In plastic surgery, as in the rest of medicine, optimum treatment proceeds from an accurate diagnosis. To accurately diagnose facial aging the surgeon needs to look at the three key regions of the face: the upper cheek (some call it the midface), the jaw border, and the neck. In each of these areas there may be problems of tone, which improve with lifting procedures, or volume, which improve with the addition or removal of fat.
An increasing percentage of our patients choose from our portfolio of limited incision surgeries for facial rejuvenation. These surgeries include customized face lifts, cheek lifts, jaw border lifts, and neck lifts, as well as certain types of brow lifts and eyelid surgery. They can be carried out under local anesthesia in the comfort and privacy of the Whole Beauty® Institute in Chicago and Winnetka.
As years pass, many people lose significant volume in the upper cheek. Facial fat transfer rejuvenation restores the missing volume with fat from other areas of the body and returns the beautiful curves of youth.
Dr. John Q. Cook has performed over a thousand facial fat transfer treatments on patients. The result is soft and subtle, and restores vitality to the face.
