Brief YouTube transcript of a short interview in which Emily, a 28-year-old who had a facelift recently (day four post-op), describes wanting to 'be the best version' of herself. Dermatologist Shereene Idriss strongly criticizes getting a facelift at such a young age, explaining that there is negligible skin laxity at 28, that facelifts create scar tissue and tension which can accelerate or unevenly age the face, that facelifts typically last 8–10 years, and that surgeons should decline to operate when it is too early.
Questions this video answers
28 years old.
Day four post-op (surgery occurred on Tuesday).
Dermatologist focusing on cosmetics.
Well.
This is day four. Had surgery on Tuesday. That's Emily. She's 28, and she's just had a facelift. A year or so on, she explains to me why she had the surgery.
I just wanted to be the best version of myself. What the. If you are in your late 20s or 30s and even thinking about getting a facelift. Let me stop you right there. I am a dermatologist. I focus on cosmetics. And I will say this flat out, you do not need a facelift this early in your life. Facelift is a facelift. You are cutting tissue, lifting skin, and creating scar tissue that you. You don't even need yet, because guess what? You have zero laxity. There is nothing to lift, especially not 28. What you're doing is just repositioning your skin with tighter sutures, which is already putting your tight skin under unnecessary, more tension. And that tension and the scar tissue that's being created is going to absolutely make you age faster than you think. Scar tissue doesn't age evenly like normal tissue. It's stiffer, it's less elastic, and it doesn't move like normal skin. So when your bone structure starts to melt, because naturally it will resorb with age, that tight scar tissue that you have on top of it is going to start shifting in weird ways, and you're going to get distorted contours, and you're going to look like a stiff old mess. And remember, facelifts only last eight to 10 years. So if you start at 28, you're going to do it again at 28, 38, 48, 58, 68. Each time, you're cutting into the same tissue that has already healed once, twice, three, four, five times, and it's going to get worse every time around. And. And a good surgeon, anybody worth their penny, is going to tell you no if it's too early, because prevention doesn't mean surgery. The goal is not to look like a different person. It's to maintain your face as you age. And if you're looking to look like a different person, swipe away, go watch another video. But cutting into a face that doesn't even need it yet, that's not preventative. That's asinine, and it's reckless.
