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Facelift Toronto

As a gold-standard rejuvenation procedure, a facelift can rewind the clock on aging, restoring confidence, self-esteem, and social ease. The surgery addresses cosmetic concerns in the lower third of the face, including sagging cheeks, jowls, nasolabial folds, and loss of definition in the jawline.

Dr. Ashlin Alexander – A Trusted Aesthetic Authority Devoted to Excellence

Dr. Ashlin Alexander is a board-certified, fellowship-trained Facial Cosmetic Surgeon who specializes in procedures for the face, neck, and hair. This exclusive focus is coupled with a refined sense of artistry and precision, as well as a lifelong dedication to safety and natural-looking outcomes.

Dr. Alexander treats every patient like a family member, ensuring their results are tailored to their wishes and comfort levels. Thanks to his personalized approach and insistence on integrity and transparency, Dr. Alexander is known as among the best facelift surgeons in and beyond Toronto, Canada. If you would like to learn more about his innovative approach to facial surgery, contact us today to schedule a private consultation.

What Is a Facelift?

With the aging process, the body’s natural reserves of vital compounds like collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid are exhausted, leaving the skin prone to sagging, wrinkles, and volume loss. In addition, gravity plays a role in producing sunken contours in the cheeks, jawline, and upper neck. Dr. Alexander performs facelift surgery to restore a refreshed, energized appearance and a heightened sense of self-confidence. Today’s facelift techniques have evolved to produce highly natural-looking changes that preserve facial spontaneity and individuality while reducing age-related cosmetic flaws.

What Are the Benefits of a Facelift in Toronto?


AWhen performed with meticulous attention to detail by Dr. Alexander in Toronto, facelift surgery comes with a wide range of impressive benefits, including the following:

  • Trims excess drooping skin
  • Eradicates jowls
  • Creates a sharper, more defined jawline
  • Smooths nasolabial folds and wrinkles
  • Improves balance in the profile
  • Enhances harmony among the features
  • Boosts self-confidence
  • Long-lasting changes
  • Elegant, nuanced results

Who Is a Good Candidate for a Facelift?

A facelift is suitable for patients struggling with sagging skin and other signs of aging that keep them from looking and feeling their best. The procedure is a good match for many older patients who have had success with non-surgical treatments and at-home anti-aging skincare products in the past but now find that they desire a more dramatic transformation with longer-lasting results. Those who have experienced massive weight loss may also find relief from their aesthetic concerns by undergoing a facelift.

To qualify for plastic surgery, you need to be a non-smoker, in good health, at a stable weight, and realistic in your expectations. To best determine your candidacy, you will meet with Dr. Alexander in Toronto for a private consultation, during which he will assess your skin thickness and quality, review your medical history and current medication schedule, and listen carefully to your goals for improvement. Dr. Alexander will then curate a customized treatment plan to help you achieve the revitalized, refreshed appearance you envision for yourself.

Your Facelift Procedure

While most patients in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are well-suited to a traditional facelift approach, Dr. Alexander performs liquid facelifts and mini-facelifts for younger patients who are not quite ready for more in-depth aesthetic changes.

With a standard facelift, you will sleep peacefully under general anesthesia while the doctor creates an incision stretching inconspicuously from within the fine folds of the ears to the hairline. He will then tighten the underlying SMAS facial layer, which leads to a highly natural transformation. The doctor will remove excess skin, tissue, and fat, sculpting a facial appearance that is balanced, symmetrical, and pleasing to the eye.

For more advanced cases of facial aging, Dr. Alexander employs a three-pronged approach known as the Trinity Facelift. This involves resuspending the deeper soft tissue layers that have succumbed to gravity, resurfacing the complexion to eradicate superficial damage, and finally combating facial volume loss through innovative fat grafting.

Recovery After Facelift Surgery

Dr. Alexander will provide a personalized aftercare plan for you, along with prescriptions for pain medications and antibiotics. Your face will be bandaged at first to help minimize swelling. However, mild swelling, bruising, redness, and soreness may be at their worst during your first week of recovery. After that, these side effects will gradually lessen in the coming weeks. You can take gentle walks right away to boost your circulation and stay in good spirits, but take care to avoid strenuous exercise for 4-6 weeks. Most patients find they can return to work in a week or two, provided that their job is sedentary. If any questions or concerns arise during your healing process, don’t hesitate to reach out to Dr. Alexander and his compassionate team in Toronto.

Get Started Today With Your Private Facelift Consultation in Toronto, ON

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Alexander’s precision-oriented approach to facelift surgery, contact us today to schedule a private and informative consultation. By answering all your questions and concerns in depth, we aim to empower you with the information you need to move forward confidently along the path to a more youthful, attractive appearance and improved peace of mind.

Facelift FAQs

Is a Facelift Painful?

Facelift surgery is performed under general anesthesia, so you will be resting peacefully throughout your procedure and will not feel any pain or discomfort. After surgery, Dr. Alexander will make sure you have access to prescription painkillers, which can help you manage postoperative soreness in the early days of your recovery. Most patients are able to switch to over-the-counter painkillers within a few days after their facelift surgery.

How Long Will My Results Last?

Facelift results can last well over a decade, provided that you follow a healthy lifestyle and avoid the sun’s harmful UV rays. While the natural aging process will continue, you will mature more gracefully and look younger than your chronological age. In the future, you can opt for a revision procedure if necessary.

Will a Facelift Make Me Look Unnatural?

Many facelift patients in Toronto are concerned about looking “windswept” or “pulled.” These negative associations with facelift surgery mostly stem from the fact that techniques in the past focused on merely pulling the skin tight rather than artfully elevating and repositioning the deeper facial layers, as is common today. Dr. Alexander is highly attuned to each patient’s goals and aesthetic sensibilities and he goes above and beyond to deliver natural-looking changes that enhance beauty, balance, and symmetry.

Can a Facelift Be Combined With Other Procedures?

Yes, definitely. Dr. Alexander frequently combines facelift surgery with fat grafting to enhance youthful volume. Laser skin resurfacing can also be added to eradicate skin damage and imperfections. The doctor can also pair your facelift with a neck lift, buccal fat reduction, blepharoplasty, chin surgery, otoplasty, or lip augmentation.

What Is the Difference Between a Facelift and a Neck Lift?

Where a facelift focuses on elevating sunken cheek contours, trimming jowls, and lending definition to the jawline, a neck lift can combat imperfections such as vertical neck bands, drooping, crepe-like skin in the neck, and submental fullness. Together, these two procedures can provide patients with exponential improvements that powerfully rewind the clock on aging. Each surgery can also be performed on its own.

What Are the Risks Involved With a Facelift?

Complications with facelift surgery are rare when your procedure is performed by a board-certified facial plastic surgeon like Dr. Alexander in Toronto. However, like most cosmetic treatments, a facelift comes with certain risks, including swelling, bruising, redness, soreness, infection, bleeding, hematomas, nerve damage, and others. Dr. Alexander will go over these risks in more detail during your private consultation.

How Do I Choose the Best Surgeon for My Toronto Facelift?

To select the best surgeon, it is critical to review your provider’s training background, experience, testimonials, results, and technical prowess. Equally important is choosing a surgeon with whom you feel comfortable communicating. Dr. Alexander in Toronto invites you to schedule a private consultation with him so you can determine if working together will be a good fit. He is a board-certified aesthetic authority who focuses exclusively on procedures for the face and neck, having undergone elite, in-depth fellowship training to prepare him for excelling in this delicate, complex field. Call today to get started.

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