The Key to Dr. Suzman’s Excellence: PhaseLifting not an old style facelift

Phase Lifting, Not Facelfting

The Real Key to Dr. Suzman’s Cosmetic Surgery Excellence 

Alright, let's break down this "PhaseLifting" thing into some easy-to-digest points:

• Forget Just Pulling and Filling: Traditional facelifts focus too much on just stretching and injecting stuff. PhaseLifting is different.
• Aging is a Process: You can't undo decades of aging in one shot. It's a journey, not a quick fix.
• It's All About Phases: There are basically three main stages (plus maintenance) to this whole PhaseLifting deal.
• Phase 1: Skin Prep is Key: First up, they get your skin ready. Think fancy creams and stuff to boost collagen and fight stress on your skin. Retin-A and RescueMD are mentioned.
• Phase 2: Small Facelift, Big Impact: Next, a small in-office procedure. It's a limited neck and jawline lift with some energy tightening. You'll be swollen for a few days to a week, but then back to normal faster..
• Phase 3: Your Own Fat is Awesome: We use your own fat (from liposuction!) to add volume. It's way more natural than fillers packed with growth factors and stem cells,  and helps with wrinkles too. Plus, you get some liposuction out of it!
• Phase 4: Keep It Up!: It's not over after the procedures. You gotta keep up with skincare, treatments like peels and lasers, and a healthy lifestyle ("biohacking" they call it). Sleep, food, exercise, all that good stuff.
• No Overdoing It: Too much of any one treatment (fillers, lasers, etc.) can make things look weird and unnatural. PhaseLifting tries to avoid that.
• It's a Gradual Thing: Our team wants to set expectations that this is a series of steps, not a miracle cure in one day.

With so many treatment options for facial aging, patients and physicians alike have to sort between what will be most effective and when and for whom.  So many treatments are offered in isolation by a variety of aesthetic practitioners, with each having marginal overall effectiveness.  Rarely is a comprehensive treatment protocol managed by a single practitioner with the goal of optimizing an outstanding facial rejuvenation. It is not uncommon for patients to have tried cosmetic creams from one source,a retinoid prescription from another and treatments such as IPL or frameless lasers or peels with another practice.  By the time this patient presents to the plastic surgeon for treatment, they have felt they have exhausted other options, and are looking for something more lasting and effective.

One limitation of our standard surgical approaches to face lifting surgery is that treatments have relied too much on simply on physics-  pulling, tightening and filling.   A second limitation is that too much may be expected for what we can achieve to reverse decades of aging in a single morning’s procedure.  To fully improve and reverse signs of aging should be seen as a process, not a procedure.  Implementing treatments that leverage enhancements in skin and tissue  aging biology and chemistry, along with the physics of standard plastic surgery techniques is the hallmark of the PhaseLifting approach. 

In a series of three phases, plastic surgeons can map out an effective treatment protocol,  integrating the most current and optimal treatment methods.  

PHASE 1: The skin surface is addressed first with treatments that optimize the  biochemical and cellular systems at work in the aging process, mainly oxidative stress and collagen production.  Effective skin care and preparation starts in most cases with a Retin-A custom compound including hydroquinone, niacinamide and Zinc.  To reduce irritation, stimulate collagen and reduce oxidase stress we add RescueMD gel serum, our award winning skin care product with Lapachol, peptides, lipids, and antioxidants.

PHASE 2:  Our first  procedure intervention focuses on the dermis and deeper layers with an office based surgery using a limited neck lift and jaw ling lift with a deep plane elevation, energy tightening with Renuvion radiofrequency helium plasma, and a TCA peel.  This more limited face and neck approach starts the tightening process while  improving collagen production to the ski.  The procedure takes about 2 hours, and patients are a bit swollen for 4-5 days before resuming normal activities.

PHASE 3: Using our advanced fat grafting and nanofat injection, using your own body fat, we are able to add volume much more naturally and effectively than hyaluronic acid fillers like Juvederm and Restylane. Not only is this treatment long lasting and very natural appearing, it is incredibly effective at lifting and adding volume to the cheeks and lips areas while also helping fine wrinkles and creases. As a bonus, the fat is harvested from the tummy,  hip or thigh, so it includes liposuction to those areas.  This procedure is also done in the office with light oral sedation - no general anesthesia.  

PHASE 4: Ongoing maintenance is essential with top tier skin care and annual skin stimulation treatments such as chemical peels, fraxel, lasers and botox as needed  Other essential parts of optimization include lifestyle “biohacking”.  Whatever we can do to support healthy sleep, nutrition, hydration, physical activity , mindfulness, and stress reduction work in concert with  surgical intervention adds to overall health, beauty, wellness and slows the cellular aging process. 

With our comprehensive PhaseLifting comprehensive treatment of aging from the biochemical to the physical level, we have increased the chances of an effective result that does not over rely on any one treatment.  Overtreatment with filling, pulling, lasers, or any modality is a leading source of  poor outcomes, obvious and unnatural  results and patient dissatisfaction.