The price of a brow lift depends on the region of the country where the surgeon is practicing, and also may depend on what is done during the brow lift.

There are different ways to approach the brow lift either by using endoscopes with or without large incisions or through a coronal incision that goes from ear to ear. Also, there are other minor ancillary procedures you can do to treat the muscles that cause wrinkling.

Generally, a browlift costs between $3500 to $5000 or more depending on what is going to be done and if any ancillary procedures are going to be added.

This is directed to a question that I answered for a patient that had a browlift from another surgeon.  This person had problems moving one of her eyebrows after the procedure.

The nerves that innervate your eyebrow are very sensitive to pressure and stretching which can make them weaker for a time after a browlift. This happens to a lot of surgeons. Sometimes the muscles themselves can suffer trauma that makes them weaker.

Time is important. It could take up to 6 months or more for it to come back. The longer it takes, the greater the possibility of weakness in the nerve and muscle. I’m confident that it will come back though. Your body does amazing things. I would avoid steroids for this and I would eat a well balanced diet to insure that the nerves get nutrition to regenerate.

Browlifts and forehead lifts are the same terms for essentially the same procedure. Both describe elevating the eyebrows to a point that increases the aesthetics / beauty of the eyebrow / eye region to help with tired eyes and extra eyelid skin and drooping brows.

There are many ways to approach the brow lift. You can make an incision along the hairline, behind the hair, or in a forehead crease and the extent of each differs. Importantly, knowing exactly how much to pull up the eyebrows are essential for a great result. You may have seen results in the media of people who don’t look natural. You may have seen Joan Rivers, Pamela Anderson, etc. with brow lifts that leave them looking surprised. The reason for this is that our understanding of aesthetics is not solid at this point. We really don’t know how much the brow should be above the eyelid margin.

This is a question that I addressed for a person who had numbness after a browlift by another doctor. The old technique which required an incision above the eyebrows will cause a lot of numbness in the forehead and scalp area. This approach goes directly through these larger nerves to cause this numbness. To get the feeling back your nerves have to grow over all of the areas and sometimes this doesn’t come back fully. So this could be a permanent thing. Nerve grafting could be a possibility but would be a significant procedure and the results are variable. This option is a complicated approach. Time and waiting can eventually help to allow the nerves to grow back.