Dr. Brace is an expert facelift surgeon with double board-certified training. His practice is focused exclusively on surgery of the face and neck. He has studied under facelift masters and innovators and has refined his own techniques. He continues to be a lifelong student and teacher of this surgery.

His results are consistently beautiful and natural. His goal with each patient is to restore the face to a youthful shape without changing an individual’s appearance or making him or her look like someone else. Dr. Brace creates elegant refinements, reversing the changes time has created and recapturing the natural beauty and contours of the face and neck.

Surgical facelifts have evolved from tightening the skin alone to tightening the layer of the face called the SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) and removing the excess skin. When the skin is treated alone (without SMAS), an unnatural appearance is created, and where the stigma of unnatural facelift surgery originates.

The procedures that tighten the SMAS are advantageous because tension is taken off the skin and put in a deeper layer of the face. This gives a natural result along the neck and jawline, but the result is limited by not allowing for correction of the nasolabial folds. The advantage is minimal downtime (one to two weeks) but the results have a shorter lifespan, with a high revision rate at 2 years.

Each neck lift procedure is tailored to specific concerns. For fullness under the chin from excess fatty tissue, a micro liposuction procedure is the most effective and definitive procedure for contouring the neck and achieving great definition of the jawline. For those who wish to avoid the OR, Profound RF micro-needling can both melt fat and tighten skin. Similarly, Belkyra injections destroy fat and can create definition in this area. For those with prominent neck bands, the surgical solutions is called a platysmaplasty.

This involves removing fat between the bands surgically and sewing the muscle bands together to create a smooth neckline. If there is excess skin or a ‘turkey neck’, then this skin can be directly excised and closed with a Grecian Urn direct neck lift. In some cases, adding a chin implant to increase the projection of the chin and stretch the neck skin is all that is required. Not everyone is a good candidate for isolated neck procedures and often a facelift approach is a better option. A consultation is required to determine who is a good candidate for these procedures.