You do not look changed … only fresher and many years younger.

The deep plane facelift differs fundamentally from older lifting methods: instead of tightening the skin, we release the deep tissue layers — the SMAS, the cheek fat pads, the retaining ligaments — and move them back to where they once sat. The skin above is adapted into its new position without tension.

The decisive advantage: nothing is pulled. No mask-like look, no visible vectors, no altered expression. Instead a face that you and those around you perceive as “fresher, well rested” — without anyone being able to point to the procedure.

Newspapers and magazines frequently advertise “modern” methods promising little surgical effort, rapid healing and short downtime. Tempting as that sounds — an effective “minimally invasive” facelift does not exist.

The reason lies in the anatomy: for a natural and longer-lasting result the connective tissue deep beneath the skin must be tightened, and that requires a certain amount of surgery. Technically simple tightening of the skin alone, by contrast, makes the face look unnatural and “lifted” — and the supposed rejuvenation lasts only briefly. A “lunchtime lift” carried out in a lunch break may last only until dinner.

That does not mean every lift has to be equally extensive. Which regions of face and neck are lifted, and to what degree, depends on the surgeon's analysis and on your wishes — the technique is adapted to your individual situation, not the other way round.