263: Five Minute Friday: Are Thread-Lifts Worth It??

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Happy Friday, Beauty Byters!

In this week’s Five Minute Friday, I will be discussing Thread Lifts! Thread-lifts are worth it for the right patient with the right skin laxity, done by the right injector. If you have mild to moderate skin laxity, the results can be great! For patients with too much skin laxity, a face lift is needed to tighten and trim excess skin. However, it is important to note that this procedure along with filler injections, are all secondary to surgery. The gold standard is always a surgical brow lift and mid face lift. Tune in to hear how thread-lifts are done, how they work, and how they can be botched! I love informing my Beauty Byters with new information! Have a question or something you’d like covered on the podcast? Send me a DM or email [email protected]!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.
0:20.1	And today on the podcast, it's time for a
0:22.5	five-minute Friday. And I'm going to talk to you all about threads. So what are thread lifts?
0:29.8	Threadlifts are super sexy. Everybody's heard about threads. It's the biggest trend. Everyone thinks
0:35.6	that it's the next best thing to look like Bella Hadid, but I want to give some truth to this talk. I recently lectured at a meeting,
0:43.8	and the topic of my lecture was thread lifts, are they worth it? Are they worth it? In some instances,
0:50.6	yes. And are they always worth it? No. So let's talk about the reasons why threads are good and the
0:58.4	reasons why threads can be not so good. So I think that threads have been around for a long,
1:04.5	long time, more than 50 years. We have used threads surgically in the operating room during facelift surgery, doing cheek suspension
1:13.6	procedures with sutures for a long time. And we talk about a thread lift. It's actually not
1:19.9	a thread. It's a suture. And these sutures are made of a material that is generally dissolvable
1:26.7	and absorbable and temporary. So it's a one-year
1:29.7	typical product called either polydioxinone or polylactic acid. These are the polysaccharides or
1:37.2	sugar-type molecules that are woven into a cable like a stitch, a suture. And they're degradable. Your body breaks them down. They are
1:46.7	metabolized. They go away. But in the process of being placed, a foreign body placed in your body
1:51.7	is going to generate a whole lot of fibrosis, inflammation. And your body treats foreign bodies
1:59.4	as an element that needs to be walled off, walls them off with
2:03.4	collagen, beautiful, lovely collagen. So one of the nicest benefits of the threads is while they are
2:09.6	temporary, they do trigger the production of new collagen. And when the thread is gone and fully
2:17.3	metabolized and is no longer
2:19.6	present, you are left behind with this nice tract of fibrosis or collagen production that's going to
2:25.0	hopefully lift, suspend, and improve the underlying tissues. So I like that concept of thread lifts.
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