Will Facelift Scars Be Visible?
A realistic guide to facelift scars: incision placement, what affects visibility, healing timeline, and care.
Where we place the surgical incision in facelift operations depends on which segment of the face we want to lift.
Our effort is always to hide the incision among the hair, or place it where it will be seen as little as possible.
For example, if we are doing a midface lift, the incision line is here, in front of the tragus—the prominent cartilage of the ear—and we come down so visibility is minimized.
In temple lift and forehead lift we place the entire incision inside the hair, about two centimeters behind the hairline, so it sits among the hair and no mark is visible.
So in temple lift or forehead lift we effectively have no visible incision—we do have one, but it is not seen.
