janelane wrote:

The barbed suture lift, nicknamed the thread lift, is a quick outpatient procedure in which doctors thread serrated plastic sutures through the fatty layer beneath the face and use them to hoist sagging tissue. The idea is to pull the skin taut, so the face looks smoother and more youthful.

Egads!!! Check out the graphic!!!

-janelane

Well, I'm sold. I think the part of the serrated plastic sutures is what sells me on it.

Ech.

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