4D Facelift

The 4D Facelift(TM) is a trademarked procedure to rejuvenate the face and provide natural, soft results while withstanding the test of time.

The 4D facelift aims to correct all the root causes of aging including:

1. Loss of volume
2. Falling of the midface fat pad
3. Laxity along the jawline
4. Increase of cheek volume with decreased definition of the cheeks
5. Laxity in the neck

Please see the attached videos of a patient undergoing a 4D Facelift including preoperative analysis, creation of the surgical game-plan, a 7 day postoperative result, a 2 month postoperative result, and a patient testimonial.

Witness an incredible transformation with our latest 4D facelift Plastic Surgery procedure! In this video, we showcase the dramatic before and after results of a full face rejuvenation, highlighting the effectiveness of advanced cosmetic techniques.

Our 4D facelift goes beyond traditional methods, offering a comprehensive approach to revitalizing your appearance. From tightening sagging skin to restoring youthful contours and smoothing wrinkles, this innovative procedure delivers a natural and refreshed look without the need for invasive surgery.

This is a 55-year-year-old woman who shows up to my office requesting facial rejuvenation. She states that she is extremely energetic. She works out, she has a full-time job. She does everything that she has always done. However, the problem is that when she sees herself in the mirror, there's a bit of a disconnect between the amount of energy she has on the inside versus what she looks like in the mirror. She comes in requesting to have both of those match a little bit more closely.

We analyzed her, and we basically...This is what we came up with.

First of all, when we look at her top to bottom, we see that there's a little bit of fullness right here in the upper eyelid region. She has these beautiful blue eyes, and this little amount of fullness makes those eyes look a little tired. It's worse so here on the right-hand side.

But this is not really excess skin as much as it is flattening of the lateral eyebrow. The next thing that we can see is that with volume loss and aging, basically what's happened is this little fat pad here, which is the malar cheek fat pad, has descended down.

So where this volume used to be way up high in here, it has started coming down, and you see the fullness in this region rather than way up high. The young, rejuvenated face has a lot of volume up high and is very sharp and defined down at the bottom, almost like the shape of a heart.

And as we age, that volume starts coming down. We get more of a rectangle or squarish or oval face as that volume starts showing up down here. Overall, her jawline, if we take a look here, her jawline looks okay. There is some amount of that fullness in here, and there is some laxity definitely in the neck as she bends down.

So after analyzing her, talking to her, we came up with a surgical game plan, and this is what that surgical game plan looks like.

Most of our surgical procedures for facial rejuvenation are done with local anesthesia with oral sedation. And what we decided to do on her is a 4D facelift. This is a procedure that we do, and it includes the following: a deep plane facelift to really rejuvenate this portion of the face, a deep plane neck lift give her a sharp defined neck, structural fat transfer to re-volumize that lost volume in the face, and a regenerative stem cell protocol to really turn back time.

Some of the additional procedures we ended up doing is a temporal brow lift to highlight those eyes and lower eyelid surgery to soften some of the lower eyelid issues that she had.

And here she is.

Here she is at about seven to eight days after surgery. You can see that that volume She has been repositioned up here. We've even filled in some of this area with fat. She's also filled in this area with fat, so she has a lot of volume in that midface. The eyes look wide open. Between here and here, you can clearly see that the eyes just look more rejuvenated. Sharper jawline, neckline. And you can just, overall, she seems younger, more happy, more rejuvenated.

On the profile view, you can clearly see the sharpness in the neck, definitely on the bent view, you can even see that she's freshly post-op with a little bit of pinkness still visible in those incisions.

Here she is a few months later, still holding on to a lot of that volume, sharp along the jawline.

I can't stop her from smiling. She's truly very happy with her result. Every picture I have of her afterwards always shows her smiling. But you can clearly see the profile view, the sharpness in the jawline, lots of definition, lots of volume up here, and the sharpness in the neckline, even on the downward gaze.

Another key take home point, you can really see how that incision has healed very nicely. She has a softness to her face, which is a lot of that volume and structural fat grafting, and her eyes look wide open.

This is why it is so imperative to come up with a surgical game plan that is unique for each and every patient. So even though I said we did her 4D facelift, which is something I do very commonly, that procedure is just a name and is really tailored to each and every patient.

So if you're interested in facial rejuvenation, please don't hesitate to give us a call. We'd love to chat with you and go through the same process in you to give long-standing results that not only look natural on you, but just really look like we've turned the clock back.

Thank you very much, and I hope this has been extremely informative for you.

Patient Testimonial:

“I am about two months out from having a full facelift, neck lift, lower face, upper eyelid facelift and lower eyelids. I originally came to see Dr. Athre because I was concerned about the skin around my eyes, and I thought I had jowls and just a lot of excess skin. My friend had recently just had a facelift with Dr. Athre and she looked amazing. So I thought I would come and see what Dr. Athre could do for me.

And I'm really thrilled that I did because he filled my face with fat and he made my face look more full, more plump, and I see less wrinkles, and what I thought were jowls are gone now. He also put some lip filler in.

I was very nervous about the lips. I told him, I don't want to have really big lips, and he made them look very natural. And so I'm very thrilled with the progress that my face has made so far. During the procedure, when he was doing the lower eyelid pinch, there was some Bellafil leftover from a previous procedure, and he had to basically do reconstructive surgery on my lower eyelid, which made me a little nervous what it was going to look like at the end, but he did a fabulous job, and you can't tell at all that there was excess swelling on that side, and that I had a complication due to prior procedures, and he made my eyes look significantly better than what they did before, and I couldn't be more happy.”