{"id":23498,"date":"2025-11-21T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/facelift-neck-lift-before-and-after-56-year-old-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:41:39","slug":"facelift-neck-lift-before-and-after-56-year-old-international-patient","status":"publish","type":"before-after","link":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/facelift-neck-lift-before-and-after-56-year-old-international-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Facelift &amp; Neck Lift Before and After 56 year old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":4636,"template":"","meta":{"h1_first_part":"Facelift & Neck Lift Before and After: ","h1_second_part":"56-Year-Old International Patient's Face and Neck Rejuvenation","patient_age":"56","patient_country":"USA","primary_concern":"<p>Vibrant and active at 56, this international patient felt a growing gap between her energy and a reflection she described as weighted down by gravity. Heavy jowls had squared a jawline that was once a clean V, and neck laxity with banding had become the change she noticed most. We planned a <a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/deep-plane-facelift-in-turkey\/\">deep plane rejuvenation<\/a> of the face and neck to lift the deeper structures, not just the skin.<\/p>","surgeon_approach":"<p>For a 56-year-old with this degree of skin and muscle laxity, we chose a deep plane lift because a surface-only approach would not last.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deep plane repositioning:<\/strong> By releasing the retaining ligaments beneath the SMAS, we lifted the mid-face and jowls vertically and restored cheek volume to its youthful height, avoiding the pulled, windblown look of skin-only lifts.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/neck-lift-in-turkey\/\">cervicoplasty<\/a> for the neck:<\/strong> A platysmaplasty tightened the neck muscles and redraped the skin to rebuild a clean angle and erase the banding.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/our-technology-standards\/\">evidence-based recovery technologies<\/a>:<\/strong> She completed recovery with <strong>HBOT<\/strong> and <strong>LLLT<\/strong> to limit swelling and bruising before her flight home, the plan we follow for international patients travelling home, Canadians included.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","recovery_timeline":"2 weeks"},"before-after-procedures":[189,190],"before-after-categories":[188],"class_list":["post-23498","before-after","type-before-after","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","before-after-procedures-deep-plane-facelift","before-after-procedures-neck-lift","before-after-categories-facial-plastic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/23498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/before-after"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/23498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23499,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/23498\/revisions\/23499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"before-after-procedures","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-procedures?post=23498"},{"taxonomy":"before-after-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-categories?post=23498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}