Proven Breakthroughs In Plastic Surgery

Silhouette Lift™/Bafitis Natural Youthful Direction Cheek Lift

By Dr. Harold Bafitis

Over the years, people have come into our office and have gently pulled up on their cheeks, showing an effacement and literal removal of jowls and an improvement in the area just under their eyes.

What they are basically doing is improving the volume in the middle one-third of the face.  This has become an aesthetic standard in plastic surgery:  When we show the effects of a cheek and neck lift, we gently sweep the facial fat and tissue vertically, filling the infraorbital hollows, improving the dimension and volume in the cheeks.

What patients have come to know is that the standard cheek/neck lift has dramatically improved their appearance, but it comes with the price of swelling between two to four weeks.  The swelling is usually associated with fat transplantation into the upper face, which usually creates some exaggerated puffiness for up to one month.

What patients desire is a relatively low-cost, straightforward procedure that can be done without general anesthesia and, in fact, done without any anesthesia; just local in the office with relatively no downtime that can improve the contour of the cheek.

The answer has now come with the use of the “Bafitis Natural Direction Youthful Direction cheek lift.”  With the use of Silhouette™ sutures that have absorbable cones that literally catch the fat in the cheek and jowl zones and lift it into more natural youthful direction, people could accomplish this in about an hour and one-half with no anesthesia, just plain local, or some mild oral sedation and local. 
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