Facial rejuvenation
Your face is often indicative of your personality, but it can happen that you no longer find yourself in adequacy with it. Over the years, the reliefs of the face can melt and reveal the marks of time, the skin of the cheeks and neck becomes slack, the cheekbones, the temples and the furrows become hollow, giving a "dull" and tired appearance to your natural expressions. , sends back to others an image that does not reflect your temperament or your energy. Allowing to correct certain unsightly aspects of the face), It is possible to use the fat of your own body to restore volume to your natural contours and thus effectively rejuvenate your features. Doctor Delobaux, cosmetic surgeon, specialist in cosmetic surgery in Bordeaux, helps you find a rejuvenated face.
Why have a facial lipostructure?
When the features you observe in the mirror give you a dull and tired image with dark circles or hollows under the eyes and sunken temples.
The most frequently injected areas?
The areas most frequently injected are the following: Dark circles: dark circles tend to deepen with age. The injection of fat allows a lasting result. Nanofat, an injection of fatty stem cells, improves the dull appearance of dark circles. The upper or lower eyelid: this area of the face ages by becoming hollow with age. The cheekbones: signs of youth. The temples: linked to the gaze and in particular to the tail of the eyebrow, the temples are part of the essential areas to be treated. Sunken temples give an aged and "bony" appearance to the face. Cheeks: following several diets or over time, the cheeks tend to sag. The lipostructure of the face makes it possible to fill this void naturally and durably. Lips: for lip augmentation, lipostructure is effective and offers a natural and lasting result. Nasolabial folds: these are the furrows connecting the sides of the nose to the corner of the lips.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of lipostructure?
Lipostructure, also called lipofilling, aims to restore harmony and volume to an aging face. It can be performed alone or in combination with a facelift. This technique has advantages and also disadvantages.
Benefits
The lipostructure of the face restores the volumes of the face by giving it back harmonious, youthful and dynamic proportions. It fills in hollows and wrinkles, shapes the cheekbones and temples, it's a real boost. The injected fat belongs to you, it has been taken from an area of your choice and purified. It contains growth factors that regenerate your skin and give a rejuvenated appearance to your tissues. This is a natural method since it is your own fat that is reinjected. No visible scar is made. It is therefore an efficient, innovative and less expensive process. During your consultation, Dr. Delobaux will discuss and reassure you about the risks that such an intervention can cause.
Disadvantages
The disadvantages can be the following: numbness of the skin (treated areas), bruising still in the treated areas or even edema – very common for any type of cosmetic procedure – which disappears after a few weeks.
How are the sessions going?
First of all, during the consultation session, Doctor Delobaux welcomes you and answers your questions. He analyzes your needs, your desires and offers you an appropriate and personalized solution to your desire, your skin type, your background, etc.
On the day of the operation, the surgeon makes precise drawings of the areas to be treated, this gives you the opportunity to ask him the last questions relating to the operation.
The medical (anesthesiologist) and paramedical team then takes care of you and accompanies you to the operating room. The procedure takes place under general or local anesthesia, depending on what was planned during the consultation. It lasts 45 min to 1 hour depending on the case, after the anesthesia small incisions of a few millimeters are made to start the infiltration of a saline solution with adrenaline to reduce bleeding and increase your comfort on waking.
The surgeon then makes a passage under the skin in the deep and superficial fat. The fat is then aspirated using a conventional cannula and in a gentle and non-traumatic way since it has been liquefied beforehand. This allows a significant reduction in edema, bruising and bleeding compared to conventional liposuction. The fat is then purified and separated from blood and impurities to reinject only pure fat into the areas of the face to be treated.
What are the results ?
The result is immediately visible and you have to wait a few weeks (3 months) for the final result. This innovative technique makes it possible to delight our patients who obtain natural and lasting results. Facial surgery improves and rejuvenates features marked or wrinkled by time or by weight loss. Optimal results make the facial features harmonious and restore tone to the upper part.
What are the operational consequences?
The postoperative consequences of facial surgery are light: You can return home the same day as the operation; When you return home, complete and effortless rest will be observed and a work stoppage of 3 to 5 days is recommended. The intervention is not very painful and the consequences are simple; Edema and bruises appear on the face and areas of levies appear in the following days.
Are there alternatives to surgical facial treatments?
The cervico-facial lift is often associated with lipofilling of the face, especially in the event of significant sagging skin. Eyelid surgery is also often associated with this procedure.
Prices
Rejuvenation of the cheekbones: from 2450€ Rejuvenation of the neck: from 2950€ Rejuvenation of the cheekbones and neck: from 3950€
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