- Initial incisions
- Plication
- Skin excision
- Scar pitfalls
- Pre-jowl implant
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Face lift tutorial >> Skin excision >> page 2
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I've been working
behind the ear on this patient. In the diagram, the top half of the ear is pink, poking
out from underneath the skin flap. The blue line on the diagram shows you
where I have already removed some excess skin. Staples were used to close the
incision in that area. We use stainless steel surgical staples instead of stitches to
close wounds in the hair or adjacent to the hair, because the staples work great, and
trying to tie stitches in a location where the hair is getting in the way can be
difficult.
The skin tinted yellow in the diagram still needs to be excised along the blue dashed line to complete the closure of the wound behind the ear. |
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Here is what the staples look like up close. These staples are
being placed around the sideburn. Staples are placed with a surgical staple
gun, like the one pictured below, and they are removed with a clever little
device that backs the staples out the way they went in, so the skin isn't torn. I know, you're picturing a staple remover for an office paper
stapler, the kind that rips the paper apart whenever you try to use it.
The staple remover we have works much better.
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