Comparison of an Office-based Limited Facelift and Hospital-based Full Facelift

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient willing to randomly undergo either a limited facelift done in the office or afull facelift done in the hospital
• Patient willing and able to accept financial responsibilities of undergoing eithertype of facelift.
• Patient able to provide informed consent
• Between age 40-years-old and 85-years-old
• No history of bleeding disorder
• BMI <25
• Stable weight
• Does not have implanted cardiac device
• Minimal anxiety
• No history of smoking
• Stable, good health
• Normal blood pressure or well-controlled hypertension
• Surgeon believes patient could tolerate and safely undergo either a limited faceliftdone in the office or a full facelift done in the hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal to randomly undergo either a limited facelift done in the office or afull facelift done in the hospital
• Patient not willing or not able to accept financial responsibilities of undergoingeither type of facelift.
• Patient unable to provide informed consent
• Under age 40-years-old or over 85-years-old
• History of bleeding disorder
• BMI >25
• Unstable weight
• Has implanted cardiac device
• Significant anxiety
• History of smoking
• Significant active disease (e.g., dementia, cancer, chronic respiratory illness, heartdisease, etc.)
• Uncontrolled hypertension
• Surgeon believes patient could not tolerate or safely undergo either a limitedfacelift done in the office or a full facelift done in the hospital