{"id":15802,"date":"2025-11-01T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/deep-plane-facelift-before-and-after-54-year-old-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:44:35","slug":"deep-plane-facelift-before-and-after-54-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"before-after","link":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/deep-plane-facelift-before-and-after-54-year-old-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Plane Facelift Before and After 54 year old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2742,"template":"","meta":{"h1_first_part":"Deep Plane Facelift Before and After","h1_second_part":"54 year old woman","patient_age":"54","patient_country":"USA","primary_concern":"<p>\"Turn back the clock, not change the face.\" That was the instruction this 54-year-old professional from the USA gave at her consultation \u2014 along with its counterpart fear, the \"wind-swept\" look she associated with traditional facelifts.<\/p>\n<p>Her before photos explained the request: heavy jowling that had buried her jawline, the drooping skin and vertical bands of a \"turkey neck\", and deepening marionette lines from mid-face volume descent. Everything pointed downward; nothing needed reinventing.<\/p>","surgeon_approach":"<p>Her surgeon's diagnosis placed the problem beneath the skin \u2014 in the SMAS layer and platysma \u2014 and built a two-part plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/deep-plane-facelift-in-turkey\/\">Deep plane facelift<\/a>:<\/strong> working under the SMAS, the key retaining ligaments were released so the descended fat pads and muscle could travel back up as one unit \u2014 repositioning rather than pulling, with no tension left on the skin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platysmaplasty:<\/strong> the separated vertical neck bands repaired at the midline and the excess skin removed, rebuilding the angle beneath her chin through a structural <a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/neck-lift-in-turkey\/\">neck lift<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What the after photos show:<\/strong> her own face, roughly a decade earlier \u2014 sharp jawline, quiet neck, softened marionette lines, and not a trace of tightness. The clock turned back; the face unchanged, exactly as commissioned.<\/p>\n<p>Her result matured over three months, with reviews continuing remotely after her return to the USA.<\/p>","recovery_timeline":"3 months"},"before-after-procedures":[125],"before-after-categories":[121],"class_list":["post-15802","before-after","type-before-after","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","before-after-procedures-deep-plane-facelift","before-after-categories-facial-plastic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/15802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/before-after"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/15802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22184,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/15802\/revisions\/22184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"before-after-procedures","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-procedures?post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"before-after-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-categories?post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}