Aging can cause the skin on the forehead to sag, resulting in a drooping brow. If your skin has been affected by this common sign of aging, there is a surgical solution that can reverse the effects of aging and restore your youthful appearance, and it’s called brow lift surgery. This procedure rejuvenates the skin, treats visible aging, and helps you look younger, more approachable, and well-rested.
The Role of Brow Lift Surgery in Achieving a Youthful Look
Treating Visible Wrinkles
Horizontal forehead lines and wrinkles form due to the loss of skin elasticity over time. As you age, your body decreases collagen and elastin production, and your skin gets weaker. Aging combined with the effects of gravity causes the skin to sag and droop, thus creating horizontal lines. Sometimes these lines can become so severe that they don’t respond to non-surgical cosmetic treatments like BOTOX injections.
This surgical procedure is designed to target severe lines and wrinkles on the forehead that can cause the brow to sag and droop. During the procedure, the surgeon will tighten the tissue to smooth the forehead area and reduce wrinkles to promote the most youthful-looking skin.
Eliminating Frown Lines
Like horizontal wrinkles, frown lines can form between the eyebrows as a single or double indent in the skin. These lines can become deep and pronounced, creating a permanently furrowed appearance that makes you look unapproachable and even older than you are. During a forehead lift, the surgeon will tighten the skin to smooth and eliminate frown lines between the eyebrows and restore youthful skin.
Correcting Hooded Eyes and Sagging Eyebrows
Gravity and aging also affect the upper half of the face and can cause the skin to sag and the brows to droop. For some, drooping brows and hooded eyes can become so severe that they impede vision.
The surgeon will use advanced surgical techniques to target the loose skin that causes the brows to droop and will lift the eyebrows into a higher position, thereby correcting impaired vision, reshaping the brow, and eliminating a hooded appearance. Click here for more information about the forehead lift.
Combining the Forehead Lift With Other Surgical Procedures
The forehead lift pairs well with other facial surgeries designed to rejuvenate the appearance, target cosmetic imperfections, and reverse the effects of the aging process. The forehead lift pairs well with blepharoplasty, also known as eyelid surgery.
Patients with severe wrinkling around the eyes, puffiness, eye bags, dark circles, or excess tissue can schedule this procedure with the forehead lift for the most comprehensive results. It also pairs well with rhinoplasty, which is a nose surgery that can address both cosmetic and functional issues with the nose.
If non-invasive cosmetic treatments and cosmetic injectables aren’t effectively treating the signs of aging on the upper half of your face, this surgical procedure will naturally restore a youthful and rejuvenated appearance. The first step is to schedule an initial consultation with an experienced plastic surgeon who can answer all your questions, confirm your eligibility, and customize your surgical treatment plan accordingly.