Lidlift Kenneth D. Steinsapir, M.D.
Cosmetic, Facial & Eye Plastic Surgery

Open Forehead Lift

Forehead lift performed using a long incision that extends over the top of the head from one ear to the other. This procedure is also called the coronal forehead lift. The procedure is fast for the operating surgeon and effective. The endoscopic forehead lift by comparison takes longer to perform and is associated with a significant learning curve and requires specialized equipment. Consequently, a number of older surgeons never made the transition to the endoscopic forehead lift. The open forehead lift has a number of issues. First, the description of the surgery causes a certain degree of anxiety (“you’re going to cut me from where to where?”), there is permanent numbness on the top of the head following surgery. Hair loss along the edge of the coronal incision is common. The recovery time is also significant due to the length of the incision and the amount of blood loss associated with the surgery. In contrast, the endoscopic forehead lift has none of these problems and for this reason has become the preferred method of elevating the forehead.