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Tips for Your Facelift or Mini Facelift Consultation

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smiling-female-faceAs the years go by, we each notice signs of aging here and there and watch time slowly take its toll. For many, their aging appearance doesn’t reflect how youthful and energized they feel. If that’s true for you or if you just prefer to look younger, a facelift or Band Aid Mini Facelift could be the perfect way to get the results you want. Your journey toward a revitalized look begins with a consultation.

Your facelift or mini facelift consultation is an excellent opportunity for you to get a view of what your procedure will entail and make sure you’re heading down the right path. As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in facelifts, I’m happy to help you plan for your facelift consultation. Follow these tips to make your consultation more productive.

Understand Your Goals

Going into your cosmetic surgery consultation, it’s important to have an understanding of why you’re there and what you should be gaining from your consultation. There are multiple goals for a facelift consultation: to find out which procedure is the best fit for you and the results you want, to find out if the surgeon is the right fit for you, to learn about the procedure and the process ahead, and to get all your questions answered to determine if you are on the right path.

Do Some Homework in Advance

You want to go into your consultation with basic knowledge about the procedure you want, whether it’s a facelift or a type of mini facelift like my signature Band Aid Mini Facelift. Take time to learn about the procedure online and the essentials of how it works. This lets you have a more productive, informed discussion with your surgeon.

Organize Your Thoughts

You’re probably wondering about many questions related to your procedure – what to expect, whether it’s safe, how long it will take to heal, and so on. Even if they all seem like questions that will come up naturally during your consultation, it helps to jot them down in a list. Surgical consultations are intimidating to many people, so you may have more trouble remembering your questions in the moment.

Gather Relevant Medical Information

Your health is an important factor in plastic surgery and in guiding your surgeon’s recommendations, so be prepared to discuss it at your consultation. Write down everything you can about your medical history. This includes any current or past medical conditions, all medications you’re taking including herbs and vitamin supplements, any allergies, your family medical history, and any past procedures you’ve had, whether they were medical or cosmetic.

Bring Pictures

During your consultation, you’ll be discussing the results you want so your surgeon can plan a procedure that’s tailored to your goals. To make this easier and ensure that you’re on the same page with your surgeon, it helps to have pictures of generally how you’d like to look. For a facelift or mini facelift, it’s best to bring pictures of yourself when you were younger. All of these photos will allow you to have a candid discussion with your surgeon to determine if what you have in mind is possible.

Keep in mind that these photos are a guide, not an image to be photocopied. Your surgeon will work with your specific anatomy to create the most natural-looking, attractive results for you, so don’t expect to look exactly like those photos after your surgery.

Relax and Keep an Open Mind

Most importantly, relax and be calm during your consultation. You’re simply having an informative, educational conversation. You won’t be pressured to make any decisions you aren’t prepared to make and you don’t need to be intimidated by the surgeon. Simply relax and expect to have an open, honest dialogue.

Your facelift or mini facelift consultation is a vital step in the journey toward a refreshed, revitalized appearance. The tips above can make it a more productive experience for both you and your surgeon. If you’re ready to get started, schedule a facial rejuvenation consultation with me, Dr. John LeRoy. Follow me on Facebook for more plastic surgery tips.

Your Ultimate Guide to the Band Aid Mini Facelift

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Band Aid Facelift with Dr. John LeRoyIf you look in the mirror and find that you look older than you feel or find yourself wishing you could turn back the clock on your facial aging, you may have started exploring your options. With the medical technology and advancements today, there are many treatments and procedures that can help you look younger, but one of the most balanced and successful options is my unique Band Aid Mini Facelift. To help you learn everything you need to know about this surgery, I’ve put together the ultimate guide to the Band Aid Mini Facelift.

What Is the Band Aid Mini Facelift and What Makes It Unique?

The Band Aid Mini Facelift is a unique cosmetic surgery I developed over 25 years ago and have been performing with exceptional success ever since. This procedure is a variation of the traditional facelift that incorporates minimally invasive techniques, allowing me to perform the surgery in-office using gentle numbing rather than performing it in a hospital or surgery center with general anesthesia. You’ll be awake and resting comfortably throughout the procedure.

What Is the Purpose of the Band Aid Mini Facelift?

The aim of the Band Aid Mini Facelift is to take a more incremental, natural approach to facial rejuvenation. Because a traditional facelift is a rather substantial surgery, patients often wait until their facial aging has progressed dramatically and then hope to fix 20 years of aging in one surgery. The Band Aid Mini Facelift, on the other hand, is designed to be a more manageable procedure you receive about every ten years. This allows you to enjoy more natural-looking results at more consistent intervals so you continue to look your best decade after decade.

I also offer an even more incremental version of the procedure, called a Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift. This surgery is meant for patients who just want to update their look every few years instead of waiting about ten years for their next Band Aid Mini Facelift.

How Long Is the Band Aid Mini Facelift Recovery?

Because it’s a minimally invasive surgery, my Band Aid Mini Facelift allows you to get back on your feet in about half as much time compared to a traditional facelift. After a traditional facelift, it can take two, three, or even four weeks for you to get back to work and your typical daily activities. After a Band Aid Mini Facelift, most patients return to work after just a week. Keep in mind, however, that there are many factors that affect the recovery time based on each individual and their lifestyle, so there is no way to give an exact timeframe.

How Much Does a Band Aid Mini Facelift Cost?

The Band Aid Mini Facelift is not only more convenient than a traditional facelift – it’s more cost-effective too. In fact, a Band Aid Mini Facelift costs about half the price of a traditional facelift surgery.

This is because a traditional surgery includes three primary costs: the surgeon’s fee, the operating room fee, and the anesthesia fees. Because a Band Aid Mini Facelift is performed in-office and uses gentle numbing rather than general anesthesia, you don’t have those added costs, which account for about half the price of a traditional facelift.

How Can I Receive a Band Aid Mini Facelift?

If you believe a Band Aid Mini Facelift may be the answer to your concerns about facial aging, the next step is to schedule a consultation with me, Dr. John LeRoy, at my Atlanta office. We’ll discuss the surgery in more detail, talk about whether you’re a candidate for the procedure, and address any questions you may have so you’ll feel comfortable with the entire process.

To schedule your consultation, call my plastic surgery office. For more insights into cosmetic surgery and my Band Aid line of procedures, follow me on Facebook.

Common Cosmetic Issues a Band Aid Mini Facelift Can Treat

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Signs It’s Time for a Facelift SurgeryFor many patients, plastic surgery feels like a strong leap of faith because of the recovery period, the procedure itself, and the cost. One of my top passions as a double board-certified plastic surgeon has been to allow patients to get the confidence-boosting cosmetic results they want without the recovery time and cost of a traditional facelift. It was that mission that drove me to create my signature Band Aid Mini Facelift over 25 years ago, using minimally invasive techniques and in-office gentle numbing rather than general anesthesia, and I have been performing it with great success ever since.

If you’re considering a Band Aid Mini Facelift, you may be curious about the aesthetic concerns that this procedure can address. While it is a versatile procedure that I customize for each patient’s desired results, below are the primary cosmetic concerns that this minimally invasive surgery can address.

A Sagging Jawline

As we get older, our skin loses its firmness and eventually succumbs to the effects of gravity. While the skin is sagging throughout your face, that excess skin tends to collect and be most visible at the jawline. This is why we develop jowls as we age.

During my Band Aid Mini Facelift, I remove excess sagging skin and give the entire lower face and mid face a refreshing lift. This creates not only a more defined jawline but a smoother, younger appearance throughout your lower and mid face.

Facial Hollows

During the aging process, our skin isn’t the only part of our face that shifts downward. Underlying facial tissue like fat and muscle can decrease with age and may fall from the cheeks into the lower face. This not only creates more bulk around the jawline but creates hollows in the cheeks that may make you look gaunter and harsher.

In my Band Aid Mini Facelift, however, I can restore your facial tissue to a more youthful position. This gives you the natural look of a younger you.

Deep Wrinkles in the Lower Face

Wrinkles can arise from multiple different causes. Some wrinkles are caused by repeated facial expressions over the years, while other wrinkles are primarily the result of your skin losing firmness and thickness with age. A Band Aid Mini Facelift can target the second type of wrinkles throughout your lower face and mid face.

Keep in mind that trying to remove all wrinkles with a Band Aid Mini Facelift or any facelift surgery is impractical and will also lead to an unnatural and uncomfortable result. However, my Band Aid Mini Facelift allows me to create an overall smoother facial contour that still looks natural for you.

How to Address Additional Signs of Aging

You may find that you have other signs of aging that aren’t listed above, such as bags under your eyes or wrinkles in your forehead. How can we address these signs of aging?

In many cases, I can combine a Band Aid Mini Facelift with other surgical or non-surgical treatments to treat a variety of cosmetic concerns in one procedure. For example, my Band Aid Eyelid Surgery combined with my Band Aid Mini Facelift can enhance your overall facial contour while improving bags under your eyes. Cosmetic facial injections like facial fillers, Botox®, or Dysport® can address fine lines and wrinkles that cannot be removed with a Band Aid Mini Facelift.

Regardless of your cosmetic concerns and desired results, the best place to begin is with a plastic surgery consultation. During this appointment, I will listen to your goals and determine the best procedure or procedures to achieve the results you want. Schedule your facial rejuvenation consultation at my Atlanta office today. For more cosmetic surgery insights and tips, follow me on Facebook.

Top Benefits of the Band Aid Mini Facelift

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older-female-with-clear-facial-skinFor hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, cosmetic surgery is a way to regain their confidence and empower them to live their lives without the burden of a nagging self-consciousness. I’m proud to help so many of these people throughout Atlanta and beyond to achieve an outer appearance that matches their inner vitality, and the most common way I accomplish this is with my signature Band Aid Mini Facelift.

My Band Aid Mini Facelift is a unique procedure I developed and have been performing exclusively for over 25 years. I use minimally invasive techniques and gentle localized numbing to provide a less invasive surgical facelift that’s performed in-office, creating strong and natural-looking results without general anesthesia.

For decades, my patients have been thrilled with their Band Aid Mini Facelifts. To determine if this procedure might benefit you, consider these unique advantages the surgery has to offer.

Faster Recovery Time

When you have committed to making a change in your appearance, you want the results to take effect as soon as possible, and you don’t want to put your life on hold for weeks in the meantime. My Band Aid Mini Facelift offers about half the recovery time of a traditional facelift. In a typical surgery, your body must recover not only from the surgery but from the general anesthesia too and everything associated with it.

Fewer Anesthesia Anxieties

Many people are fearful of general anesthesia because they worry about extremely rare yet possible complications and about their bodies being outside of their control. For some, this anxiety prevents them from getting a cosmetic surgery that could make a tremendous positive difference in their lives. For my Band Aid Mini Facelift, though, I use gentle numbing in the area rather than general anesthesia, so you’ll be comfortable throughout your procedure while still remaining awake and fully in control.

Lower Cost

While plastic surgery isn’t a purchase you should make with price as your top deciding factor, it is helpful to know that my Band Aid Mini Facelift costs around half as much as a traditional facelift. In a traditional plastic surgery, you’ll have three major costs: the surgeon’s fees, the operating room fees for the hospital or surgical center, and the anesthesia fees. Because I perform my Band Aid Mini Facelift in-office with local numbing, you won’t need to pay operating room fees or anesthesia fees, which would normally make up about half the cost of a traditional facelift.

Milder Recovery Experience

A quick recovery is appealing to most of my patients because they want to be back at work and doing all the activities they love (with a younger look) as soon as possible after their surgery. With my Band Aid Mini Facelift, though, you don’t only recover more quickly. Your recovery is easier and more comfortable as well because the minimally invasive techniques cause less swelling and bruising than you would experience from a traditional facelift.

Exceptional Cosmetic Results

There is a common misconception that a minimally invasive procedure compromises your results, but that isn’t necessarily the case. The vast majority of people seeking a facelift will be able to get the results they want from my Band Aid Mini Facelift. As with any plastic surgery, though, an in-person consultation will allow you to find out if you’re a candidate.

Scheduling Your Band Aid Mini Facelift Consultation

If the benefits of my Band Aid Mini Facelift sound appealing to you, I would be honored to meet with you to tell you more and determine if you’re a candidate for this procedure. Schedule a mini facelift consultation at my plastic surgery office in Atlanta today. Follow me on Facebook for more cosmetic surgery insights and tips.

The Qualities of a Great Facelift

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A great facelift isn’t always obvious at a first glance. If performed by a skilled plastic surgeon, most people won’t be able to tell that a person underwent cosmetic surgery. Dr. John LeRoy has been specializing in facial plastic surgery for over 25 years, so he has developed his own signature and refined method for patients to attain natural-looking results. If you’re considering a facelift, it’s important to know what to look for before you schedule your procedure.

The Qualities of a Great FaceliftNatural results

Simply put, the best plastic surgery looks natural. A plastic surgeon is only doing a patient a service when the results improve their appearance with natural-looking results. Plastic surgery is often preferred to be kept confidential between the patient and surgeon, so most patients don’t want to broadcast the message that they had “cosmetic work” done. Many people want to retain their natural essence while simply looking like younger versions of themselves.

Dr. John LeRoy places a strong emphasis on performing discrete facelifts that still successfully reposition tissue and subtly tighten skin to take years off patients’ appearances. For even more subtle facial adjustments, he uses his own techniques call the Band Aid Facelift and Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift. These options allow for more choices over the intensity of results.

Minimal Scarring

Since small incisions are required during a facelift, it’s impossible to entirely avoid them. Each patient has a distinct facial structure, so the location of the subtle scarring will vary. However, Dr. John LeRoy can conceal scars in facial creases, around the ears or within the hairline.

Keeping your look

Your natural features are part of what make you unique. The goal of a facelift is to create small improvements that bring out the best parts of your appearance or restore youthfulness. It’s not realistic to expect to look like an entirely different person after a procedure. With the refined results that Dr. John LeRoy produces, patients don’t need to entirely alter the way that they look for fantastic cosmetic results.

Areas of Focus

The primary focus of a facelift is generally on the lower half of the face: around the cheeks, mouth and jawline. Wrinkles and sagging skin on this area can be significantly reduced for a more sculpted and smoother complexion. A patient can typically retain their facelift results for up to 10 years after their procedure. However, people who receive Band Aid Mini Facelifts or Band Aid Micro Mini Facelifts in between their traditional facelifts can maintain a refreshed look for longer.

If you have any questions about the different facelift options that we offer, call our office at 404.843.0840. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the most up-to-date information on plastic surgery and our monthly cosmetic specials.

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