Facelift

Dr Anh Nguyen performs SMAS facelift, deep plane facelift, and mini facelift procedures from her Perth practice, along with neck lift surgery for isolated neck laxity and Jowl correction. Facelift procedures are performed under general anaesthesia at accredited Perth hospital facilities, with incisions placed within natural skin creases around the ear and hairline. Procedures are frequently combined with blepharoplasty, brow lift, fat transfer, and neck liposuction to achieve comprehensive facial rejuvenation.

Facelift surgery at Dr Anh Specialist Plastic Surgeon in Rivervale, Perth, is performed using SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) techniques that address the underlying structural cause of facial ageing rather than simply redistributing surface skin. Dr Anh Nguyen offers SMAS facelift, deep plane facelift, and mini facelift procedures, with technique selection based on the patient's degree of facial laxity, the anatomical distribution of descent, recovery tolerance, and aesthetic goals. SMAS facelift addresses the fibromuscular layer deep to the subcutaneous fat that descends with age, causing the characteristic jowling, nasolabial deepening, and marionette line formation of the middle-aged and older face. Through incisions placed within the preauricular hairline, anterior helical crease, and postauricular sulcus, the SMAS is accessed, elevated, and repositioned superiorly and laterally — restoring the youthful upward facial vector — before the skin is draped without tension and excess is conservatively resected. The deep plane facelift releases the retaining ligaments of the face at a deeper anatomical level than standard SMAS techniques, allowing more complete repositioning of the cheek and jowl fat pads and achieving durable results particularly in patients with heavier facial tissue or those requiring secondary facelift. Mini facelift surgery uses a shorter incision profile and is suited to patients with early jowling and lower face laxity who are not yet appropriate for a full facelift. Neck lift surgery — addressing platysmal banding, submental fat, and neck skin laxity — is frequently combined with facelift or performed as a standalone procedure. Dr Anh commonly combines facelift with upper and lower blepharoplasty for periorbital rejuvenation, brow lift for forehead and brow elevation, and fat transfer to the temples and cheeks to restore the volume loss that accompanies skeletal and soft tissue descent. Perth patients and those travelling to Western Australia from regional areas for surgery benefit from Dr Anh's comprehensive aesthetic surgical planning, which draws on her FRACS (Plast) training and aesthetic fellowship at the Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery.