temporal browlift

[super]

my friend is looking for a procedure which will lift the outer part of her brow to deal with hooded skin over the outer corner of the eye and arch the outer brow.she has a high forehead and does not want or need the rest of her brow elevated.is there a procedure to do this,if so,what is it called and is it easier to recover from than the usual endoscopic browlift?

[sunny]

I think it's also called a lateral or caudal browlift which just pulls up the outer tail.

I saw Peter Arnstein do a lift with an incision just above the eyebrow but I would think that would leave a scar

I would think any lift that doesn't remove skin via an incision is bound to affect the hairline but maybe just the sideburns.

There's a tri something coronal browlift which cuts in a jagged line around the hairline for people with high foreheads.

[sunny]

My PS did a "lateral" lift on me, verses the centtral brow lift. He felt that elevating the entire brow could give my brow a "masculine" look leaving me with less of an arch to brow. The outer edge lift (lateral) of the brow, has opened my eyes and avoided the "mean" look that other types of brow lifts in a woman can cause--much as botox not administered properly can do.

My hairline was affected very little. I have no visible scars. Most brow lifts drop some within the first few months. I don't think that the words "drop" and "fall" are interchangeable in the context of a brow lift. Many docs say you can expect a 10-20 percent drop of the brow following a brow lift, over the first 12 months or so. Many docs compensate for the expected "drop", some may over compensate-in my opinion--lifting the brow higher than necessary expecting it to drop some.

While I am not as thrilled with all aspects of my PS, I do feel that my browlift was done perfectly. I was not lifted too much, nor too little. So far, I have experienced less than a 10% drop, probably closer to 5%.

[super]

Might be opting for this myself. The lateral brow lift also called temporal lift gives a lift to the lateral end of the brow only, using an endoscope through a temporal approach with subperiosteal undermining of the lateral orbital wall. That's the jargon, basically at the temple point of hairline an incision is made and the lateral part of the brow raised only, it smooths the eye area somewhat if descent of the brow causes saggy skin but does not raise the whole brow nor do anything for the full forehead. I'm sure most reputable surgeons who perform many types of forehead/brow lift will be able to offer this procedure if you're is a suitable candidate and decide to go ahead after learning more about it. This is often offered as a procedure by use of contour threads but I was told to avoid them like the plague, not long lasting, risk of infection etc.

[prettyinred]

Originally Posted by super

my friend is looking for a procedure which will lift the outer part of her brow to deal with hooded skin over the outer corner of the eye and arch the outer brow.she has a high forehead and does not want or need the rest of her brow elevated.is there a procedure to do this,if so,what is it called and is it easier to recover from than the usual endoscopic browlift?

If she consults a plastic surgeon he can not only tell her what procedures are available for her problem, but he can also give her a price estimate. Tell her to go talk to a surgeon.