Brow lift surgery is an excellent choice for those who have ptosis or drooping of the brow, and wish to achieve rejuvenation but also to improve vision that has been impaired by sagging skin.

We tend to favour the endoscopic technique rather than the classic open procedure, which involves a long coronal incision. Typically, an endoscopic forehead lift involves two to three short frontal scalp incisions, each less than an inch in length. An endoscope, which is a pencil-like camera device connected to a television monitor, is inserted through one of the incisions, allowing the surgeon to have a clear view of the muscles and tissues beneath the skin. Using another instrument inserted through a different incision, the forehead skin is lifted and the muscles and underlying tissues are released in order to lift the forehead and brow. The eyebrows are then lifted without removal of skin and secured into their higher position with the use of the Endotine forehead devices. These tacks are naturally dissolving, however this process will take about 6 months to do so. After this time your forehead will have “knitted” down to the new position and so the tacks will not be needed. Following surgery you will also notice that you have two drains in place, which are situated under the skin of the scalp and forehead. These are there to remove any fluid build, which occurs after the surgery. These are removed before your discharge. Dissolvable sutures are then used to close the small incision sites. Gauze and an elastic bandage is then usually applied to protect the wounds.

Many seek overall facial rejuvenation, and so it is a popular option to combine a brow lift with an overall facelift, blepharoplasty or neck lift.

In most cases brow lift patients can be treated as a day case, meaning the patient will be able to return home the same day post-surgery.

Although all patients have different healing times we find that most are fully healed at the 4-6 weeks mark.

Our surgeons are experts at performing the brow lift procedure due to their wealth of operating experience. This experience allows them to create results that are natural looking with no obvious signs of surgery.

Generally speaking a brow lift is a procedure we usually offer patients who are above the age of forty. However as long you are in good health there is no real upper age limit for being a good candidate.