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Facelift

facelift

If you are considering Facelift in Croatia, here you’ll find useful instructions regarding your procedure.

Facelift is the most demanding cosmetic surgery procedure. It requires extensive surgeon’s experience as well as patient’s cooperation and patience during recovery phase.

Facelift comprises tightening of the skin of the face and neck.

Surgical team headed by Dr Toncic has perfected the facelift surgery through years of experience. In our clinic, facelift and all other procedures are performed extremely carefully and minimally invasively while paying great attention to details.

Beside very precise and demanding surgical technique and immense surgical experience, a surgeon performing facelift must have well developed sense for shaping. For facelift surgery, Dr Toncic primarily relies on his eye for details and his sense of proportion.

Prior to the operation – patient’s preparation:

Although this operation is preformed regularly in our clinic, the professionalism of our surgical team headed by Dr Toncic makes us pay special attention to the preoperative preparation of our patient.

  • Prior to the facelift surgery, the patient goes through a routine preoperative analysis, which comprises the internal specialist examination with ECG and a blood test analysis.
  • We have a special arrangement with our foreign patients. Prior to the operation and preoperative examination, we hold consultation through emails, photos and by phone. This way, our surgeons get a deeper insight into the individual case, according to which they can estimate whether the patient is a suitable candidate for the desired operation. This procedure allows our patient to come to Zagreb for the operation one time only. When our patient arrives, we hold final preoperative consultation and medical examination (including blood test and internal specialist examination with ECG), where we discuss the details of the operation together with the patient. After the consultation, we perform the surgery.
  • To ensure the success of the facelift procedure, during the final preoperative examination, the surgeon makes a detailed and precise drawing on the patient’s face. This is the point where Dr Toncic’s artistic experience and meticulousness are best shown. The drawing itself is an important orientation factor for the surgeon during the surgery, and as such it represents quite a big step on the way to the final success of the operation.
  • Before the operation, in our correspondence and detailed conversation, we instruct our patients to discontinue painkillers and no steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, containing acetylsalicylic acid like Aspirin, Andol or Acisal. This is very important factor in patient’s preparation for the surgery, as this way we prevent possible bleeding and hematoma during and after the procedure. Following this instruction makes the recovery quicker and more successful, and the result of the operation is improved.

Anesthesia and the procedure:

  • This operation is done under general anesthesia given by a top anesthesiologist. The patient is asleep during the operation and the whole procedure is painless.
  • The patient stays in the clinic for 24 hours. It takes about an hour for preoperative preparations, and around three hours for the operation itself after which the patient rests. Once discharged from the surgery the patient is sent to home care.

Postoperative period and recovery:

  • Great success of the operations in Dr Toncic’s clinic is largely due not only to the experience of our surgical team, precise and enhanced techniques, but also to well organized professional postoperative care.
  • To be sure of the success of the operation and wellbeing of the patient, Dr Toncic and his team insist on regular checkups and everyday contact with the patient.
  • For our patients’ safety, successful recovery and postoperative monitoring, we recommend optimal length of stay in Zagreb. This way, we leave nothing to chance. We monitor our patient’s recovery completely, which is crucial for our patient’s health and the result of the operation.
  • Postoperative recovery after facelift is individual, usually lasting around 10 days after the operation. The stitches are removed 7 days after the surgery, and our patients can resume their personal and professional activities, having in mind, though, to avoid harder physical activities for 30 days after the operation.
  • In order to have the least noticeable scar possible, it would be best to avoid sun exposure for six to twelve months after the operation.
  • Very important factor in the postoperative recovery after facelift surgery is for smokers to stop smoking at least a week before the operation and two weeks after the operation. We insist that our patients follow the instructions, as it has major influence on the result of the facelift operation.

Required stay in Zagreb:

  • Required stay in Zagreb is 10 to 14 days, so we can remove the stitches and monitor the early postoperative period completely. We indeed require that our patients stay in Zagreb after the facelift procedure for the optimal time, as this period is of crucial importance for our patient’s health and for the result of the operation. Having followed all the instructions, our patient can safely go home without risking the possible postoperative complications.
  • Sick leave lasts 14 days for facelift surgery. 7 days following the operation, we remove the stitches. 14 days after home care and recovery, the patient can resume her personal and professional activities.