Stay One Step Ahead of Aging Skin With an Early Intervention Facelift

The aging process starts gradually enough, but as the years go by, it tends to compound and snowball, and before you know it, you hardly recognize the person looking back at you in the mirror.

This is why, instead of waiting until 60, when age will leave a conspicuous mark on your appearance, more women and men stay one step ahead with early intervention facelifts.

At our practice, board-certified Dr. Jonathan Zelken often finds himself at the forefront of advancements and trends in plastic surgery. In this role, he sees that the move toward early intervention facelift is here to stay, thanks to its many benefits. Let’s take a look.

Getting ahead of the aging curve

The advantages of early intervention strategies are everywhere. For example, you brush your teeth daily to fight tooth decay and gum disease, which are the leading causes of tooth loss.

You exercise to stay healthy and prevent the accumulation of extra pounds. Not exercising is a quick path to cardiovascular disease and obesity, to name just two issues that stem from inactivity.

This same concept also holds a lot of water when it comes to the aging process in your face. In your late teens and 20s, your skin is at its healthiest and most youthful, thanks to an abundance of collagen. From there, however, collagen slowly decreases thanks to a natural decline in the production of this protein, exposure, and lifestyle habits.

The effects of this aren’t all that obvious at first, but they compound over time and, all too quickly, you’ve aged significantly. For women, this is especially true after menopause — their skin loses a whopping 30% of its collagen during the first five years of menopause.

So, just as people flock to Botox® and its counterparts to prevent the formation of dynamic wrinkles in their 20s and 30s, they are also turning to early intervention facelifts during these years to cheat the aging process.

Advantages of the early intervention facelift

The primary advantage of an early intervention facelift is that we don’t need to correct or reverse the aging process — instead, we step in before it takes a significant toll.

During an early intervention facelift, we can make minor corrections and set the stage for a better aging process. For example, if Dr. Zelken feels that certain areas might pose larger aging issues down the road, we can correct them now. Examples of this include:

• Removing potentially problematic buccal fat pads
• Separating prominent neck muscles to give your neck more definition as you age
• Tightening loose jowls
• Smoothing out marionette lines or nasolabial folds

Another advantage of the early intervention facelift is that we work with skin that bounces back more quickly. If you wait for a facelift, your skin will be less resilient, and correction will become increasingly difficult. We’ve also found that younger people recover considerably faster, and patient satisfaction rates are also higher.

For a more detailed explanation of the early intervention facelift in Dr. Zelken’s own words, please click here.

If you’d like to explore optimizing your appearance during your youthful years and staying one step ahead of aging, we invite you to call Jonathan Zelken, MD, in Newport Beach, California, at (949) 432-4730. You can also request an appointment using our online booking tool.