Facelift St. Louis

Dr. Michele Koo, MD, FACS, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon feels that facial cosmetic surgery should be subtle and refined. She applies her facial contouring philosophy of less is more to her delicate, precise techniques when creating a rested rejuvenated look for your face and neck. Dr. Koo has advanced her unique approach to the neck and jawline, addressing the jowl areas and nasolabial folds with a tailored neck lift that can often be performed in the office under local anesthesia. Your neck and jawline will look smooth and your face refreshed.

Dr. Koo enhances your facial rejuvenation with skin products and facial fillers such as JUVÉDERM® and RESTYLANE®. She also uses her entire armamentarium of skills, including BOTOX® Cosmetic and her FRAXEL® repair laser to smooth out your wrinkles and deep creases, creating the overall complete look of a spa vacation that will keep your friends guessing.

About The Facelift Procedure

In time, gravity, sun exposure, and the stresses of daily life take their toll on our faces: deep creases appear beside the mouth, the jawline slackens, and folds and fat deposits appear on the neck. Facelifts counteract these problems by removing fat and tightening skin and muscles, giving your face a fresher, youthful look -- after surgery, many of Dr. Koo's patients appear as much as ten or 15 years younger.

Facelift St. Louis Facelifts are most often performed on people in their 40s-60s, those in their 70s or 80s can have facelifts as well. The procedure can be combined with others (browlift, eyelid surgery, nose reshaping) for more dramatic results, or it can be restricted to the neck (necklift) if the patient's problems center there. These procedure can be completely customized to fit each patient's individual needs and to provide optimal results.

Patients who smoke, take medications or have certain medical conditions such as high blood pressure, blood clotting problems or the tendency to form excessive scars should discuss potential risks with Dr. Koo. Patients with short hair may want to consider letting it grow before surgery to better conceal scars.

Facelifts are usually outpatient procedures and may be performed in an office-based facility, surgery center or hospital, typically under local anesthesia combined with a sedative. The procedure itself varies depending the patient's facial structure (i.e. where the incisions are placed, whether one or both sides of the face are worked on at once, in which order the steps are performed).

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View before-and-after photos of Dr. Koo's patients who have undergone facelifts

Facial Rejuvenation St. Louis

The natural consequences of aging on our skin include sun damage, freckles, age spots, acne scarring, enlarged pores, and redness caused by broken capillaries and rosacea. Laser facial rejuvenation reduces these signs of aging using non-invasive, painless pulses of light. Treatments can also improve the appearance of birthmarks and uneven pigmentation and stimulate the production of collagen. Dr. Koo will work with you to develop the best laser treatment for your individual skin condition.

Laser light is absorbed by water or dark pigments in our body's tissues (such as melanin in the skin and hemoglobin in the blood) and converted to heat. A variety of functional and cosmetic skin problems can be treated with lasers. These lasers are often specialized to handle a particular type of problem; there is no "cure-all" laser capable of correcting all problems.

Lasers offer many advantages over traditional, mechanical technology, including "bloodless" surgery, reduced risk of infection, less scarring, high precision, limited injury, and faster procedures. Many of Dr. Koo's patients are more than satisfied with the results of their fully personalized laser treatment.

Laser treatments can reduce the appearance of sun damage, acne scars, stretch marks, sun damage, wrinkles, fine lines, vascular lesions (spider veins and redness on the face) and uneven pigmentation.

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