And here’s another breakthrough to add to the growing list of plastic surgery procedures that do not require an operation. The thread lift is a minimally invasive cosmetic technique that is increasingly being seen as an alternative to eyelid surgery.
In a thread lift treatment, special sutures or threads made of a synthetic substance called polypropylene are introduced under the skin surface. These sutures, with their knot-like barbs, peg and bind the underlying tissue and lift the eye, eliminating the droopy eye look.
The incisions that are involved are miniscule and can be performed under local anesthesia and don’t take more than an hour. A needle is used to insert the sutures under the tissues that need to be worked upon.
Thread lifts are proving to be alternatives to various other facial surgery options as well. Facelifts, brow lifts and neck lifts are the cosmetic surgeries besides eyelid surgery that are being replaced by thread lift treatments.
As of 2006, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported a total of 5,000 thread lifts being performed by its members. Such numbers attest to the attention that this plastic surgery treatment is being given so much attention by surgeons and patients alike.
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