One of the newest innovations in plastic and cosmetic surgery today is the 4D VIP facelift, or the four dimensional vectors in plane facelift. It is not uncommon to hear horror stories about facelift procedures gone wrong; or even procedures that were done correctly but gave patients horrible results. With the old technique, a person who has gone under the knife to address the aging issue usually gets an unnatural look, or a look that makes it obvious that he or she has received a lifting treatment. However, with this new facelift technique, you will never have to worry about a thing.  And what`s more is that results are more noticeable. To know more about this very promising cosmetic treatment, here are the three main principles that the VIP facelift banks on when applying the technique.

The unnatural look that most patients complain about after a traditional facelift is due to the fact that it only pulls the sagging skin up, without considering that, through time, the skin is not only pulled downward by gravity, but also forward because the skin’s collagen matrix tends to slack. What this 4D VIP facelift does is it pulls the skin up and back towards the face. Hence, this technique will not result in an “operated” look.

Another mistake that traditional facelifts do is the stretching of the skin and cutting off of the excess. The old technique failed to consider that it is useless to stretch the skin if it is the collagen matrix itself that has slackened, and the natural aging of the facial bones made the face shrink causing the skin to sag further. What this new facelift procedure does instead is to utilize laser to tighten the skin’s collagen matrix, and add volume to the facial bones by augmenting them with biocompatible implants or grafting techniques.

What many of the old facelift techniques failed to do is to consider the face as a whole, and instead used procedures that focus on just certain parts of the face. The VIP facelift is different. Before applying the procedure, it considers the face as a whole and keeps in mind the symmetry of the patient’s face, ensuring that the end result of the procedure will make the outcome look more natural.