Ultrasonic SMAS lifting using the ULTRAFORMER III device

Who is this genius?

The surgical technique, which has become an alternative to the classic circular facelift, is the brainchild of Australian plastic surgeon Brian Mendelson. He believes that we look older not so much because of wrinkles, but because of the age-related loss of elasticity of the skin and the structures located under it. The swollen oval of the face reveals years more than wrinkles. Mendelssohn introduced the concept of physiological space - the same “space” that gave technology its name. The spaces in the facial structure (in the area of ​​the cheekbones, cheeks, chin) allow muscles, ligaments and skin to move freely depending on our facial movements. But over time, the tissues sag and lose their elasticity. The result is an uneven and unaesthetic facial contour. Microsurgical pinpoint work in the area of ​​these spaces without affecting other tissues makes it possible to restore youth.

Special facial plastic surgery: Mendelssohn lift

Most classic plastic surgeries have long had improved versions. New techniques appear constantly and eliminate long and painful surgical procedures for the patient. Thus, the Mendelssohn lift, which appeared just a few years ago, risks becoming a full-fledged replacement for a facelift.

This anti-aging surgery has benefits that can truly change the face of surgical facial rejuvenation. Firstly, the rehabilitation period is reduced to a minimum. Secondly, the doctor works with the cause of age-related changes, and not with their manifestations. Thirdly, the result is so natural that hardly any strangers will be able to notice the intervention of a plastic surgeon. Let's tell you in order.

Working with voids

How a standard facelift works: the surgeon cuts the tissue, separates it and tightens it. In this case, the nerves and blood vessels are injured, so that bruising and swelling take quite a long time to disappear. Now this method can already be called prehistoric. Mendelssohn lifting uses a more subtle approach. The point is that the surgeon does not “stretch” the face, but carefully returns the tissue to its youthful position. The skin exfoliates minimally, and the work takes place in special layers of tissue where there are no vessels and nerves. Endoscopic equipment is used to find these empty layers. And when an endoscope is used, long incisions are not needed - a puncture or incision up to 2 cm long is enough.

Naturalness

The method allows you to look younger without the risk of facial tension. As a result, the tissues return to their anatomically correct position. That is, to where they were before they went down. In fact, by looking at your photographs from 10-15 years ago, you can understand what your face will look like after the Mendelssohn lift.

Photos before and after facial plastic surgery using the Mendelssohn method

Results provided by the Mediaesthetic Clinic. Surgeon – Tarasenko Vasily Sergeevich. One of the few plastic surgeons in Russia who owns the technique. Look for more works on the website.

Rehabilitation

The most important point of any operation is rehabilitation. Spacelifting is characterized by a short, easy recovery. A couple of days after the operation you can return to work, and after 2 weeks you can already talk about complete healing. After a classic facelift, you return to your normal lifestyle after 3 weeks, and fully recover only after 2-3 months!

Who is the Mendelssohn lift suitable for?

The operation does not have strict age restrictions. It can be carried out at 55+, then the effect will be most pronounced. But women over 35 years of age who notice signs of gravitational ptosis can undergo a Mendelssohn lift. In this case, aging will stop for 10 years, and during this time you will not have to worry about the sagging oval of the face, nasolabial folds, and wrinkles around the eyes.

What to expect from surgery

During the manipulation, the main visual markers of aging are eliminated:

• Nasolabial grooves
• Drooping corners of the eyes and lips
• Shapeless chin
• Fuzzy oval face.

In addition, the procedure can be combined with other anti-aging surgeries - blepharoplasty, platysmoplasty.

Before and after Mendelssohn lift

Before the operation, the surgeon must collect all information about the patient. The presence of contraindications may cause refusal to perform the operation. Thus, surgery is not performed for chronic diseases in the acute stage, for cancer and infectious diseases, inflammatory processes, diabetes, pathologies of the heart, liver or lungs. To check your health status, you will need to undergo an examination: donate blood and urine, undergo a coalogram, fluorography, and ECG.

For two weeks, it is recommended to give up alcohol and smoking, and eliminate a number of medications (this must be discussed with your doctor).

The operation itself takes 2-4 hours depending on the degree of intervention. A day later the patient returns home. You need to rest at home for a week, and then you can return to your normal lifestyle. On the 14th day, swelling and bruising disappear completely, the stitches can already be hidden with hair (it takes 9-12 months for the stitches to naturally lighten).

The recommendations of the recovery period are not difficult to follow: you need to wear a bandage for 2-3 days, then carefully monitor the condition of the stitches, do not eat salty foods, do not smoke or drink alcohol, minimize physical activity, avoid baths, saunas and solariums.

Look at the real story of rejuvenation using innovative technology:

Preparation for surgery:

The Mendelssohn lift is performed under general anesthesia, so in addition to a set of standard blood and urine tests, you need to do an ECG and obtain permission for the operation from an anesthesiologist. At the first meeting, the plastic surgeon will assess the condition of the skin, the severity of ptosis, decide which areas need correction, show where the stitches will be located and give the necessary recommendations for preparing for the intervention. If the patient wants to perform several operations at once “with one anesthesia” - for example, to correct the tip of the nose, the shape of the lips or make corrections on the body - this should also be immediately discussed with the doctor, because spacelifting can be combined with other manipulations. It is also important to inform about the medications that the patient takes on an ongoing basis - then an individual dosage regimen will be selected for him.

How is the operation performed?

Preparation for spacelifting is the same as for any other plastic surgery; there is no need to prepare specially. After you have decided to do spacelifting, you need to take tests 1-2 days before the operation and, if no contraindications are found, feel free to do rejuvenation. Hospital stay for 2 days.

Many people are interested in the question: when is it recommended to have surgery, at what age? Dr. Naumov replies that it is not age that determines the operation, but the patient’s indications and desires.

“To what has been said, I can add that SPACE LIFTING is the latest world-class facial rejuvenation technique and for me it is a priority method:

• it is bloodless;
• “gentle” anesthesia, due to which there are no side effects of anesthesia (such as headaches);
• hidden seam in the ear area, which allows you to use short and high hairstyles;
• fast recovery period;
• maintaining your individuality;
• long lasting results;
• a beautiful, aesthetic, effective operation at the level of art.”

Spacelifting technique:

The patient enters the clinic in the morning on an empty stomach, checks into the ward, and changes clothes. He is given preliminary markings and escorted to the operating room. The surgeon performs spacelifting through several short incisions - no more than 1-3 cm. They are needed to provide access for the endoscope. It is under the control of technology that correction is carried out in the deep layers. The incisions and, accordingly, the sutures will be located along the preauricular groove and in the postauricular fold, protruding literally 1-2 cm into the temporal region. But this area is hidden by hair, so very few people will soon understand that the patient even resorted to surgery. The inserted endoscope allows the surgeon to locally, without touching large vessels and nerves, gently tighten and fix the tissues in the position in which they were before. That is, there is a repositioning of all elements (fat packets, facial muscles), and not just the skin. They return to their original state and are no longer subject to age-related ptosis. In fact, the result is eternal. Moreover, this intervention can be combined with a forehead lift, blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty, facial implants or lipofilling. You can do a spacelift without waiting for obvious age-related changes and at a fairly young age. The advantage of the operation is that it is low-traumatic and preventative - it allows you to slow down aging for a long time in a minimally short rehabilitation period. And the intervention itself lasts a maximum of 3 hours in complex cases. Most often, no more than two are required.

Carrying out a facelift

You can watch a video that shows the entire Mendelssohn rejuvenation process. In general, the operation lasts no more than 3 hours. It consists of several stages:

• Marking the treated surface with a marker so that the doctor can see the lifting areas.
• Administration of intravenous anesthesia and local anesthesia of the operated area.
• Treatment of the dermis with antiseptic agents. It is done not only before the operation, but also several times during the operation to minimize the risk of infection.
• Making a small incision in the area of ​​the auricle. Insertion of an endoscope with a camera attached to the end into the opened access.
• Alternately tightening and securing all “spaces”. If necessary, excision of excess skin.
• Stitching, finishing with antiseptics.

Since the patient is under anesthesia all the time, the lift itself does not cause any discomfort. Minor side effects may only appear during the rehabilitation period, when the anesthesia wears off.

Rehabilitation after spacelifting:

A Mendelssohn facelift is a radical and very effective method of rejuvenation, but it does not entail long and painful rehabilitation. Immediately after the operation, the patient is put on a fixing bandage, similar to a bandage-mask, which is usually removed on the 2-3rd day after agreement with the surgeon. There is no need to install drainage tubes, as with classic braces. On the first day, it is better to be under the supervision of the clinic staff, then you can go home. Patients do not report significant pain or swelling after spacelifting. Slight swelling of the cheeks and neck, minor hematomas disappear approximately on the 5th day. In general, you can return to work life within 10 days after the operation. By this time, all stitches are usually removed. In the first 7-10 days, it is recommended to limit facial movements and sleep on a higher pillow than before, and - very important - on your back. This will prevent swelling, stress on the stitches and pain. It is also better to exclude mechanical and thermal effects on the face for about a month: massages, baths, aggressive cosmetic procedures and limit intense physical activity.

Complex therapy

As noted above, space lifting does not cope very well with multiple small wrinkles. Therefore, experts often suggest making it only part of a comprehensive rejuvenation system.

The operation is ideally complemented by biorevitalization or fractional laser lifting, which restore the epidermis. But the price of such a course will be up to several thousand dollars. But it guarantees excellent and long-lasting results.

Botox injections can also partially smooth out remaining wrinkles. But then they will have to be done regularly, since they only provide visual rejuvenation.

Courses of hardware procedures also help to preserve the results of spacelifting longer. Moreover, if you have portable devices, they can be taken at home.

Indications for the procedure

First of all, the procedure was developed to combat age-related changes in the face. It is indicated for:

• sagging cheeks and vertical wrinkles on them;
• the appearance of deep nasolabial folds;
• pronounced double chin;
• lack of clear boundaries between the face and neck;
• excess fat on the neck and cheeks;
• drooping corners of the eyes and lips;
• sagging, loss of firmness and elasticity of the skin.

However, Mendelssohn himself insists that it can also be performed for preventive purposes. If the patient has a genetic tendency to premature aging, then you should not wait until the process comes into full force.

A timely operation will visually reduce the passport age by several years.

Spacelifting. Surgery from a plastic surgery guru

Dr. Naumov is a board-certified surgeon with over 30 years of experience. Over the years of his work, Vladimir Viktorovich has successfully performed more than 7,000 operations, including space lifting. Hundreds of grateful clients, numerous prizes and awards in the field of plastic surgery and facial correction, an individual approach to the client and unique surgical techniques leave no doubt about the professionalism of Doctor Naumov.

Vladimir Viktorovich is one of the few specialists who performs plastic face lifting using the Brian Mendelson technique.

How much does a lift cost? You can find reviews and prices for this procedure on the website or during an in-person consultation with Dr. Naumov. The final cost of the procedure will be told to you only after an examination by the surgeon and a personal consultation, since much depends on the individual characteristics of the patient’s body.

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Contraindications

• Pregnancy and lactation;
• Systemic connective tissue diseases (scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.);
• General infectious diseases and skin lesions in the areas of intended treatment;
• Implanted pacemaker or hearing aid, piercing;
• Oncological formations;

• Decompensated diabetes mellitus;
• Epilepsy and other pathologies with increased convulsive readiness;
• bleeding disorders or taking anticoagulants;
• Tendency to form keloid scars;
• Contour plastic surgery performed in the correction area, if the filler has not yet resolved.

Advantages

If we compare the ULTRAFORMER device with similar predecessor devices, then this is third-generation equipment.
This means that it uses more modern and effective technology, which provides high-quality and pronounced lifting, no rehabilitation period, comfort during the procedure and other features dictated by the specifics of the new device. The procedure using ULTRAFORMER is much more comfortable due to the special form of impulse delivery. The patient does not feel any discomfort. No local anesthesia is required.

SMAS-lifting ULTRAFORMER is carried out in a continuous mode, the procedure is quick: for example, facial treatment takes 20-25 minutes.