Dr. Lindsey Facelift philosophy in Washington DC
Learn how different approaches to facelifts can lead to very different results. Dr. Lindsey likes a conservative natural result without looking pulled and windswept. YET, enough change must be done for the patient to see what was done.
i I’m dr. Lindsay let me tell you a bit
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about my facelift philosophy since 1995
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I’ve done over 4,000 facelifts
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this is evolved now to redo most of
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these in the office with light sedation
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and so most of our facelifts are what’s
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called a short scar rhytidectomy
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probably half of the patients to get
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this done get their upper eyelids or the
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lower eyelids done at the same time and
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probably a third fourth of the patients
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come back a few weeks later and get
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facial resurfacing we’ve done lots of
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these over the years and we can do them
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very safely and in general I think that
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facelift is best done to look natural
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and we’re doing it too rather than
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transform them I just don’t care for
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that windswept cool appearance that that
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some people get after an aggressive
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facelift and by and large most of our
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patients return to almost any activity
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at a week with just a little bit of
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makeup on our procedure takes a
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relatively short period of time in the
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office we’re a fairly tight compressive
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head wrap the first night we see you the
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next day we do not use drains or any
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kind of contraptions that require
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additional help the first night and the
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next day we clean you up make sure they
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looks good and then put a lighter
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compressive dressing out what you wear
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for a week everybody complains about
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that at head rep so I would encourage
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you to look at some of our instructional
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videos on YouTube where I interview
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patient stupendous done and then we can
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get your stitches out maybe even day six
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on how things are going and then I we
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see it a month and by and large these
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patients show back up somewhere between
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five and nine years later for some type
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of touch-up
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we’ve got certainly people that are very
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finicky that just can’t stay in any
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aging and are a lot shorter in bed and
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I’ve got some people that feel like this
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holds holds up even longer than nine or
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ten years but I’d say on average this
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lasts about seven years we’ve done lots
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of these without any major complications
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and particularly depended no facial
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nerve injuries with this type of
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procedure
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and we’ve got a before-and-after picture
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book in the office with hundreds of our
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patients of all sizes and shapes and
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ages free to look at when you come in
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for your consultation so look at our
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instructional videos and please come in
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fir to plug it and you’ll answer all
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your questions and see if this is a
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procedure for you thank you
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