Tonnard and Verpaele (both: plastic surgery, Gent U. Hospital, Belgium) offer facial aesthetic surgeons information and advice to help them maximize face-lift results while minimizing risks and complications. They discuss basic principles and rationale, patient selection, operative procedures, case examples of surgical plans and operative results, secondary and ancillary procedures, and problems and complications. Color photographs, and diagrams accompany the text. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Introduction: The History and Evolution of Rhytidectomy Chapter 1 Basic Principles and Rationale 31 Chapter 2 Patient Selection 55 Chapter 3 Operative Procedure: Clinical Case Presentation 69 Chapter 4 Case Examples: Surgical Plans and Operative Results 167 Chapter 5 Secondary and Ancillary Procedures 197 Chapter 6 Problems and Complications 267 Bibliography 279 Surgical Pearls 281 Index 283