Revision Surgeries in Philadelphia

A revision facelift helps patients seeking to undergo a second facelift because it has been many years since the original treatment. After a facelift surgery, patients continue to age with results lasting up to 10 years. Patients look for a revision surgery to deal with an unnaturally tight or stretched appearance from a previous superficial skin or “SMAS” based facelifts that did not address the deeper fat and muscular structures that sag over time.

The deeper structures are left unsupported while the skin is pulled tightly over them causing the stretched facial appearance. Some patients complain that there are still jowls and fullness in their necks or that their cheeks were not lifted in the original procedure. A deep plane facelift technique lifts and supports the deeper facial muscles and facial fat pads that can help reverse or undo the unnatural pulled appearance of the original superficial facelift and treat the residual signs of aging that were left in place after the prior surgery.

After an injury from a cut or tear, the body heals by forming scar tissue with some scars having an obvious and disfiguring appearance. Unattractive scars can be wide, sunken or cause distortion of other parts of the face such as the eyes or lips. Surgical techniques for scar revision are designed to make the scar as smooth and invisible as possible whether recreating the incision, moving skin around the scar to make it less visible.

Some scars can be raised and improved with dermabrasion and laser resurfacing which makes the scars less prominent by removing part of the upper layers of skin. Keloid or hypertrophic scars can be treated with injection of medications to reduce size or be removed surgically.

Revision rhinoplasty is one of the most commonly sought and complex revision plastic surgery procedures. Patients are often dissatisfied with an “overdone” aesthetic or an anatomical aberrations that were left unaddressed after a previous surgery. That is why a revision rhinoplasty becomes a highly individualized treatment.

During your consultation, you will get an opportunity to discuss in detail your dissatisfaction with a previous surgery and your concerns moving forward with a revision surgery given your past experiences. You will understand more about how your nasal shape can be improved, a process that may be as simple as providing a little additional sculpting and contouring of your nasal bone and cartilage or as complex in nature as requiring cartilage grafting to reconstruct your nose.