What is a suture lift?
Also known as the Hollywood Lift, Thread Lift or APTOS, Stitch Lift, Safe Lift, Skin Stitch and Feather Lift. Suture lift and its variants are procedures that can deliver a younger facial and neck appearance depending on your anatomy and the skill of your surgeon. That said, you need to understand that this is a surgical procedure and there is significant recovery time involved. The advantage of suture lift type procedures is that they are still considerably lower impact than the traditional facelift, allow faster recovery and are less costly. Where a traditional facelift uses surgical cutting in front of and behind the ears and hairline to achieve a lifting and tightening of facial features, the suture lift achieves a similar effect using fine threads under the skin. These threads anchor to the facial tissue and are tightened to reposition loose or droopy areas. The threads or sutures are usually anchored within the hairline or behind the ears where they cannot be seen. One of the bes
