before? And do these less invasive surgeries make you less anxious about the idea of lifting procedures?