For most of the twentieth century, a facelift meant pulled skin, unnatural tension, and a face that moved like a mask. Patients knew the look, surgeons knew the look, and the stigma it carried kept many people away from surgical rejuvenation entirely. What changed was not simply better technique. What changed was a fundamentally different theory of what a facelift should do.
The Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended (MADE) facelift, developed
