Guides, comparisons and honest answers about treatment in Istanbul — written by the clinicians who do the work.
Both techniques act on the same layer; they differ in whether it is tightened or released and repositioned. The release is what moves the midface and the jawline together.
Learn moreFacelift incisions run around the ear and into the hair. Where the surgeon places them decides whether your sideburn survives and how the hairline looks tied up.
Learn moreA deep-plane facelift typically holds for ten to fifteen years, but it does not stop ageing. What it resets is the position of tissue, and four habits decide how long that lasts.
Learn moreEnough to open the eye, never so much that it cannot close. Twenty millimetres of skin between brow and lash line is the floor most surgeons work to.
Learn moreRemoving lower eyelid fat empties the eye socket and can look older at fifty than the bags did. Moving the same fat down into the hollow fixes both problems at once.
Learn moreTemporary dryness is common for two to six weeks and usually mild. Lasting dry eye is uncommon, and the patients at real risk can be identified before surgery.
Learn moreUltrasound breaks the fat apart before it is suctioned, which matters in fibrous areas and matters far less in soft ones.
Learn moreFive litres of aspirate is the practical ceiling for one safe session — and the limit is set by fluid balance, not by fat.
Learn moreThe garment does more for your final contour than any massage — and aggressive massage in the first week does harm, not good.
Learn moreThe cells removed do not regrow in any meaningful number — but the ones left elsewhere still enlarge if you gain weight.
Learn moreGrafted fat lives by diffusion for its first weeks, so packing in more volume is the fastest way to lose it.
Learn moreDirect pressure closes the new vessels feeding the graft, which is why the sitting rules are surgery, not superstition.
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