FACE

The features of an attractive, youthful face include an elegant neck line, a smooth jaw line, full cheeks, and an absence of deep folds or lines. Time and gravity do their part to undo the beauty of youth, and a facelift or rhytidectomy can do much to restore these features. A face lift can be effective to correct sagging skin and fat at the jaw line, neck, and cheeks.

Although most people are familiar with the term "facelift," Dr. Kim actually combines lifting and repositioning of the skin and soft-tissue of the cheek, neck and temple regions to create a balanced improvement of the face. With his facial cosmetic surgery practice in San Francisco, Dr. Kim has performed facelift surgeries on numerous patients of a variety of ethnicity and background.

Often Dr. Kim recommends enhancing the results of a facelift by adding volume to the areas after they have been lifted. This is because the aging process causes deflation as well as sagging. Once Dr. Kim has successfully repositioned the structures of the face into better position, volume restoration can be accomplished with fat grafting, injectable fillers, or placement of soft implants.