Facelift

Dr Chad Robbins performs full facelift, mini-facelift, and neck lift procedures from his Nashville practice, addressing jowling, mid-face descent, neck laxity, and platysmal banding. Incisions are placed within natural hairline and ear creases to minimise visible scarring. SMAS repositioning restores youthful facial contour. Adjunct procedures including brow lift, eyelid surgery, fat transfer, and chin augmentation can be combined in the same operative session to maximise aesthetic improvement and reduce total recovery time.

Facelift surgery at Robbins Plastic Surgery draws on Dr Robbins' Mayo Clinic fellowship training and dual board certification in plastic and general surgery, giving him a rigorous technical foundation across facial anatomy and soft tissue management. The practice offers a full range of facial rejuvenation surgical options, with technique selection guided by the patient's degree of facial ageing, skin quality, anatomical characteristics, and recovery tolerance. The full traditional facelift addresses gravitational descent of the lower face, jowl, and neck through an incision that follows the natural hairline contour above the ear, transitions within the anterior helical crease, continues around the earlobe, and extends into the postauricular hairline. Through this access, the underlying SMAS — the fibromuscular layer deep to the subcutaneous fat — is elevated, repositioned, and secured, restoring the youthful upward facial vector. Excess skin is conservatively redraped and trimmed with no tension placed at the skin closure, avoiding the unnatural pulled appearance associated with older techniques. For patients with early to moderate lower face and upper neck laxity, a mini-facelift using a shorter incision around the ear provides effective correction with a faster recovery. Isolated neck laxity with platysmal banding is addressed by platysmaplasty — repositioning and tightening the platysmal muscle through a submental incision — combined with submental liposuction where excess fat is present. Dr Robbins frequently combines facelift surgery with complementary facial procedures to achieve comprehensive rejuvenation in a single anaesthetic event: upper and lower blepharoplasty for periorbital rejuvenation, endoscopic brow lift for forehead and brow elevation, rhinoplasty, fat transfer to the temples and cheeks to restore lost facial volume, and chin augmentation to define the jawline. Hospital privileges at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital and Centennial Medical Center ensure access to accredited surgical facilities. Nashville and surrounding Tennessee patients are evaluated with a thorough facial analysis at consultation, and financing options are available to assist with procedure planning.