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Soft Face Lift Using Threads

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Simplified Facial Rejuvenation

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Abstract

Society is changing and consequentially so are tastes, concepts of beauty, and style of life. Patients who were asking surgeons to be transformed or pulled to the maximum to give a youthful appearance now desire less. Today patients ask for mini-invasive and less traumatic surgery, possibly with local anesthesia, and are looking for the best result with the least scar and the least trauma. The scalpel cannot remove “lived” years but it can try to remove a few of the “shown” years and, at the same time, it can help to improve the quality of the life.

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  1. Surgery School of the University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Pier Antonio Bacci

  2. Via Monte Falco 31, 52100, Arezzo, Italy

    Pier Antonio Bacci

  3. Surgical Department and Surgery School of Siena University, Siena, Italy

    Sergio Mancini

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    Melvin A. Shiffman

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Bacci, P., Mancini, S. (2008). Soft Face Lift Using Threads. In: Shiffman, M., Mirrafati, S., Lam, S., Cueteaux, C. (eds) Simplified Facial Rejuvenation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71097-4_35

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