The forehead lift.

The technique proposed is one that deals with the problems of the aging appearance of the upper third of the face as a separate surgical entity. Malar or cervical rhytidectomies are performed through a separate incision, the upper limit of which is in the region of the supra-auricular groove. The primary advantages of the procedure are that it yields a universal lift for ptosis and redundancy throughout the upper third of the face; that it allows for ready accessibility to offending muscles, namely, procerus, corrugator, frontalis, and fibrotic galea; that the incision is behind the hairline and therefore relatively inconspicuous; and that when it is combined with meloplasty, separate compartments are retained so as to alleviate at least some of the problems developing from postoperative facial hematomas. The results obtained with this procedure are shown in Figures 8 through 12.