Wrinkles, sags, jowls and loose neck skin due to gravity, sunlight, wear and tear and stress make you very much upset and fretful. Aren't they? You gaze at oh-so-beautiful models and glamorous people in the TV, films, and magazines and wish if you could manage to look like them! Well, for those with sagging, wrinkle-ridden faces, facelift cosmetic surgeries are like messiahs from the heaven. Their key to glamourdom.

However, you can achieve your youthfulness once again. Why do not you go for a cosmetic surgery to enhance aesthetically your facial appearance by way of removing excess fat and tightening muscles?

Facelift or Rhitydectomy, a significant area to be taken into consideration, is the fifth most popular cosmetic surgery in the world.

The facelift operation consists of incision and undermining processes. In the course of the operation, the patients are given the local anesthesia or the general anesthesia. Slitting commences from behind the ear and ends near the hairline on the backdrop of the ear. Now using the scalpel and scissors the surgeons would start separating the skin from the inner tissue under the neck, cheeks and chin.

The facial suspension system is tightly done with proper stitches. The skin, after that, is removed to the desirable extreme and the opened skin is stitched. Not all the remaining underlying tissues are dragged and the opening of the skin is closed with sutures.

The facelift operation is generally good to persons with thin skin and good bone structure. Nevertheless, it leaves a long scar due to incision, which if visible by others, would produce a kind of oddity. Therefore, in most of the facelift operation, the incision is hidden to the hear line near the earlobes.

When too much skin is removed the aftereffects would see a drastic change: a 'windswept appearance'. Two common mishaps are there: an unnatural look in men due to backward side burns and a downward earlobe in women.

Eye surgery (blepharoplasty) and skin tissue resurfacing with lasers can also be done with facelift operation.

Some Facelift Tips:

- A restricted level of smoking and drinking should be there before one month of the operation.

- It is recommendable to keep long hair to hide the scars after the surgery.

- It is advisable to stay at least a week or so in the nursing home, though it will take nearly one month to recover fully.

- To drain out the excess fluid, though not all the times, some bulbs are attached.

- Aspirin or anticoagulants must not be taken before the operation.

- The medical facts should be discussed with the surgeon before the operation.

- Have your facial skin lifted only by the surgeons belonging to the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists or to any other National Association.

The previously mentioned tips must be complied with to ward off difficult conditions like bleeding, facial nerve damaging, necrosis, and hair loss near the incision.