How Thread Lifts Work

Name: How Thread Lifts Work
Uploaded: 2025-09-26T16:00:53+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: YouTube video (creator/speaker: Dr. Charles Mok) titled "How Thread Lifts Work." A single speaker explains the cosmetic thread-lift: barbed/cogged suture…

26 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video (creator/speaker: Dr. Charles Mok) titled "How Thread Lifts Work." A single speaker explains the cosmetic thread-lift: barbed/cogged suture threads carried in a blunt-tipped cannula are inserted via small skin punctures and positioned from facial ligaments (zygomatic and masseter) to lift tissue. Procedures typically use about 20–30 threads and are performed under tumescent local anesthesia.

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And the idea of the thread lift is you would have a suture material that has little barbs in it, not like a barbed wire. They're softer than that, but similar in nature. The ones we use actually have cogs on them. You numb the face up and then the thread is in a little cannula, a little tube as a blunt rounded end. We poke a hole in the skin and run it from a ligament in the face down to the tissue we want to grab. Pull the cannula out and then we push the face up onto the thread. And the anchor points we use are the zygomatic ligament, which is just below the zygomatic bone, the masseter ligament just in front of the masseter muscle. Those are nice dense structures that we can pull the face on. So we deploy about 30 threads to the face. 20 to 30. Typically the procedure would hurt, so we do numb you up entirely for it with something called tumescent anesthetic.