After a Face Lift - Keeping Your Skin Young

Following a face lift, the first thing most patients want to know is how to take care of their skin so they can maximize the effects and extend the results, particularly in the case of people who feel their faces aged far more quickly than their years would indicate. They know they have not treated their skin well, and want to know what they can do to rectify this situation. The less work you have to have done in the plastic surgeon’s office, the more natural your results are going to look. Instead of going back in for touchup work every year, here are some simple things you can do to stay young and fresh looking for a long time to come.

Avoid Cigarettes

If you are a smoker, putting down the cigarettes is one of the best things you can do for your skin. The effects of smoking on your overall health are well documented. Smoking can cause circulatory, heart, and respiratory problems, as well as lead directly to cancer. But what it does to the skin, hair, and teeth is more immediate and offers many a more pressing desire to quit, as the results are so much more obvious. If you want to keep your skin looking young and fresh, crushing out your last butt would be a good step in the right direction.

Avoid The Sun

For years, doctors recommended that their patients get outside and soak up as much sunlight as possible. A tremendous source of vitamin D, this advice wasn’t entirely ridiculous. But as we have become wiser, we realize that the sun is also a powerful source of skin problems, including melanoma in some cases. Of course, you don’t need to contract melanoma to suffer skin damage from the sun. Excess sunlight can promote leathery skin, wrinkles, moles, and freckles. Many of these effects will take a toll on the results of your face lift, and cause you to look much older than you really are.

Get Your Exercise

Few people don’t look better with most of the fat removed from their face. A face lift can stretch those wrinkles away, but it can’t remove excess fatty tissue from your cheeks and jowls. Make sure you follow a good diet and get plenty of exercise. A person will almost always look more youthful when they fill their lives with plenty of activity and good, nutritious foods. The answer to healthy, young looking skin isn’t always to be found in a bottle or even at the end of a surgeon’s scalpel. These things are great, but there are plenty of lifestyle changes you can make that will give you natural results.