Neck Lift in Highlands

• Are you interested in face rejuvenation and cosmetic surgery in Highlands, North Carolina?
  Dr. Buchanan and his exceptional team at the Center for Plastic Surgery have expertise in a broad range of procedures, for both non-surgical and surgical rejuvenation.

• As the skin ages, it allows other factors to have greater effect on the tissues of the face and body.
  In the face, where the muscles of expression attach to the skin, these muscles cause wrinkles and lines to appear. Gravity also pulls the skin, with the sagging tissues causing folds and lines. To reverse the changes caused by sun-damage and aging, and to help you achieve flawless, youthful skin, we offer the latest techniques for face rejuvenation and cosmetic surgery in Highlands, North Carolina.

• If you are interested in non-invasive facial rejuvenation, we offer injections of BOTOX® Cosmetic and dermal fillers, such as Radiesse®, Juvéderm®, and human fat.
  While Botox® reduces wrinkles by stopping the movement of muscle beneath the skin, dermal fillers work by restoring volume to aging skin. For optimum wrinkle and contour correction, we combine these different type of injectables in Today’s Liquid Lift™ .

• At the Center for Plastic Surgery
  we also offer the very latest in light and laser procedures, to remove the wrinkles and scars that skin care or peels do not easily correct. These include the Luxor® Specialized CO2 Laser, and the Ellipse IPL®

• When you visit us for face rejuvenation and cosmetic surgery in Highlands
  North Carolina, you can also benefit from Dr. Buchanan’s outstanding surgical expertise. He developed Today’s Facelift™, an alternative to the traditional facelift that is personalized to your needs for a fresher, more youthful, natural, and rested look. This exciting, revolutionary procedure is able to correct both the lower face and neck, with less visible scarring and faster recovery than the traditional facelift. Today’s Facelift™ is an excellent choice if you need a neck lift, want a “touch up” at a younger age, or have already had a facelift.

• Dr. Buchanan can also improve your appearance and turn back time with a facelift
  forehead lift, eyelid surgery, liposuction of the neck, rhinoplasty, lip enhancement, chin augmentation, or otoplasty (ear surgery).

• To transform your outer appearance and inner confidence with face rejuvenation and cosmetic surgery in Highlands, North Carolina, please contact us to make an appointment today.

Facelift

• You should look as good as you feel. In time, gravity, sun exposure, and the stresses of daily life take their toll on your face:
  deep creases appear around the mouth, the cheeks hollow, the jaw line slackens, folds and fat deposits appear in the neck.

• Our modern Facelift
  Today’s Facelift™, developed from the MACS Lift from Belgium, the Quicklift®, the Lifestyle Lift® and others (including that of Dr. John Ransom Lewis’ of Atlanta) overcomes the problems of previous facelifts. It: provides a Natural alternative to the traditional facelift, is personalized to your individual needs, elevates the fat and underlying support structures back to where they originally were (not backward like older facelifts), redefines the jawline, firms and tightens the neck, permanently resuspends the tissues for a longer lasting result, redrapes the skin upward, recreating a fresher, more youthful, natural and rested look.

• Our goal is to provide you the correction you desire, with as natural an appearance as possible.
  We want you to look like you have had a great vacation, not like you had surgery. The incision is kept as short as possible depending on how lax your neck skin is. This is done with less skin undermining, and, thus, less risk and faster recovery. This procedure is ideal for correcting the neck. Thus, if you think you only need a neck lift, Today’s Facelift™ is a better answer, as it corrects the lower face as well as the neck, and does so with less visible scar, the same or less surgery and generally faster recovery. Today’s Facelift is also an excellent choice if you need just a “touch up” at a younger age or have already had a facelift.

• To achieve complete rejuvenation, your skin, eyes and/or brow may need separate treatment.
  Browlift, eyelid surgery, or nose reshaping can provide you even more dramatic results. Incisions are made in inconspicuous places such as behind the hairline and in natural folds where they generally fade to near invisibility in time.

• Results of a facelift do not last forever.
  However, Today’s Facelift, like its predecessor the MACS Lift, is designed to significantly slow the continued effects of gravity by suspending the face from solid fixed points on bone, not mobile soft tissue like other procedures do. For those who do have a recurrence of the problems that prompted a previous facelift or just want to “freshen” your appearance, Today’s Facelift™ provides improved results, more safety, and correction of many of the stigmata associated with previous facelifts.

Today’s Facelift™ has a number of distinct advantages.

• It is applicable to everyone by modifying the technique slightly.

• It corrects minimal aging with a minimal incision.

• It corrects even severe aging of the cheek and neck.

• It is ideal for redo’s correcting many of the problems of older procedures.

• It repositions the fat to its normal position rather than removing it.

• It is safer than older facelifts since there is less skin undermining and less chance to injure the facial nerve (the nerve controlling facial motion).

• It prevents the loss of the sideburn and descent of the earlobe found in previous facelifts.

• It provides excellent correction of the neck.

• The results are superior to and longer lasting than most other procedures.

• You can expect to be able to return to most normal activities including work or social engagements within a week or two.

Forehead Lift

• Forehead Lift (Browlift), including Endoscopy in Highlands, NC
• A forehead lift
  or browlift, can revitalize your drooping or lined forehead, the area between the eyebrows and, to some extent, the upper eyelids and lateral eye area helping you to look less angry, sad or tired. We can: remove or alter the muscles between your eyes, smoothing the lines between the eyebrows, release the forces pulling your brows down raising your eyebrows for a more youthful appearance, minimize the creases in the forehead, remove hooding from the upper eyelids, and reduce the lateral “crow’s feet” beside the eyes.

• You can combine the procedure with other operations such as blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and facelift to improve the look of your eyes and other areas of your face.
  However, if the descent of your brow, which pushes the brow tissue into the upper eyelid areas, is the main cause of your upper eyelid problem, then you may need only the browlift to correct both the brow and the upper eyelids.

• We generally perform the full procedure in a minimally invasive manner
  using four or five short incisions hidden in the hair, and an endoscope, a slim instrument with a camera on the end. This reduces scars, hair loss and numbness and generally provides you excellent improvement and fast recovery while maintaining a natural appearance. We actually strive to place your eyebrows where you naturally hold them, but without having to use the wrinkle causing muscles of the forehead to do so. You should be able to return to most activities in a few days with minimal, or easily concealed bruising. For those not needing a total browlift, a modification using only lateral incisions, again, hidden in the hair, can provide excellent correction of the more lateral problems. There are also modifications for those with a high hairline, including elevation of the brow through a blepharoplasty incision.

Eyelid Surgery (Blepharoplasty)

• Since “the eyes reveal the soul,” what do yours say about you? Do they convey your inner emotion and vitality, or do they make you look sad, tired or both? As we age:
  he tissues around the eyes stretch and descend as far as ligaments allow, the skin wrinkles, in extreme cases, sagging upper lid skin can interfere with vision, the fat becomes prominent in the lower lid and in the medial upper lid, attachments to bone create the characteristic bags and elongated lower lid, we look sad, tired and/or listless, hiding our inner vitality.

• Some of us inherit excess fat which further hides our normal sparkle.
  By removing excess or repositioning fat, skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids, blepharoplasty can rejuvenate your puffy, sagging or tired-looking eyes by: removing congenital excess fat, removing and tightening loose or sagging skin, tightening the sagging lid itself, correcting the bags under the eyes, and removing fine wrinkles.

• Blepharoplasty is typically a cosmetic procedure but can also improve vision by lifting droopy eyelids out of your field of vision. If you have surrounding problems, we can occasionally:
  raise your eyebrows some, reduce the appearance of wrinkles between your eyebrows, make you look less tired, or correct some crow’s feet through an upper blepharoplasty incision with modifications of the procedure.

• Lower blepharoplasty will usually correct the dark circles under your eyes allowing you to look younger and more vibrant.
  Newer techniques give you better results that last longer and avoid many of the problems of the older methods. You can combine this procedure with others such as a facelift, forehead lift and/or BOTOX® Cosmetic treatments to achieve other desired results. When done alone, we usually perform the procedure as an outpatient. You should be able to wear makeup and return to the public in 4-5 days. The fine incisions usually virtually disappear within several months.

Neck Liposuction

• Occasionally the neck can be rejuvenated with Liposuction alone.
  This works best in the young with elastic skin, but can make a considerable difference in someone older who has a significant amount of fat in the upper neck. We frequently do this as an office procedure under local anesthesia. Recovery is rapid.

Rhinoplasty

• Noses are very individual and their shape and appearance can reflect your heritage or be the result of an injury.
  If your nose does not fit your face, rhinoplasty, one of the most common plastic surgery procedures, can: reshape, reduce or augment your nose, change the size or width to improve the balance between your nose and face, remove a hump or fill a depression, change the size, shape or position of the tip, narrow or change the width, size and/or shape of your nostrils change the angle between your nose and lips, correct breathing abnormalities, or correct deviations.

• These better physical proportions can have a dramatic impact on how you feel about yourself.
  A rhinoplasty can be purely cosmetic or can correct injury, birth defects, or other problems that affect your breathing.

• Rhinoplasty is usually an outpatient procedure performed under light general anesthesia and lasts two to three hours, unless extensive work needs to be done on the airway.
  Insurance may cover rhinoplasty if external remodeling is done for reconstruction, or if the procedure, including internal airways remodeling, is performed to correct breathing problems, but not when done for cosmetic purposes.

Lip Enhancement

• Full lips are sensual and a sign of youth. As we age:
  the upper lip elongates, the definition of the border flattens and the lip becomes flat or, even, concave, the philtrum columns are lost, lines appear, and the fullness of both lips is diminished.

• We now have a variety of techniques available to enhance your lips, giving them a naturally fuller, sexier, more youthful appearance.

• Replacement of lost substance with Juvéderm® Injectable Gel offers excellent immediate results.
  Although your body will eventually absorb much of what is injected, each subsequent treatment is usually less than the preceding one. Treatments generally last about 10 months, but results can be quite different from person to person. We perform the injections in the office using numbing. You can return immediately to your normal activities.

• If you desire a more permanent solution, we can use fat, “Alloderm®,” a solid modified collagen sheet, as a graft or a soft solid silicone implant.
  These techniques are relatively permanent, although touch-ups may be required from time to time to maintain desired fullness.

• For the upper lip, another option is excision of a strip of the stretched upper lip skin, hiding the scar at the lip or nose junction.
  This turns the red of the lip out, and can even give you a smiling appearance. All of these procedures are performed under local anesthesia in our office surgical suite. You are able to return to most normal activities following the procedure, but, if you elect to use a sedative, you will need someone to drive you home. Swelling and some bruising will be present immediately following the procedure and can take a week or two to disappear completely. We can, however, show you how to easily disguise this with makeup.

Chin Augmentation

• If you lack a chin that balances and defines your face, a modern, solid implant can correct the problem and mimic normal bone.
  Your particular problem determines the specific implant used. This is also an excellent compliment to Rhinoplasty, since increasing your chin prominence makes your nose appear smaller and balances facial features. This is a simple outpatient procedure with rapid recovery.

Ear Surgery (Otoplasty)

• Most ear surgery procedures in the past were performed to correct congenital problems such as
  “lop ear,” “cupped ear” and “shell ear,” to set prominent ears back closer to the head, or to reduce the size of large ears. When done for these problems, we recommend the surgery be done at about five years of age, when the ears are mature but before significant teasing occurs. The procedure in children generally lasts from two to three hours and may be performed as an outpatient in the hospital under general anesthesia.

• These procedures are also appropriate for adults who did not have access to them as a child.
  Many of the same techniques are also applicable to problems in adults caused by aging or previous facelift. Some of these problems may include: large or stretched earlobes, lobes with large creases and wrinkles, lobes that have descended on the face, enlarged holes from pierced earrings, and total split of the earlobe.

• We treat most adults in the office as an outpatient using local anesthesia or at the time of revision facelift.
  Most people can resume normal activities immediately, as the sutures are usually hidden behind or on the back edge of the ear, except where we have repaired split or enlarged holes from pierced earrings.

Today’s Liquid Lift

• Wrinkle and Contour Correction
• Do those little worry lines, wrinkles, or folds around the mouth, chin, eyes, forehead or elsewhere in the face or depressions from aging bother you?
  Have your lips lost their definition? Would you like to correct these problems without surgery or just do not think you are ready for a facelift? Do you “need” a facelift but don’t have the time or the money? With the new injectable products and modified techniques using your own fat, we can now provide you results that previously only surgery could. There is no down time and minimal risks.

• Others have jokingly called use of fillers such as
  Juvéderm®, Belotero Balance® and Radiesse® “Liquid Facelift” or “Facelift in a Syringe” because they can almost give you results similar to a facelift. We call our approach “Today’s Liquid Lift” because we go the next step and include Botox® and fat injection in the methods we use to achieve a more relaxed, natural and longer lasting result. We consider more than just the lines around the mouth or between the eyes. Instead, we concentrate on what is causing you the aged appearance and treat what will give you the most optimal reversal of the problem with the least expense. We also use these methods to correct nasal deformities (what some others call a Liquid Rhinoplasty) or improve the aged appearance of the hands.