Soft face lift using threads

Abstract

Society is changing and consequentially so are tastes, concepts of beauty, and style of life. Patients who were asking surgeons to be transformed or pulled to the maximum to give a youthful appearance now desire less. Today patients ask for mini-invasive and less traumatic surgery, possibly with local anesthesia, and are looking for the best result with the least scar and the least trauma. The scalpel cannot remove lived years but it can try to remove a few of the shown years and, at the same time, it can help to improve the quality of the life. © Springer-Verlag 2008.