Brow / Forehead Lift

What is a brow lift?

The drooping or lowering of the eyebrows is frequently one of the earliest signs of aging. This is a result of skin laxity and fat loss around the brow, forehead and temple areas. Additionally, horizontal wrinkles and vertical frown lines between the brows can make you look angry and gloomy.

The brow or forehead lift is the procedure that raises the eyebrows to give you a rejuvenated look and help you get rid of the angry one. It aims to elevate a brow lying in a low position, or to deal with cases that cannot be dealt with by Upper Blepharoplasty alone.

Here, at Surgical Art we recommend our patients the endoscopic technique as well as open techniques such as pretrichial incisions, as two of the most popular and less invasive techniques in cosmetic surgery.

These approaches to eyebrow lifting have the additional benefit of also "lifting" the forehead and the upper lateral facial tissues. It is for this reason that these techniques are performed for both cosmetic and functional reasons.

Endoscopic brow lift

The endoscopic approach accomplishes the eyebrow and forehead lifting through a series of five or six very small incisions just posterior to the hairline.

Your surgeon will pass an endoscope/camera through the incisions to visualize and aid in the dissection. Instead of trimming a flap of tissue, the permanence of the lift is accomplished by various fixation techniques whereby the forehead flap is lifted superiorly and secured to the skull, usually with screws.

The pretrichial eyebrow and forehead lift involves placing an incision across the entire length of the forehead just in front of the hairline. Typically, the incision is carried laterally, either as a continuation in front of the hairline or as a continuation of the previous incision that extends posterior to the hairline and then inferiorly to the top of the ear. The scalp incision is full-thickness, and is typically carried down to or through the periostium.

Your surgeon will then undermine the forehead and eyebrow tissues and lifts them away. He will release deep attachments and advances the entire flap superiorly, then trims the excess tissue. This is followed by a layered closure of the wound.

The operation requires only a subcutaneous dissection that preserves the hair follicles; the hair grows through the incisions after just a few weeks.

Dr. Eleftheriou will utilize these techniques depending on the case. Treatments are customized to fit patients? needs.