Episode 17: Facelift — The SMAS, the Facial Nerve, and the Difference Between a Good Result and a Pulled Look

The most common aesthetic operation in the world — and the one where the difference between a natural result and a pulled look comes down to understanding which layer is doing the work.SMAS anatomy, retaining ligaments, facial nerve branches, deep plane vs. SMAS plication, platysmaplaasty, and the haematoma that must be evacuated before midnight. Episode 17 — facelift, from the anatomy of ageing to the vector that determines everything.