Facelift San Francisco

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have a healthy life-style and we want our appearance to reflect our healthy choices. However, sometimes no amount of exercise and healthy living can combat the signs of aging. The passing years, sun exposure and stress, can make their mark as wrinkles. Skin begins to lose its firmness and shows laxity, jowls set in and become increasingly prominent. While this process is normal, you don't have to accept it. San Francisco and Bay Area residents can combat aging by opting for facelift or non-surgical treatments (Botox and dermal fillers) with Dr. David Mabrie.

Do I Need a Facelift?

If your face is showing the signs of aging with visible muscle and fat loss combined with sagging skin, you may be a good candidate for facial rejuvenation with Dr. David Mabrie in the form of a facelift (rhytidectomy) or non-surgical treatments like Botox, Restylane, Radiesse, and Juvederm.

If your regular face creams and facials aren't providing you with the results you're looking for – you may want to explore other options. Whether you elect to have surgery or non-surgical treatments, Dr. Mabrie can assist you with facial rejuvenation.

Dr. David Mabrie can customize your facial rejuvenation plan based on your specific goals and needs.

What Are My Facelift Options?

• The Liquid Lift | 30s-40s
• Limited Lift | 40s-late 50s
• Full Facelift | 50s +

Liquid Lift | 30s-40s

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Before and After Liquid Lift

San Franciscans are on-the-go with careers, family, and social lives. While we eat healthy and exercise, sometimes, we don't look as great as we feel and need a little pick-me-up to revitalize our appearance. Dr. Mabrie can refresh your appearance with a Liquid-Lift with little to no downtime. In 1 to 2 office visits, you can turn back the clock without the downtime of surgery.

Am I Good Candidate?

A Liquid Lift is ideal for patients that are showing the early signs of aging without prominent sagging or laxity of the skin. Patients are typically in the early 30s to 40s with light to moderate wrinkles, volume loss, and visible laugh-lines or brow furrows, looking for rejuvenation without surgery.

How It's Done

After a thorough consultation and exam, Dr. Mabrie will develop a customized treatment plan designed to revitalize your specific signs of aging and meet your goals. Dr. Mabrie will treat the face with dermal-fillers such as Restylane, Radiesse, Elevess, and Juvederm. Based on your goals, Dr. Mabrie will choose a dermal-filler that best suits your needs. The dermal-filler is strategically placed in the face to restore volume and fullness and may be combined with a Botox treatment for best results.

What To Expect

It is normal to feel "firmness" at the treatment area for the first few days. Overtime, the area will soften, leaving you with a soft natural look. Temporary redness, swelling and bruising may appear after treatment and is normal.

How Long It Lasts

You will enjoy the benefits of the Liquid Lift for 4 to 6 months. Booster treatments will help you maintain your freshened appearance.

Liquid Lift Recovery

Limited Lift | 40s-50s

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Before and After the Limited Facelift This San Francisco woman in her early 40's was starting to notice a change in her face. She was concerned about the heaviness of her eyes and some sagging skin along her jaw line.

The Limited Facelift is known by a variety of names: Mini-Lift, Mid-Facelift, Young Woman's Lift, and Short-Incision Facelift to name a few. Its purpose is to revitalize the appearance of the face by tightening the skin and removing the appearance of sagging and wrinkles in the mid-face. A Limited Lift is appropriate for patients showing the early signs of aging and do not have excessive amounts of drooping skin around their jaw and neck line

Limited Lift

Mini-Lift/Young Woman's lift/ Short-Incision Lift incision is placed in front and behind ear with no incision into hair. The Limited Lift lifts sagging skin along the chin line. There is no scar between the ear and the hair, making the incision more "pony-tail friendly."

Dr. Mabrie frequently performs the Limited Lift for patients in their 40s-50s with some sagging of the cheeks and jowls, but do not have significant laxity in the neck area.

Am I Good Candidate?

A Limited Lift is ideal for patients in their 40s and 50s who are starting to see the early signs of aging with drooping and sagging in the lower face, including jowling that may be accompanied by mildly sagging skin.

How It's Done

Dr. David Mabrie performs the Limited Lift by making tiny incisions within the hairline and possibly down to the earlobe. Incision placement depends on the patient, but they are generally placed where they will not likely be seen. Through the incision, Dr. Mabrie repositions the underlying muscle and fat, as well as removes excess skin. The Limited Lift is usually performed in 1 to 4 hours under general anesthesia.

What To Expect

This procedure provides an overall youthful look. After surgery, swelling and bruising are normal. It will take 1 to 2 weeks to get back to feeling comfortable and for most swelling and bruising to subside. During the second week, you can likely get back to your normal social activities and work environment.

How Long It Lasts

The results of a Limited Lift can turn back time as much as 10 years, but overall the face will continue to age naturally.

Preparing for Surgery

To get ready for your Limited Lift with Dr. Mabrie, enlist the help of a friend or family member to pick you up after surgery and stay with you for the first night. This will help you contend with any lingering woozy feeling from anesthesia. Dr. Mabrie's staff can help you with these arrangements, if you need assistance.

Limited Lift Recovery

Full Facelift | 50s +

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After

Before and After the Full Facelift San Francisco woman in her mid 40's with moderate to severe signs of aging on the face including sun damage and loose skin.

You may want to consider a Full Facelift with Dr. Mabrie if you have muscle, skin, and fat that is visibly affected by gravity and aging. Hollows may appear under the eyes with a loss of contour in the cheeks and with sagging and drooping in the jowl area. A Full Facelift with Dr. Mabrie will restore your youthful look, and provide you with natural results.

Full Facelift

Full Facelift incision placed in front of and behind ear extending into hair behind ear. The Full Facelift lifts sagging skin along chin line and neck.

Am I Good Candidate?

A Full Facelift is typically recommended for patients in their 50s and up to address sagging skin, deep creases, and volume loss contributing to an aged appearance.

How It's Done

Dr. Mabrie performs Full Facelift surgery under general anesthesia. Small incisions are made at the temple and extends behind the natural curve of the ear (hidden in the hair behind the ear or following the hairline) down the nape of the neck. The length of the incision depends on the extent of the correction needed. Dr. Mabrie will adjust and reposition the underlying muscle and fat, before re-draping the skin and removing any excess.

What To Expect

The initial recovery from a Full Facelift is generally 1 to 2 weeks. Swelling, bruising, and tightness are normal. This will improve greatly during the first week, but may take several weeks for you to feel "normal". Most patients return to social activities in the second week.

How Long It Lasts

A Full Facelift offers a permanent advantage in that you'll always look seven to 10 years younger than if you hadn't had surgery. Results depend on your general health, genetics, skin elasticity, quality of skin and the environment. Sun exposure, smoking and significant weight gain and loss can also affect your Facelift results.

Facelift Recovery

Why Choose Dr. Mabrie for My Facelift?

Excellent Training, Double-Board Certification, Specialization in the Face and Neck

Dr. Mabrie specializes in facial cosmetic surgery for his San Francisco area patients. Completing medical school at the University of California at San Francisco with honors, his residency at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and a fellowship in Facial Plastic Surgery at Stanford University, Dr. Mabrie has focused all his time and talents on plastic surgery for the face, head and neck. He has a thorough understanding of the anatomy of this complex area and has helped thousands of people feel much better about their appearance through facial cosmetic surgery and anti-aging treatments.

Dr. Mabrie follows in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Herman J. Mabrie III, a well-respected head and neck surgeon in Houston, Texas. After a distinguishing himself during his years of medical school and residency at Johns Hopkins, UCSF and Stanford, Dr. Mabrie received double-board certification from the American Board of Facial Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology, (ear, nose, and throat).

Click to read Dr. Mabrie's curriculum vitae.

What Are the Next Steps?

Check out some real patient results on our Before and After Photos page. Then continue your research by visiting our San Francisco Facelift, Facelift Options and our Facelift FAQ pages. If you have more questions, please call Susan Cole, our patient coordinator, at 415-445-9513.

If you're interested in financing your surgery, click to visit our Fees and Financing page.

San Francisco cosmetic surgeon Dr. David Mabrie is one of the leading providers of facelift surgery in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the East Bay (Pinole and Oakland). Call or e-mail us today at 415-445-9513.