A brow lift is a cosmetic procedure to change the appearance of your forehead and eyebrows. With age, we all go through lots of physical changes and so do with the skin.People can have frown lines, creases on the forehead and sagging eyebrows which makes them look tired, angry or sleepy. Typically, in this situation the brows move down and the distance between eyebrows and eyelids decreases. This leads to a sad, serious and angry overall appearance. 

A brow lift helps the patient to acquire the new contours of eyebrows and lift the forehead area which is why it is also called Forehead lift. This surgical cosmetic procedure aims to give a new youthful and rejuvenated appearance to the area above the eyes. It may be performed for functional reasons when in case the droopy skin of eyebrows and eyelids hinder the patient's vision or someone is having facial paralysis. It is performed on thousands of people every year.

It can be combined with other facial procedures like face lift, eyelid surgery and neck lift. Your surgeon will guide you if you can go for a combination procedure or not. 

A skilled and experienced surgeon can perform this brow lift procedure after developing a personalized approach for you. This procedure has different techniques and your surgeon can decide the most appropriate technique for you depending upon your health, your goals & expectations and most importantly the degree of sagging skin.

Here different techniques of brow lift are elaborated:-

Open brow lift: - This technique is also called Classic or Coronal brow lift. This is not suitable for the people who have thin hair or lose their hair. It is also not preferred when a patient has a high hairline. After giving anesthesia, your surgeon will make an incision which will be from one ear to another on the frontal hairline. You must discuss the scar and recovery beforehand with your surgeon.

Hairline brow lift: - This technique is used when a patient has higher hairlines. Your surgeon will make the incisions between the beginning of your hairline and the top of your forehead. Then the forehead is lifted in such a way that your hairline is not pulled back. The incisions are then closed with stitches. Your scar might be visible along the hairline. Make sure to talk about this to your surgeon prior to the surgery.

Endoscopic brow lift: - This technique involves fewer incisions which means it is less invasive and will have less downtime.  You will not have scars issues as incisions will be hidden in the scalp. The surgeon will make small and short incisions in the scalp. He will insert a scope which is a thin tube attached to the camera into one incision. 

Lateral or temporal brow lift: - This technique is less invasive out of all. Your surgeon will work only on the outer one-third portion of the brow. This is performed under local anesthesia. Your surgeon will make a small incision within the hair line. Then the outer brow portion will be lifted and contoured. Incisions will be closed afterwards. It will also have less recovery period as it involves fewer incisions.

Your surgeon will figure out the situation and decide on your eligibility of being a right candidate for brow lift. He will give you some pre-operative instructions that you need to adhere to. This will help you to recover quickly and easily without any kind of complication. 

The Brow-lift procedure will take about 1 to 3 hours. You may go home after some hours of the surgery or you may stay for one or two days at the hospital. This will be your surgeon’s call depending upon your condition and response your body gave to the medicines. 

Your surgeon will choose the most appropriate technique to perform on you. Your recovery period span will typically depend upon the technique performed.  The treated area will have bandages to minimize the swelling. A small tube could be placed along the incision site to drain out the excess fluid and blood. Your surgeon will remove it at the right time. 

Your stitches will be removed in 7 to 10 days. Nevertheless, you should start taking a bath when your surgeon allows; till then you must avoid making the treated area wet and take a normal bath.

Result

Your surgeon will allow you to resume your normal activities after 10 to 15 days. Keep in mind that your final results will be clearly visible after 5 to 6 months.
A skilled and experienced surgeon will take all the precautions to avoid all such complications and risks. Therefore you must ensure to choose the surgeon with great consideration.

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