This is a YouTube video titled "December newsletter" created in December 2024 featuring Corey Goldberg delivering a monologue-style update about facial aesthetic procedures, specifically facelifts and phenol croton oil peels. The content includes information about the longevity and recovery of facelifts, upcoming professional activities, and practice availability. The video is a single-speaker presentation without a conversational format.
Hi, I'm Corey Goldberg. Welcome to our December newsletter. And this month we are calling it Best Face Forward because we are featuring facelifts. Last month we featured phenol crotion oil peels, which are a really great way of addressing the canvas of the face, the skin, and rejuvenating and reversing sun damage. While a facelift is really powerful at restoring structure, lifting things that have descended volume back in places where we've had deflation, and the two techniques treating the skin and surface and then the structure of the face are actually complementary. And I often do them together or in a staged fashion. I just got back from a conference of the Canadian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons in Montreal where I presented a case that I did doing a combination of a phenol crotanoil peel, followed a few months later by a facelift and got a lot of very good feedback from the other surgeons at the conference about the presentation. A lot of interest in in learning how to do phenol peels. So I may do another course in September again next year in Toronto. This month we're featuring facelifts and I often get asked first, you know, how long do they last for? And I usually tell patients to expect that a facelift will last for about 10 to 15 years, at which point even though there will still be a benefit from having had the facelift, there will be ongoing aging. And at that point, 10 to 15 years later, it might be time to think about doing the same procedure procedure a second time if someone wants to maintain that appearance. It's important to note that facelifts are meant to have a natural appearance, that it's meant to restore a rejuvenated look, not to make the face look pulled. Usually an overdone pulled face is either a poor technique or too many operations exceeding what someone actually needs to be done following a facelift. I usually tell patients to expect about three to five days of downtime at home and probably about seven to 10 days before someone can go back to public or social activity and reasonably not have anyone recognize that something has been done. I am excited this month in December to be traveling down to San Francisco where I'm going to be spending a day in the operating room with the world famous facial plastic surgeon Dr. Tim Martin, whose specialty is facelifts. And I'm looking to add some extra tools to my facelift toolbox. I'm also going to be attending the Buck Institute on Aging center for Healthy Longevity Roundtable for Longevity Clinics. I hope to bring back some really interesting longevity tools from that as well. Right now the practice is quite busy. Our operating rooms are full and booked into February and in fact we've added several extra OR days. So if you are thinking about winter surgery, I'd be happy to hear from you and get you set up. Time is booking quickly. In the meantime, I wish you a happy December all the best over the holiday season and I will check in with you again in January.
