Brow Lift and What It Is All About

Your facial appearance significantly impacts your general appearance as it is the most visible part of your body. Therefore, any changes to your facial appearance, either through injury, accident, or effects of age, can negatively affect how you look. Cosmetic procedures have encouraged the restoration of your looks with a high percentage of effectiveness. An example of a typical facial cosmetic procedure is the Scarsdale brow lift. More about the procedure and what it involves is discussed below.

What is a Brow Lift?

This is a cosmetic operation performed on your forehead to heighten the level of your brows. This enhances the appearance of your brow, forehead, and areas surrounding your eyes by raising the skin and soft tissue of the brow and forehead. This can assist boost your self-confidence. The procedure may be done on its own or with other facial procedures.

As you age, your brows typically fall downwards since as soft tissue and skin lose elasticity, the distance between the eyelashes and eyebrows becomes less. This position makes you appear angry, tired, or sad. This process aims at restoring your fresh appearance by raising your eyebrows. The procedure may also be handy if you want to fix sagging upper eyelids.

Risks

As with many other procedures, brow lifts have various risks, such as:

• Temporary or permanent changes in skin sensations, including numbness on the scalp, top, or forehead.
• Visible scarring following the procedure.
• Hair loss or a high hairline at the incision site. The problem may not resolve itself, requiring hair grafting or scar incision.
• One eyebrow may look too high, although the asymmetry may even out after healing. Additional surgery treats persistent brow position or shape.

Other typical side effects include infection, bleeding, or adverse reaction to anesthesia.

Techniques for brow lifts are different depending on what results you want. Your surgeon chooses a technique that determines where incisions and eventual scars will be located. Some standard methods include:

Coronal Brow Lift

This involves making a small cut across your head behind the hairline on top or from ear to ear. Your forehead is then raised into its preferred position, with the scalp behind the cut overlapped by the one in front. The overlapping scalp is gotten rid of while the remainder is sown back. This method is more common for those with thin hair, high hairlines, or who are prone to lose their hair.

Endoscopic Brow Lift

Multiple tiny cuts are made behind your hairline. A camera with a light in the form of a slender tube is inserted to view the tissues and muscles beneath. Your forehead tissues are lifted using an inserted device and then anchored by small screws or sutures.

Hairline Brow Lift

A cut is made between the hairline starting point and the forehead top. Tissue and skin from your forehead top are removed, thus not pulling your hairline back. However, this procedure may leave a scar along the hairline after healing.

Brow lifts and other facial procedures are cosmetic procedures that go a long way in improving your appearance and restoring your youthful looks. Check our website online or call our Scarsdale, NY offices for any brow lift inquiries.