A Brow lift is a method that is becoming increasingly popular in recent years with people readily looking to get their appearances enhanced for the better. The use of brow lift as a procedure is known to help rejuvenate your forehead skin and give a more youthful contour to your forehead, eyebrows and eye lids. A Brow lift requires an incision; different methods though have different levels of incisions made. One of which is an open brow lift. This blog will highlight all about this kind of brow lift.
What is it and how is it Performed?
Procedures for brow lifts have evolved over the years. Yet one of the classic procedures that carry a huge amount of patient satisfaction with it is open brow lift. In this procedure, the Dr. Kole makes a long incision which can either be around the hairline, or across the upper forehead in the scalp itself. Once that happens, the skin is lifted, the muscles of the forehead are weakened from the inside and then elevated and put on stretch. Then the brow is then re-positioned in its higher position by pulling the skin superiorly before suturing it back in its place.
What are the requirements for a good candidate for an Open Brow Lift?
There are no particular requirements. Each patient is handled on their own individual basis by the surgeons. Yet, there are some of the common requirements of a brow lift and they are outlined below.
- You look angry at all times because the central portion of your brow hangs down.
- There are visible frown lines on your face, primarily between your eyes
- If your brows have been obscured by dropping of your upper lids tissues.
Steps to Take in Preparation of the brow lift procedure
Typically, when you go through a brow lift surgery, there are a number of steps that must be taken beforehand. Kole Plastic Surgery will brief you about all of them in due course. Here are the common pre operation instructions that you may get.
- Restrict and limit the consumption of alcohol, as well as staying away from certain medications.
- Medicines such as aspirin or others that have an anti inflammatory effect will need to be stopped before the surgery because these medicines increase the risk of heavy bleeding.
- The most important thing is keeping oneself hydrated before the surgery. As long as you are hydrated, the chances of safe recovery are higher.
- You will need to stop smoking since smoking can make your healing tougher and recovery more complicated as smoking decreases blood supply to the skin.
- The first two days after the surgery, you need to have people ready to assist you.
- Post surgery demands need to be met pre surgery with prepared meals, fluids and pillows to keep your head elevated.
For more information on the brow lift procedure and to schedule a complimentary consultation with Kole Plastic Surgery of The Kole Plastic Surgery Center Center, contact us at 215-315-7655 today! We are conveniently located at [primary_address], Southampton, PA, Bucks County, PA at the junction of Philadelphia, Montgomery County and Bucks County.
