Enhancement: A Personal Quest for the Ideal

Standard face-lift techniques are excellent for the treat-ment of the jawline and neck. Treatment of the area between the lower eyelid and the corner of the mouth required the development of techniques in the interme-diate lamella of the face. Alternative techniques of sub-periosteal dissection by means of lower eyelid incisions were described with good aesthetic results but at the ex-pense of increased morbidity and complications. All these techniques were also two-dimensional manipulations of the soft tissues of the face. The author presents a different approach that he believes is close to the ideal in terms of safety, morbidity, and complications. Although midface rejuvenation may be performed alone, it is more commonly done as a component of total facial rejuvenation. The midface is approached by mean