Non-operative face lifting: when and how?

Assessment of external signs of aging

2024-02-20
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Long gone are the days when facelift was an exclusively surgical term. Today's aesthetic medicine allows you to get the effect of skin tightening, modeling of the oval, visible rejuvenation of the face in a therapeutic way - with the help of minimally invasive, non-traumatic methods. But the main questions of aesthetic medicine are when and how? - remain relevant.

To answer these questions, let's recall the physiological changes associated with age, the stages of aging and evaluate the external signs of aging.

"Critical points" of biological age - 25-45-60 years - mark three main stages of aging.

What are the early signs of aging? First of all, the reaction to stress changes. If an eighteen-year-old face looks fresh after a sleepless night and traces of fatigue can be easily removed by simple washing, then in a few years it will not be enough. Vascular reactions, bruises under the eyes, dull complexion - the skin's reaction to stress becomes bright and quite persistent.

What affects the pace and nature of aging? Why do some people stay young for a long time, while others "pass the passport" at a young age? Today it is known that the speed and nature of aging are determined by many factors that can be influenced to varying degrees.

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