Asheville Brow Lift
Rejuvenate an aging brow and refresh your appearance
Did you know that the upper one-third of your face plays a key role in communicating your mood? A smooth, open appearance to your eyes and forehead tells others you are feeling refreshed, happy, and alert. On the other hand, a heavy, furrowed brow cues others to perceive you as tired, angry, or overly concerned, even if this couldn’t be further from the truth.
A brow lift repositions sagging brow tissues, smoothing deep furrows and restoring a more naturally refreshed appearance to the forehead.
How a brow lift can help refresh your appearance
If you (or others) feel like you look angry, sad, or tired all the time, the problem may be an aging brow. The aging process can cause the skin, muscle, and connective tissue on the forehead to droop, resulting in a brow that looks angry, frustrated, or tired.
Brow lift surgery can alleviate this problem. This procedure:
- Elevates drooping, heavy upper eyelids for a more naturally open look
- Smooths deep brow furrows and frown lines caused by sagging skin
- Restores a more youthful contour to the forehead and upper eyes
When performed by a skilled plastic surgeon, brow lift surgery can help you take several years off your appearance, look more approachable and happy, and even more importantly, feel more confident in your appearance.
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Why choose Dr. Conway?
A plastic surgeon’s experience, skill and aesthetic sensibility make a difference in your results. To Asheville plastic surgeon Dr. Donald Conway, any cosmetic enhancement should be undetectable by others as surgery. Naturally appealing results require techniques that achieve the desired improvements while preserving an individual’s natural facial contours.
Before he became a board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Conway trained and worked as a medical illustrator. This specialty required him to develop a thorough understanding of anatomy as well as a keen eye for proportion, detail, and symmetry. Combining artistic talent and surgical skill, Dr. Conway enhances the unique features already present in a patient’s facial contours to produce beautiful, natural-looking brow lift results.
- Key Benefits
- Glossary
- Rejuvenated Forehead Appearance: A brow lift smooths out wrinkles and lines on the forehead, giving the upper face a more youthful and relaxed appearance.
- Elevated Eyebrows: The procedure elevates sagging eyebrows, which can enhance the eyes’ overall appearance and contribute to a more alert and refreshed look.
- Reduced Furrow Lines: By repositioning the skin and muscles of the forehead, a brow lift can significantly diminish deep vertical creases between the eyebrows.
- Improved Eye Openness: The lifting of the brow can indirectly make the eyes appear more open, countering the look of tiredness or heaviness in the eyelids.
- Long-Lasting Results: Unlike non-surgical treatments, a brow lift offers long-lasting results, maintaining a youthful appearance for years.
- Anesthesia: Medication used during surgery to prevent pain; can be either local (numbing a specific area) or general (inducing sleep).
- Brow Lift (Forehead Lift): A surgical procedure aimed at raising the eyebrows, reducing forehead wrinkles, and improving overall appearance of the upper face.
- Coronal Brow Lift: A traditional technique where an incision is made across the top of the head, from ear to ear, hidden within the hair to lift the entire forehead and brow.
- Endoscopic Brow Lift: A less invasive procedure using an endoscope (a small camera and light) to lift the forehead and brow through several small incisions in the scalp.
- Frown Lines: Vertical lines that appear between the eyebrows, often targeted in a brow lift for a smoother appearance.
- Hairline Brow Lift: A technique where the incision is made at or just behind the hairline, allowing for the forehead skin to be lifted without altering the height of the hairline.
- Incisions: Surgical cuts made in the skin; in brow lift procedures, these are strategically placed in the hairline or forehead area to minimize visible scarring.
- Lateral Brow Lift: A procedure focusing on lifting the outer parts of the eyebrows, often to counteract sagging that can make the eyes look tired.
- Ptosis: A medical term for drooping, often used in reference to sagging of the eyebrows and eyelids, which can be corrected with a brow lift.
- Recovery Time: The period post-surgery for healing, where patients might experience swelling, bruising, and need to follow specific care instructions.
- Temporal Lift: A type of brow lift that specifically targets the outer edges of the brow, lifting the tail of the brow to rejuvenate the eye area.
- Trichophytic Brow Lift: A technique where the incision is made at the hairline, allowing the surgeon to lift the forehead while potentially reducing the visibility of the scar in the hairline.
Brow lift vs. facelift vs. eyelid surgery
Since the forehead and eye are parts of a person’s face, many people assume that a facelift will address aging in these areas too. However, brow lift, facelift, and eyelid lift surgery are three separate procedures. Each one is designed to address aging in specific areas of the face:
- Facelift: eliminates sagging skin and jowling in the mid to lower face (cheeks and neck).
- Eyelid lift: targets sagging skin, fat and muscles in the upper and lower eyelids only
- Brow lift: addresses sagging tissues above the upper eyelids to the top of the forehead
While many patients have a brow lift at the same time as an eyelid lift and/or a facelift, a brow lift is a unique procedure that can be performed on its own for patients whose concerns are limited to the forehead and can be addressed through brow lift surgery alone.
Patients with very mild skin laxity in the forehead who are mainly concerned about smoothing brow furrows or frown lines can often address their concerns non-surgically with Botox or Dysport. Both injectables relax the muscles that contribute to these wrinkles to smooth their appearance.
About brow lift surgery in Asheville
Dr. Conway may perform a brow lift with one of many techniques, ranging from minimal incision to removal of skin or scalp in a location designed to hide scars. Which brow lift procedure is best for you depends on your anatomy, your goals, and the nature and extent of sagging that needs to be addressed. At your consultation, Dr. Conway will take the time to explain your options thoroughly, so that you can make an informed decision about your surgery.
Recovery after brow lift surgery
Dr. Conway performs brow lift surgery as an outpatient procedure in our private, on-site surgery suite, so you will be able to go home several hours after your procedure to continue your recovery.
How you can expect to feel and when you can expect to return to your normal activities depends on the extent of your brow lift procedure. Light activity can usually be resumed within the first week, although it is important not to lift or strain for at least 2 weeks after surgery to avoid stressing your incision sites.
Many patients return to work several days after having an endoscopic brow lift as a single procedure; if you are having a brow lift as part of a facelift, you may need more time before you feel ready to go out in public.
Most patients find pain is minimal after a brow lift; discomfort and a “tight” feeling around the hairline are most pronounced during the first week after surgery. Bruising and swelling are common; these effects typically subside within 2 to 3 weeks following your procedure.
Will brow lift results last?
Dr. Conway explains it to his patients like this: having a brow lift is similar to rewinding the clock on the aging process. The brow tissues are restored to a more natural position that they held when you were a few years younger.
The aging process will continue, but your results will age naturally with you. They will not age faster or slower than the rest of your face. You can help keep your results looking their best by adopting a high quality skincare routine, not smoking, and wearing sunscreen daily.
Schedule a consultation to learn moreAre you ready to learn more about brow lift surgery in Asheville? Please contact our Asheville plastic surgery center today to get started by scheduling a personal consultation with Dr. Donald Conway. He and our friendly staff are here to help you get started and learn more about your options. In addition to brow lifts, Dr. Conway performs a variety of cosmetic and reconstructive procedures for men and women, including breast augmentation with implants, breast lift, breast reduction, male breast reduction, tummy tuck, liposuction, post weight loss body lift, cheek and chin implants, rhinoplasty, facelift, neck lift, and eyelid lift.
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