What is Dr. Gupta’s EasyLift?
Dr. Gupta’s EasyLift is a smarter approach to the traditional facelift. It should give the same longer lasting results as a traditional facelift, but with less trauma and recovery time. Unlike a traditional facelift, the procedure is performed strictly under local anesthesia in the office. Most patients fall asleep during the procedure. The advantages of using local anesthesia versus general anesthesia are: 1) Much faster recovery time; 2) Less trauma during surgery with far less bleeding; 3) Minimal to no bruising; 4) Minimal swelling; 5) None of the risks associated with general anesthesia.*
The recovery time is very minimal and patients are often back to work in public within 3-4 days. We do ask you to refrain from strenuous activities and bending over for two to three weeks following the procedure. There are no bandages, no drains and no sutures that need to be removed. The procedure involves making a thin incision over the ear, strategically well hidden, and extending behind the ear, but not into the scalp. The underlying SMAS and Platysma muscle (muscular layers) are tightened to give longlasting results for facial and neck tightening. The eyebrows and lower eyelids are also greatly improved. The excess skin is trimmed off to reveal your original youthful features. The lift is carefully designed to provide vertical raising versus lateral pulling. This allows the patient to look entirely normal without having that pulled appearance.*
Pre-Op Considerations: Patients need to make sure they are not smoking or using nicotine for at least three weeks prior to the procedure as well as three weeks after the procedure. We will also give you a list of blood thinning medications and foods to avoid two weeks prior to treatment. You will need someone to bring you and drive you home. We like to see our patients one or two days after the procedure for a quick check up and then at regular intervals afterwards up to a year.
Other procedures may also be combined with the EasyLift, including: 1) Upper eyelid surgery to remove excess skin, muscle and fat pockets from the upper eyelids; 2) Lower eyelid surgery to remove the fat pockets from under the eyes; 3) Brown lift; 4) Chin tuck; 5) Neck Liposuction (using hand suction, vaser or smartlipo); 6) Laser skin resurfacing over the entire face or limited to under the eyes, over the eyelids, around the mouth, or earlobes; 7) Fillers to soften lip lines or add volume to the cheeks (this can also be done with a fat transfer); 8) Botox or other neurotoxins to relax the jowls, frown lines, crow’s feet or forehead lines; 9) GFX (glabellar frown treatment) as a more permanent botox type treatment to relax the glabella and lift the brows; 10) Laser neck rejuvenation.*
We have called this procedure the Smartlift since 2004. However, recently other physicians have either trademarked the name for their own facelifts or started using it for other procedures involving laser liposuction. To avoid confusion and to not step on anyone’s recent trademarking attempts, we have decided to change the name to Dr. Gupta’s EasyLift*.
*Before and after results of all procedures will vary from patient to patient
*Before and after results of all procedures will vary from patient to patient
