Chemical peels and face lifts serve different purposes and have different effects.
With the face lift, hidden incisions are made, and the skin is lifted, the facial muscles are tightened, and extra skin is removed. The results will be tighter, less wrinkled neck and jowls.
This surgery should be done only by a board certified surgeon with special training in the procedure.
It’s done under local anesthesia as an outpatient.
Those patients who get the best results are around the age of fifty that is before wrinkles are excessively deep. Chemical peels help to remove the fine lines and wrinkles which we commonly get around the eyes and mouth as we age.
The doctor “paints” a chemical on the skin, causing the upper layers to peel.
What’s left is new, tighter skin, with many fewer wrinkles. Naturally, the results will be different for each patient, and the aging process continues along its merry way.
You can help yourself to prevent wrinkles by limiting your time in the sun, wearing sunblock and not smoking.

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