The Endoscopic Vertical Facelift in Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach California

The endoscope is a small fiberoptic camera (5mm wide) that is inserted into a 1 inch incision in the temporal scalp area. This allows me to visualize the structures inside of the face without making a large incision. The operation is done watching the television monitor, rather than directly at the wound. There are also smaller (8mm) incisions placed on the forehead hair bearing scalp area for introduction of instruments.

ADVANTAGE

No incisions in front of the ear. From small incisions in the hair bearing scalp, the forehead, brow, upper eyelid, lower eyelid, cheek, and the jowls can be treated. The pull is in a vertical direction so to give a more natural lift without the "lateral sweep".

This one single operation through a set of tiny, well hidden access incisions in the hair bearing scalp, all of the following things can be achieved.

• Forehead lift: Smoothing out the transverse wrinkles of the forehead.
• Treatment of gabellar frown lines: These are the muscles that many use BOTOX to smooth out. However, the effects of Botox is only temporary. Endoscopically, the muscles that cause the frown lines can be weakened permanently.
• Browlift:
• Upper blepharoplasty : redrapping the upper eyelid skin without cutting the eyelid skin.
• Lower bleparoplasty effect: Instead of cutting lower eyelid bags out (potential of becoming hollowed out looking as one gets older) the herniated lower eyelid fat pads are tightened back into the orbit by tightening the eyelid muscle.
• Cheeklift/midfacelift: Early signs of aging, the cheek descends and accentuates the nasolabial folds (the laugh lines). The Endoscopic vertical lift is especially designed to treat midface problems.
• Jowls: As we age, the jawline becomes more square shaped instead of heart shaped. The jawline can be recontoured from the scalp incision. This is the advantage of the endoscope.