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People in U.S. are consumed with the idea of staying young. So, it’s no wonder that many people choose cosmetic surgery as a way of combating the visible signs of age like crows feet, wrinkles, and so on. One way that people choose to combat aging is with weekend face lifts – so called because they can be done over a weekend.

The mini face lift does concern a number of people, but the lure of having a younger face in the course of a weekend is a lure that not many can refuse. Normally, as someone gets older, her skin will go through natural aging related changes The rate at which these changes occur depend on a number of things – genes, life style, diet, and other variables. The skin covering face muscles become more slack due to the loss of fatty tissue between the skin and muscle. The skin becomes dried out and  less elastic, less supple. And the more time she has spent in the sun, the faster these changes occur.

A clear sign that your face is losing it’s elasticity is if it begins to sag. A weekend face lift which tightens the skin can help this. But it’s also helpful if the physician is knowledgeable in the new cosmetic surgery techniques that focus on re-positioning the underlying fat layers of the skin to give the patient’s face a more natural and less “pulled back” look. Re-positioning will also reduce the amount of facial stress caused by the newly tightend skin thus helping the weekend face lift to last longer.

Before your weekend surgery, you’ll have to perform certain things in preparation. For example, if you are taking medicine, depending on the specific medication, you will probably have to stop taking them a week or two prior to the surgery. Or, if you smoke, the surgeon will most likely ask that you stop smoking for a couple of weeks. And if you routinely take herbs, vitamins – since some of them have an effect on blood flow, you may be asked to refrain from taking them until after the surgery.

People and their bodies react to surgeries differently. As such, even though weekend face lifts normally cause very few problems, if any, the result does depend very much on the specific person. For example, are you a quick healer? Do you have a disease, such as diabetes which might cause the healing to occur more slowly? Do you have any degree of facial bone loss which might limit the full effect of the weekend face lift? But normally, if everything goes well, you should be able to resume your normal daily routine within the first week. By the end of six months, the scarring from the stitching has normally disappeared or become only slightly noticeable.

Doctors experience in the weekend face has evolved over the years. As new techniques were invented, surgeons became better at making these weekend face lifts look more natural. The less cutting of the face, the more natural the face will look. If your skin has a lot of slack you may be more of a candidate for full face lift instead of a weekend face lift.

Even though a successful face lift can be done on pretty much anybody, it works best in circumstances where the patient still has a certain degree of elasticity in her skin and strong facial bone structure for the skin to lay on.