Facelift
 Looking younger and more energetic begins with your facial appearance. Facelift surgery is designed to rejuvenate your face, combating the effects of time, stress, sun exposure, and environmental damage. For the best results, Dr. Citron customizes the facelift procedure according to your individual bone structure and skin elasticity.
By removing fat and tightening facial muscles, facelift surgery allows the skin to be smoothed and stretched more tautly. A face-lift can diminish wrinkles, lessen folds, and remove hanging skin from the jowls. Some patients choose to combine facelift with other facial procedures in order to achieve more dramatic results. Dr. Citron can help you decide what approach is best in your case.
As people age, the effects of gravity, exposure to the sun, and the stresses of daily life can be seen in their faces. Deep creases form between the nose and mouth; the jaw line grows slack and jowly; folds and fat deposits appear around the neck.
A facelift can't stop this aging process. What it can do is "set back the clock," improving the most visible signs of aging by removing excess fat, tightening underlying muscles, and re-draping the skin of your face and neck. A facelift can be done alone, or in conjunction with other procedures such as a forehead lift, eyelid surgery, or nose reshaping.
If you're considering a facelift, this brochure will give you a basic understanding of the procedure when it can help, how it's performed, and what results you can expect. It can't answer all of your questions, since a lot depends on the individual patient and the surgeon. Please ask your surgeon about anything you don't understand.
The best candidates for a face-lift
The best candidate for a facelift is a man or woman whose face and neck have begun to sag, but whose skin still has some elasticity and whose bone structure is strong and well defined. Most patients are in their forties to sixties, but facelifts can be done successfully on people in their seventies or eighties as well.
A facelift can make you look younger and fresher, and it may enhance your self- confidence in the process. But it can't give you a totally different look, nor can it restore the health and vitality of your youth. Before you decide to have surgery, think carefully about your expectations and discuss them with your surgeon.
Brow Lift / Forehead Lift
Frown lines above our noses and across our foreheads make us appear more serious, angry, unhappy, and older than we truly are, they also make us appear tired, especially as we age. A brow lift eliminates these lines and is one of the few procedures that allow a plastic surgeon to access the hard to reach muscles that cause furrow lines. The incisions for a brow lift can be hidden behind the hairline, or along the creases of the skull bone for bald patients. During a brow lift a plastic surgery patient's eyebrows can be raised and positioned higher on the brow bone. We'll be glad to discuss brow lift and other facelift options with you.
Rhinoplasty - Nose Surgery
 The shape of your nose, its size, and its relationship to your other facial features has a profound effect on your appearance. Alterations to the appearance of your nose can have an amazing effect on the aesthetics and overall balance of your facial features. If you are self-conscious because of your nasal shape or appearance, rhinoplasty surgery may help you boost your confidence and self-esteem. Rhinoplasty is one of the most frequently performed facial plastic surgery procedures in the United States; and can yield many different changes to the appearance of the nose. Your nose's size can be increased or decreased. The width of your nostrils can be reduced. The angle between your nose and upper lip can be changed. Rhinoplasty can even be used to change the shape and size of the bridge of your nose, or of its tip.
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