Facelift & Mini Facelift

The practice offers both full facelift surgery and the proprietary Quiet Lift mini-facelift, a technique that uses small incisions near the ears to access and tighten the underlying facial tissue, remove excess skin, and frequently combine the correction with filler placement for comprehensive rejuvenation. The Quiet Lift is designed for three to five days of recovery time, with swelling largely resolved within one week and full recovery in two to three weeks. Neck lift surgery is also available as a standalone or combined procedure. All facial surgery is performed by Dr. Steven Dayan or Dr. Benjamin P. Caughlin.

Facelift surgery at this Chicago Old Town practice encompasses both the Quiet Lift mini-facelift — the practice's signature shorter-recovery procedure — and full facelift surgery for patients with more extensive lower face and neck laxity. The Quiet Lift approach uses small incisions placed at and around the ears, through which the deeper facial tissue layers are accessed, repositioned, and secured, with redundant skin trimmed conservatively to avoid the telltale tight or pulled appearance that can result from skin-only techniques. The procedure is frequently combined with dermal filler placement in the same session to simultaneously address volume loss in the cheeks, perioral area, and tear troughs — recognising that facial ageing involves both tissue descent and volume deflation, and that correction of one without the other produces an incomplete result. Recovery from the Quiet Lift is designed to fit within a working professional's schedule: most patients are presentable for social activity within five to seven days and fully recovered within two to three weeks. For patients with more significant jowling, platysmal banding in the neck, or submental fullness that extends beyond what the mini approach can address, a full facelift with or without a concurrent neck lift provides a more comprehensive correction. Dr. Benjamin P. Caughlin, the practice's second board-certified facial plastic surgeon, also performs thread lifting using new-generation PDO barbed suture technology for patients who are not yet candidates for surgical correction or who prefer a non-incisional option with minimal downtime; he notes in published commentary that thread lift results are best described as subtle, providing perhaps one millimetre of brow lift or a slight reduction in nasolabial fold depth, and are best suited to patients in their mid-thirties seeking early intervention rather than significant correction. Neck lift surgery, whether standalone or combined with facelift, addresses platysmal laxity, submental fullness, and loss of the cervicomental angle through incisions placed beneath the chin and around the ear.