As you age, the skin naturally loses its strength and tends to sag a little. There is a general looseness in the skin on your face that is caused by weaker collagen. There are several solutions that can reverse this process, and a popular one is the thread lift. This procedure has benefits over other procedures as it is minimally invasive and has very little recovery time.

The actual procedure involves placing temporary stitches beneath the skin so that it can be stretched out. Besides being physically stretched out, the threads initiate the body’s innate healing response. This response occurs as the threads are considered a site of injury and starts making more collagen at this site where the threads are. This is an expected and desired response of the body as the collagen helps for a youthful look. Once the procedure is done, there is no visible scarring, with minimal post-op pain or down-time. Thread lifts are often combined with autologous fat transfers to yield a more permanent facial rejuvenation.