A facelift is a form of cosmetic surgery that changes a person's appearance by aiming to reduce lines, wrinkles, and other visible signs of aging. While your face might be less lined and possibly appear more youthful after the operation, a facelift doesn't stop the aging process.

A facelift is a surgical procedure to lift and tighten the face and neck tissues and reduce sagging skin on a person's face. The operation might also involve:

• tightening of facial muscles

• removing or redistributing fat from the neck, jowls and face

• taking fat from other parts of the body, such as the abdomen, and putting it in areas like the cheeks.

A facelift is also known as a meloplasty or rhytidectomy.

The type of facelift procedure you have will depend on what you have agreed with your surgeon. You will be given a local or general anesthetic.

Full or traditional facelift: The surgeon is likely to make an incision that follows your hairline from the temples, around the ears and down to the lower scalp. If needed, a small incision may also be made under your chin to give access to the neck.

The surgeon will then raise the skin away from the face and reposition the underlying muscle and tissue. They might remove or redistribute facial and neck fat.

Sometimes fat collected by liposuction from elsewhere in the body, such as the abdomen, may be used to plump up the cheeks or other parts of the face.

The surgeon redrapes the skin over the face and neck and trims any excess skin. They sew, clip or tape the incisions up and apply a dressing. Sometimes a small thin drainage tube is placed under the skin to remove excess blood or fluid.

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