Facial threading, also called a thread lift, can be a cost-effective, beneficial procedure — as long as you've appropriately managed your expectations. While a thread lift isn't a replacement for a ...

Shortly after 7 a.m. one recent morning, Annette Padussis winced as Baltimore plastic surgeon Ricardo Rodriguez injected her face with an anesthetic in preparation for a “thread lift,” a new cosmetic ...

A polypropylene barbed suture material is now available to allow oculoplastic surgeons to perform minimally invasive brow lift procedures. The self-anchoring Contour Threads, distributed by Surgical ...

It’s hard to resist the pull of a thread lift. After all, the procedure is said to deliver something akin to a mini-face lift; it’s quick, relatively pain-free, and involves neither injections nor ...

Question: I’m in my 70’s and have a lot of sagging in my neck and lower face. I really don’t want the risk and downtime of an aggressive operation such as a facelift. The new thread lifts on the ...

Oprah Winfrey promoted the new barbed-suture facelift as a "one-hour lunch-break lift" and a "cutting-edge procedure with no cutting edges." Good Morning America called it "one of the hottest new ...

When it first came out in the late ’90s, the so-called “thread lift” (using surgical thread to lift sagging skin) was heralded as the kinder, gentler face-lift. But scary side effects, such as ...

Some patients going in for "fox eye" cosmetic procedures say they are being left with pain, scarring, and asymmetrical results. "Fox eye" thread lift procedures use barbed sutures to pull the skin ...

There are three main types of threads that can be used: polydioxanone (PDO), polylactic acid (PLA), and polycaprolactone (PCA). The first option developed — and still the most common choice today — is ...