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 ...

Sitting at his desk in his Rodeo Drive office, Harold Lancer, a dermatologist with one of the largest practices in the country (he has more than 30,000 patients in his database), makes a prophetic ...

A face thread lift is a minimally invasive cosmetic procedure that tightens the skin on the face. It is an alternative to a facelift. A cosmetic surgeon uses threads to pull up portions of the skin to ...

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 ...

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 ...