Combining Structural Facial Fat Grafting with Laser Neck Tightening.

No matter what your age, fat can be liposuctioned from where you don’t want it and transferred to areas that can use some extra volume such as around the temples, eyes, cheeks, facial folds, lips, chin, jawline. If you would like to look refreshed and remain looking 10 years younger than your actual age, but you don’t want a facelift, then Dr. Goodnight’s Dream Lift may be your solution. Lift your brows, cheeks, jowls and neck, erase wrinkles and fill in facial hollows all under local anesthesia. You can even augment your chin, cheeks or lips. Dr. Goodnight is the only facial plastic surgeon in the area performing these innovative techniques.

Typically, full face fat transfer has been performed under general anesthesia resulting in 3 weeks of severe facial bruising and swelling. Dr. Goodnight has discovered how to perform full face structural fat grafting comfortably under local anesthesia with no initial bruising. This allows him to accurately sculpt your face to cover lower lid bags and facial hollows, fill out wrinkles, and restore the youthful shape to your cheeks, lips and jaw line. Generally, one or two small light bruises show up in 1-2 days and resolve in less than 10 days with Dr. Goodnight’s technique. Stem cells, naturally contained within your fat, become activated and further improve your facial complexion for years after your fat transfer. Most of the fat and stem cells live permanently providing you extremely long lasting results, often for decades. Dr. Goodnight simultaneously uses the latest Smartlipo Triplex Laser to tighten your neck skin and lift your underlying neck muscles. A dissolvable suture that pulls the hanging neck bands together is often recommended for optimal restoration of your youthful neckline.

Dr. Goodnight chose the plastic surgery training that offered him the most experience in facial plastic surgery as this area has the greatest concentration of technically demanding cosmetic surgeries. Thus, Dr. Goodnight did his Head and Neck Surgery training at one of the top five programs in America, UCLA Medical Center, where he performed hundreds of facial cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries. He spent much of his chief residency year training with the facial plastic surgery masters in Beverly Hills, California. He then did a facial plastic surgery fellowship where he refined his training and mastered his techniques.

Dr. Goodnight has returned to the west coast 3 times to train and refine his technique with the inventor of tumescent body liposuction under local anesthesia, Dr. Jeffrey Klein. Dr. Goodnight brings over a decade of body liposuction experience. Rest assured that Dr. Goodnight has the experience to sculpt your body comfortably, so he can help you achieve the shape you desire. Statistically, most patients from other plastic surgeons have all their fat return within 1 year after their liposuction. Dr. Goodnight has found ways to maintain your beauty and make it last for decades.

To assist you in maintaining your beautifully sculpted physiques Dr. Goodnight created 3 DVDs on nutrition, exercise and lifestyle so you are educated on how to stay lean. Dr. Goodnight spent thousands of hours in further training so he can optimally restore your hormonal balance. By restoring your youthful metabolism, and making results come easy to you in the gym, your motivation to have a healthy lifestyle skyrockets. Thus, you can become even leaner and maintain the youthful beauty that he restores for you with his minimally invasive cosmetic procedures.

Dr. Goodnight performs your facelift using tumescent local anesthesia. The face is made numb similar to methods used with liposuction. The procedure is actually begun with the liposuction cannula doing all the initial dissection. Dr. Goodnight prefers the Smartlipo liposuction cannula as it seals the blood vessels prior to the incisions. With the blood vessels sealed, bruising is minimal and healing is rapid. Results are still long lasting since the underlying muscle and fascia is also tightened. Having had a facial fat transfer 3 months prior, under local anesthesia, the youthful fullness of her face is restored. As you see on the preceeding page, at age 80 she still looks better than she did at age 70 prior to the procedures. Results are natural, with no signs of surgery. Dr. Goodnight generally recommends facial fat transfer after facelift for the most natural results. Should she later decide to have a Smartlipo neck and jowl skin tightening she will continue to grow younger looking with age.

Dr. Goodnight has the skill and experience to comfortably numb your scalp, using the tumescent technique, so that this relatively long procedure will remain comfortable. To complete the youthful look of the Dreamlift, most patients should consider framing their face with a great head of hair. The future of hair transplantation is here now in Dr. Goodnight’s office. Sure, you would accept a scar in the back of your head for a great head of hair if there was no other option. But, with Neograft, thereis an option.

The FUE (follicular unit extraction) hair transplant is minimally invasive procedure. With FUE each graft from the back of the head (donor area) is harvested individually and placed in the thinning or balding areas on the top of the head. The hair at the back of the head is genetically programmed not to fall out (not affected by the DHT hormone). The NeoGraft medical device is designed to help the doctor offer his patients this latest, most advanced procedure in hair transplantation while overcoming the problems with manual FUE and those of the “strip” method.

With the FUE method there is little bleeding and fewer complications than with the “strip” method. The procedure is performed with local anesthetic and no intravenous or intra-muscular sedation is required. With the FUE method no linear scars occur as with the “strip” method which can stretch out over time and be quite visible making it difficult to wear short hair. With FUE there is no visible scarring allowing the hair to be worn short. There is little chance with FUE of damage to nerves, causing pain, or damage to major blood vessels. There are fewer limitations on activities for the first few weeks as with the “strip” surgery. A complication sometimes seen with the “strip” surgery is a feeling the scalp is too tight from the suturing together of the scalp. Sometimes permanent numbness in the area where the piece of scalp was removed occurs.

The NeoGraft medical device has been developed to assist the doctor with the FUE procedure in order to make the procedure simpler, faster and more efficacious. The FUE procedure using NeoGraft is not so dependent on the skill of the doctor. Most important however, is that the grafts extracted with the NeoGraft contra-angled tool are of excellent quality and remained moist and robust because of the collection canister frequently misting the grafts, unlike when exposed to open air under hot lamp microscopes with the “strip” method?