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The Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Kris Jenner's rumored facelift procedure is ‘risky' & ‘not done often' as surgery costs six figures, top doc claims
KRIS Jenner's rumored deep plane facelift will have been riskier but leave her looking youthful for years to come, a top New York surgeon has revealed. Kris, 69, had fans in a frenzy when she stepped out with a new face this month, looking decades younger. 5 5 5 The reality star's rep confirmed to Page Six she underwent aesthetic enhancements from New York plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Levine ahead of her 70th birthday. Although it has not been revealed exactly what she had done, many critics have suggested she underwent a deep plane facelift as opposed to a regular SMAS procedure. In an exclusive chat with The U.S. Sun, Dr. Norman Rowe, who did not do Kris's work but specializes in deep plane facelifts, explained the difference between the two surgeries. Dr. Rowe said he felt her previous work was "tasteful" and he could immediately tell she'd had a facelift when she stepped out recently - believed to be her second. But he praised Kris for maintaining her looks doing everything from using sun protection to Botox and lasering. He said, "Once you get one of those things done, it's not like you're one and done. It's a maintenance thing. "So she kept her face, you know, up. And she did well. And I think she looks good for her age. I like the result." Asked how much it would cost to have the procedure done, he said, "It depends on whether or not you're getting it in Cincinnati, Ohio, or Miami or New York or LA. I mean, it can range from, five figures to six figures. RISKY PROCEDURE "I do deep planes. I like a deep plane. I switched almost completely over to deep planes. "I just like the results better. It's more reliable. And, in my opinion, I think it lasts a little longer." Explaining the difference between a regular facelift and a deep plane facelift, he said, "Below our skin and below the fat, there's a muscle layer, and it's called the superficial musculoaponeurotic system, or SMAS, we call it for short. "When you do a facelift, you cut out a little sliver of that SMAS and suture the two ends back together to tighten it up. And usually you cut out the sliver somewhere here along the jawline or in here, and you suture together and it pulls it tighter. "So if you think, all right, so that's one way to do it, cut out a section of it. "Another way to do it is make an incision. You get underneath the SMAS, you lift up the muscle and then you pull it. "Imagine if you have a carpet in your house and it has a bubble in it, a wrinkle. There are two ways you could take care of it. You could go along and cut out that wrinkle and then take [that] thread and suture the opening back up. Or you could go to the end of the carpet at the edge of the room and pull the carpet taut. "That's basically the difference between a SMAS and a deep plane. "A SMAS takes out that extra piece by cutting it out directly and suturing together, whereas the deep plane goes to the edge of the muscle, which is right around here in the neck, in the ear. The U.S. Sun asked Dr. Rowe about the advantages of choosing a deep plane procedure over a regular facelift. "In my opinion, I think a deep plane lasts a little bit longer," he said. NERVE DAMAGE "You get a little bit more of a tightening of the muscles when you pull the whole carpet. The dissection is deeper, is further underneath the muscle." He explained not as many people are trained to carry out deep plane facelifts and they can carry risks. "I think, honestly, still, the majority of people out there doing facelifts are probably doing SMAS. It's still kind of like the go-to technique. "It ultimately depends on the surgeon's comfort in doing that deep plane to that point. I'll be honest, it is a little bit more risky than, say, a SMAS. "The nerves that give us our movement in our face to give us our smile, our grimace, and things like that, all of our muscles, the nerves are underneath the muscle. "And so if you're lifting up that muscle to pull that muscle taut, then you can injure those nerves. So there's a little bit [of] risk of that. But again, if you know what you're doing. "In most residency programs, people just aren't doing deep planes because it's a little bit riskier. And so they don't do them. And so residents learn SMAS and they go out and then they do [them] because they weren't trained in deep planes." Dr. Rowe explains there are different varieties of the deep plane facelift from the subtle to the more aggressive, and it depends on the person. "The only way to know [what Kris had done] is to look at her five or 10 years from now," he said. "If she still looks good, it's probably a deep plane … if she starts to show little signs of aging. Probably wasn't. The Kardashian matriarch began her journey with plastic surgery when she got breast implants in the 1980s after giving birth to her first four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian. She has continued her cosmetic upkeep and revealed that she's gotten Botox and fillers over the years. Explaining the deep plane procedure, Dr. Rowe continued, "Most people do it under general anesthesia. It's a little bit too much to do under twilight, a facelift. "And again, when we talk about a facelift, a facelift generally includes a neck lift. So we call it fan face and neck lift. "The incision is placed in the hairline, and by the temple, it goes in front of the ear and then behind the ear. So it kind of looks like a J. "The surgery takes somewhere around two and a half to three hours, generally for a face and a neck lift. "Sometimes I'll put an additional incision in underneath their chin in order to tighten up the muscles of the neck." "Recovery? It depends on if someone gets something else done. "A lot of times people will couple that with eyelid surgery, a brow lift, sometimes we'll laser. "I won't be super aggressive when I laser because you don't want to injure the skin any more than or traumatize the skin, any more than it's already been traumatized by surgery." SURGERY AGE Dr. Rowe explained Kris would have been able to start wearing makeup three or four days after the surgery but may still have had some bruising. "You can walk around. I probably wouldn't plan on any social events for a couple of weeks after the surgery. I wouldn't get it done three weeks before a wedding." He revealed there can be complications including nerve injury but it is "rare". "There are three main complications. There's a nerve injury, the incision opening up, and then also immediate post-operative bleeding, which if there is bleeding, then within the first eight hours, then you go back and you stop it. "That's not a permanently disfiguring complication, whereas a nerve injury, maybe. And an incision opening up behind the ear and a wide scar, maybe." He said he would not do a facelift for anyone in their 20s, but he has seen women in their 30s in need of surgery if they have not maintained their looks. "What's the perfect age? When you need it. I see 30 or I see 35 year olds who need a facelift, and I see 65 year olds who need a facelift," he said. "I see 35 year olds who don't need it, and I see 65 who don't need it. So it depends on your body, your lifestyle, how much sun you got, what you've done to maintain your skin, what have you done in the past? "It's like a car. If you take care of your car, your car will get 100,000 miles on. If you beat the heck out of it, you'll be done after 20,000 miles. "So it's the same thing with your body and your face. "If you take care of yourself, you might push off the need for a facelift. And then when you do need it, you're more likely to say, okay, fine, let's do it. "Whereas if you don't take care of it, you're definitely going to need it. And whether you agree to it or not, you know, that's another thing." He added, "What's the youngest I've done … 37. She never set foot into a plastic surgeon's office. She actually lost some weight. And so she needed a facelift. "And we see that now with the Ozempic phase, people are losing weight, and they come in at a younger age who need facelifts and things like that." 5
Daily Mail
11-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Internet is calling New York man's facelift one of the best ever performed … what do YOU think?
A 70-year-old man seems to have reversed time after a series of surgeries took decades off his face - and his plastic surgeon is now revealing what he had done. Dr Ramtin Kassir, a triple board-certified plastic surgeon recently shared the results of a facelift he performed on the unnamed elderly man. According to the New York City-based surgeon, the patient disliked his tired and aged face and wanted a refreshed and rejuvenated look. So, he underwent a series of facial surgeries that have him now looking like an entirely different man, as viewers say this is the 'best male face-lift' they have ever seen. Dr Kassir revealed that his patient's beautification process was comprised of nearly a dozen different procedures, including a face, neck, and eyelid lift and fat transfer. Priced between $20,000 to $80,000 all together, these procedures can give a person natural looking facial results that do not look overdone. Dr Norman Rowe, a board certified plastic surgeon who was not involved in the procedure, told a revision deep plane face and neck lift is a longer lasting facelift that typically results in a more natural looking appearance than a regular one. Dr Kassir said the man had come to him after he 'had a lot of weight loss,' which left him with excess skin on and around his face - prompting the need for the multiple procedures. All of the surgeries included: a revision deep plane face and neck lift, revision upper and lower blepharoplasty, endoscopic forehead and brow lift, septorhinoplasty, CO2 laser resurfacing, fat transfer to face and chin augmentation. A revision upper and lower blepharoplasty - eyelid surgery - involves removing and repositioning any excess fat around the eyelid. This can help restore symmetry and balance to the eyes, as well as give them a more lifted, wider and more open appearance. A septorhinoplasty is an operation that reshapes the nose, as well as straightens a deviated septum - which can make it hard to breathe. Not only does it help with function, but it can make the nostrils, and nose as a whole, have a more uniformed look. Dr Rowe said: 'Our nose is usually the first thing people see about us in our face. Therefore, crooked or too large or too small of a nose is quite noticeable. 'A rhinoplasty can change the shape, size and appearance in the nose to dramatically improve someone's outlook and self-confidence.' Additionally, the patient also underwent a revision deep plane face and neck lift to make his overall look become more youthful. Dr Rowe told 'There are two ways to do a face and neck lift. They both involve tightening the muscle of the face. This muscle is called the sub musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS). 'The doctor can either resect a portion of the muscle and sew it together tighter or in the case of a deep plane facelift, go underneath the muscle and pull it tighter from the edges, much the same way as pulling out a wrinkle in a carpet.' A deep plane facelift leaves the skin firmer, smooths wrinkles away and contours the jawline, which gives the face a more youthful appearance. As compared to a regular facelift, a deep plane facelift provides better results as it focuses on deeper facial tissues that can provide a more natural look without a 'pulled' or 'tight' appearance. Similarly, an endoscopic brow lift lifts the forehead and eyebrows using small incisions in the scalp. While a chin augmentation focuses on improving the shape, size, and/or projection of the chin by either surgically inserting implants or advancing the chin bone. Dr Rowe explained: 'The chin and the nose are the two structures that project from the face. 'They go hand in hand and in a lot of instances, in order to improve the appearance of the face, not only does a rhinoplasty have to be performed but a chin augmentation at the same time if the chin is too small.' A less invasive procedure the man had was a CO2 laser resurfacing, which focuses on the layers of skin rather than pulling any part of the face up. Dr Rowe told the website: 'Our skin is made up of two layers - a superficial layer and a deep layer. CO2 laser resurfacing removes the upper layer while leaving the lower layer intact. 'A new upper layer grows back with less wrinkles and a more refreshed look.' While many of these surgeries involve removing excess skin, Dr Rowe explained it's necessary for some fat to be added back to give the face a youthful look - prompting a fat transfer to face procedure , which was also done by Dr Kassir in this case. Dr Rowe told the website: 'There's a reason it's called baby fat, fat makes us look young. In some instances as we age we lose fat, and it needs to be replaced in order to maintain a youthful appearance. 'To do this, fat is removed from one part of the body via liposuction and placed in the area that's needed to improve the appearance.' Typically, these procedures would take anywhere between one to six months to completely heal and for results to appear. However in this case, Dr Kassir was able to showcase his work two weeks after the elderly man went under the knife. And Dr Kassir's fans have since been left in complete awe of his 'natural looking results,' claiming that the man 'looks years younger.' Some also claimed that the patient looks 'almost like a totally different man' and that he 'looks refreshed, not overdone' - fulfilling his desire.
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Hollywood plastic surgeons reveal which celebrities had Met Gala work... and the star who 'went a bit overboard'
Extravagant outfits were on full display at the Met Gala this week, but equally visible was celebrities' obsession with cosmetic 'tweakments' and surgeries. 'As the Met Gala continues to be a global barometer for beauty and style, it's clear that facial aesthetics are becoming just as influential as fashion on the red carpet,' said Dr. Norman Rowe, a celebrity-favorite plastic surgeon in New York.
