Minimally Invasive Face Lifting and Lipofilling

Facial aging processes still represent 1 of the main reasons leading patients to seek surgical correction. Face lift has always been employed as the technique of choice to restore face skin tension and reduce skin folds and wrinkles. Plastic surgeons have gradually moved toward less and less invasive techniques through the years. The minimally invasive face lift is the result of this trend. Autologous fat graft has played an increasingly important role in the last decades, its use showing very satisfying results in volume restoring and tissues regeneration.1-5 Because facial aging is due both to tissues relaxation and to bone and facial fat absorption, the above mentioned techniques can be associated to improve the surgical results. A 6-year experience in this practice is reported and described.