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Swanson Center Cosmetic & Laser Surgery

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There is no specific age for having a facelift. My youngest facelift patient was 33 and the oldest 85. A common age is around 50. Most women are noticing jowls at this age. Also, this may be a watershed time in their lives—the onset of middle age with grown-up children and perhaps finally the opportunity to do something for oneself rather than others. Sometimes patients are motivated by a marital breakup, substantial weight loss, change in job, retirement, or moving to a new city. But there is no ideal age for a facelift and likewise no reason to delay the surgery until a certain numerical age.

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Specialties: Plastic Surgery

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11/12/2013

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Dr. Swanson is very willing to work with his patients in order to give them satisfaction. He cares about his reputation and his patients and wants what is best. His office and facility are very nice buildings and his staff is extremely friendly.

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Phone: (913) 663-1030

Address: 11413 Ash St, Leawood, KS 66211

Website: http://www.swansoncenter.com

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Swanson Center Cosmetic & Laser Surgery

General Practitioners

Medical Weight Loss
There is no specific age for having a facelift. My youngest facelift patient was 33 and the oldest 85. A common age is around 50. Most women are noticing jowls at this age. Also, this may be a watershed time in their lives—the onset of middle age with grown-up children and perhaps finally the opportunity to do something for oneself rather than others. Sometimes patients are motivated by a marital breakup, substantial weight loss, change in job, retirement, or moving to a new city. But there is no ideal age for a facelift and likewise no reason to delay the surgery until a certain numerical age.
Constipation
Electrocardiogram
Today it is hard to imagine a cardiologist working without the benefit of an EKG. It is just as difficult to imagine any serious effort at reducing DVT risk that does not include screening patients for these clots, which might otherwise develop undetected.

Ophthalmologists

Laser Eye Surgery
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011;127:823–834). Many of my patients are also losing weight, exercising, quitting smoking, eating better, having cosmetic dentistry, whitening their teeth, undergoing Lasik vision correction, and having their varicose veins injected.

Depression

Ultrasound
It turns out there is a better way, and that is ultrasound surveillance. This method helps remove the guesswork. Patients are scanned to detect blood clots. Those who show evidence of a blood clot are then given anticoagulation, typically for 3 months. This method avoids giving a potentially harmful medication to a patient who does not need it.
MRI
A facelift does not restore lost volume to the face. Many techniques elevate the fallen cheek fat (“malar fat pad”), but these maneuvers provide no net increase in facial volume. To provide youthful facial fullness, fat transfer is the key, using donated fat from another area of the body (usually the tummy). The successful integration of fat injection with facelifting is an important advance in facial rejuvenation and one that cannot be overlooked by 21st-century plastic surgeons. Facial fat injection has been shown to provide lasting fullness in the cheeks (Swanson E. Malar augmentation assessed by magnetic resonance imaging in patients after facelift and fat injection.

Minimally Invasive Surgery
Reconstructive Surgery
DR. SWANSON ATTENDED MEDICAL SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, WHERE HE GRADUATED WITH HONORS AT THE AGE OF 22. IN 1988, HE COMPLETED A RESIDENCY IN PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. DR. SWANSON STARTED HIS PRACTICE IN KANSAS CITY IN 1989.

Plastic Surgeons

Botox
Periodic maintenance procedures after surgery can reduce subsequent changes of aging. Patients may return every few years for a light laser resurfacing, fat injection, commercial fillers, and Botox. With such maintenance (and sun avoidance), patients may look better in 6 years than they did before surgery. Some of my patients in their 50s and 60s believe they look better than they did a decade ago, and some fifty-somethings (See B.W., age 52, in Patient Photographs) even say they never looked better.
Brow Lift
It is not unusual for a patient to assume a facelift also treats the forehead. Such an assumption is reasonable. After all, the forehead is the upper third of the face. However, by tradition, plastic surgeons consider forehead rejuvenation separately. A forehead lift, also called a brow lift or forehead-plasty is often recommended simultaneously to treat the forehead at the same time the middle and lower thirds of the face are treated with a facelift.
Eyelid Surgery
Some surgical improvements may persist beyond a decade. Double chins are an example. Fat removed under the chin does not come back, although the skin gradually loosens. Patients treated simultaneously with a chin implant have a permanently enhanced profile. The results of eyelid surgery may well last beyond 10 years. It is important for the reader to maintain a healthy skepticism of surgeons’ claims, including mine. For this reason, long-term follow-up photographs are included in the Patient Photographs section.
Liposuction
A hematoma is a collection of blood under the skin that is usually removed by the surgeon. This is a possible complication of all surgical procedures that involve elevation of skin flaps (“undermining”), creating a potential space for fluid accumulation. A hematoma does not typically occur after liposuction because there is no sharp dissection and no creation of large spaces for blood to accumulate. In cases where there is substantial tissue undermining, such as facelifts (and abdominoplasties), a drain is inserted at the time of surgery. The drain helps draw off blood and fluid that would otherwise pool under the skin. Drains are usually removed the morning after surgery.
Breast Augmentation
Breast Reduction
Sometimes, reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery come together in the same operation. For example, it is not unusual to open a nasal airway (called a septoplasty) during a rhinoplasty. The patient breathes better and looks better. Will insurance pay? Just for the part of the surgery to improve the airway. A breast reduction can be both functional and cosmetic. It can alleviate back and shoulder pain while improving the appearance of the breasts.
Breast Lift
When operating on the face, it is important to avoid tension on the skin because the skin stretches easily. Most people have no trouble understanding this concept, and the reason for using another tissue handle (the SMAS) for elevation. One can hardly expect the skin to hold on its own (the same is true in breast lift surgery). It stretched out before and can be expected to do so again.
Rhinoplasty
The facelift remains one of the most effective procedures in the cosmetic surgeon’s “toolbox,” particularly when combined with other techniques to provide true facial rejuvenation. Properly performed, a facelift can do wonders, and there is presently no substitute, regardless of advertising claims to the contrary. But it is a highly technical procedure, and there is a wide range of results from surgeon to surgeon. The technique used may be vastly different between operators, even those performing “deep plane” techniques. It is imperative that the surgeon be skilled and experienced. The facelift is the centerpiece of a cosmetic surgeon’s anti-aging capabilities. Like rhinoplasty, it is a complex procedure that is never fully mastered. The surgeon must bring his or her A-game to the operating table. There is little margin for error.
Breast Reconstruction
During residency training, plastic surgeons are trained in techniques to repair or rebuild body defects caused by injury, disease, or a birth defect, such as a cleft lip. Typically, plastic surgery residents have minimal exposure to training in “cosmetic” surgery, which is defined as surgery undertaken to enhance a normal appearance, rather than surgery undertaken in an effort to make a normal appearance from an abnormal one (such as breast reconstruction after a mastectomy), which would be considered “reconstructive” surgery.
Plastic Surgery
First, this calculation is unreliable in determining who is at risk. The vast majority of patients who receive routine anticoagulation based on this score were never destined to develop a clot. Routine anticoagulation is not FDA-approved in healthy plastic surgery patients and the effectiveness is questionable at best. Recent evidence suggests the course of anticoagulation is too early and too short to make a difference. Plus, the bleeding risk is increased. So surgeons are doing very little to alter the risk of blood clots and at the same time increasing the risk of bleeding.
Face Lift
A lot is happening this year at the Swanson Center! Swanson Center is Getting a Major Renovation The Swanson Center, built in 1998, is getting a facelift. The office is undergoing a major makeover after 25 years, including a completely renovated interior but the same...
Neck Lift
When combined with a cheek lift (which is part of the deep-plane lift), the facelift really should be called a cheek, jowl and neck lift to properly describe the treatment areas.
Blepharoplasty
Occasionally, patients inquire about a “midface lift.” This term refers to the elevation of the cheek (malar fat pad). Some pioneering surgeons attempted to elevate the cheek using the same lower lid skin incision used to perform a lower blepharoplasty. It seemed like a good idea to try to make maximum use of this eyelid incision. But this approach did not work well in practice and, to their credit, the authors quickly alerted other plastic surgeons of its shortcomings.
Abdominoplasty
Swanson E. Comparison of limited and full dissection abdominoplasty using laser fluorescence imaging to evaluate perfusion of the abdominal skin.
Body Lift
Breast Surgery
Convinced that “what we measure, we improve,” in 2012, Dr. Swanson published a new system for measuring the results of cosmetic breast surgery. Dr. Swanson has used this system to evaluate both his own results and published results. Dr. Swanson’s laser fluorescence perfusion study, published in the
Otoplasty
Scar Revision
Procedure: Facelift, submental lipectomy, upper blepharoplasties, fat injection (45 cc), CO2 laser resurfacing, cautery of nasal veins, endoscopic forehead lift, and scar revision of left forehead.
Body Contouring
Dr. Swanson’s book, “Evidence-Based Body Contouring Surgery and VTE Prevention” was published by Springer on January 19, 2018. This book is available at
Laser Resurfacing
Almost all surgery is invasive, by definition. Even a procedure some consider nonsurgical—laser resurfacing—causes an open wound and cannot be considered noninvasive. There is no rule that you have to look altered if you have surgery. No one wants a radical difference (appearance altering), but a dramatic change (appearance enhancing) is welcome.
Cosmetic Surgery
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Bariatric Surgery
Chin Augmentation
Procedure: Facelift, upper blepharoplasties, submental lipectomy, fat injection (30 cc), CO2 laser skin resurfacing, and chin augmentation. A skin lesion was removed from the right jawline, leaving a small scar.
Forehead Lift
Procedure: Facelift, secondary lower blepharoplasties, facial fat injection, endoscopic forehead lift, and removal of bony forehead lesion. This patient had a bony lesion that was removed using the same hidden incisions that were used for the forehead lift.

Lesions
Procedure: Facelift, submental lipectomy, upper and lower blepharoplasties, chin implant, fat injection, setback otoplasties, full face CO2 laser resurfacing, cautery of facial spider veins, and removal of skin lesions on face and neck.
Skin Care
There are advantages in not waiting once the signs of aging are apparent. Having a facelift earlier rather than later, while the skin still has greater elasticity, avoids deeper creases that can be more difficult to treat later on. With proper skin care (i.e., sun protection) and future touch-up procedures as needed, many patients can maintain an appearance much younger than their chronological age well into their later years—a “50,000 mile overhaul” followed by tune-ups, so to speak.

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