Nasolabial fold grafts can enhance a facelift by Dr. Philip Young of Bellevue | Seattle: Part of the cause of the nasolabial fold is a volume loss around the mouth region. Essentially with any fold, you have a global loss of volume around the area. So really you can rejuvenate the fold by volumizing all around the fold. For the nasolabial fold this can mean around the nose, mouth and cheek. Facelifts can help by decreasing the amount of tissue | skin that is contributing to the fold but you need some volume | graft to the fold and around the fold to help improve this area:
The before and after above was not done with any facelifting or cutting procedure and was accomplished with just volume and through our procedure called the YoungVitalizer. We used 2 areas of improved thinking to achieve these results: One; Our Improved Understanding of the Aging Process ; and Two; Our better blueprint for achieving Beauty – i.e. Dr. Young’s Award Winning Theory on Facial Beauty Called the Circles of Prominence. You can also learn more about the YoungVitalizer in these series of articles here: Learn More About the YoungVitalizer.