What is the difference between a QT Mini Face Lift and a more traditional full face lift?

First off, with the QT Mini Face Lift less incisions, about a third less incisions involved than in a full face lift. Secondly, less bruising, less recovery time, less surgical manipulation of the tissues. That is where the differences end. The similarities which are a lot of the great things about both of those procedures are that they both tighten the face, the jaw line and the neck line but also we tighten the muscle layer underneath the skin. This is something fairly unique to the QT Mini Face Lift that we’ve incorporated from our techniques in using full face lifting. The area of the muscle that we talk about is called the smas. It is a strong muscular area located underneath the skin. So once we lift the skin, we tighten that muscle layer. That is really what builds in the contours into the jaw line, tightens the neck line across the entire face. Before mini lifts really came into vogue, these were done with what was really called skin lifts where the skin was just lifted up, brought back and sewed into place. This worked very effectively. The drawback to this was that it didn’t last. It lasted a couple of months. Now that we incorporate the techniques we pulled over from traditional face lifting, we get the longevity out of a mini lift that we’ve seen that we’ve seen in traditional face lifting for years.

Doctors William E. Silver, M.D., F.A.C.S. and Louis M. DeJoseph, M.D.