Patient Journey #11321
Description:
Patient Journey: Facial Rejuvenation
Age Range: 50-60
For years, this patient had been thinking about facial rejuvenation.
She had done her research, explored her options, and even anticipated traveling to Beverly Hills to find the right surgeon. She knew this was an important decision and wanted someone she could trust to deliver natural, elegant results.
Then, a referral led her to Dr. Raggio.
From the moment she met him, everything changed. She felt heard, understood, and confident that she had found the surgeon she had been searching for. Instead of continuing her search, she knew this was where she wanted to have her surgery.
When she came to us, she wasn’t focused on changing one feature. She wanted to refresh her entire face in a way that looked natural and balanced.
Her eyes were her biggest concern. She had become increasingly bothered by heavy upper eyelids that made her look tired, along with fullness beneath her lower eyelids that created persistent puffiness. She also noticed increasing laxity along her jawline and neck, a heavier brow, and deeper lines around her mouth. Rather than viewing these as separate issues, she recognized they were all contributing to the overall changes she was seeing.
During her consultation, we discussed how the most natural results often come from treating the face as a whole rather than addressing individual features in isolation. While her eyes initially brought her through our doors, a comprehensive facial analysis showed that restoring harmony would require rejuvenating the brow, eyes, midface, jawline, neck, and perioral region together.
Her treatment plan included:
• Preservation Extended Deep Plane Facelift
• Extended Deep Plane Neck Lift
• Upper Blepharoplasty
• Lower Blepharoplasty
• Brow Lift
• Full Face Fat Grafting
• Lip Lift
• CO₂ Laser Resurfacing
Each procedure played an important role. The facelift and neck lift restored youthful definition to her jawline and neck. Fat grafting replenished facial volume that had diminished over time. Her brow lift and upper and lower blepharoplasty refreshed the eye area, while the lip lift and CO₂ laser resurfacing refined the final details, improving facial balance and skin quality.
Today, her results reflect exactly what she hoped for when she first began researching facial rejuvenation years ago. She doesn’t look overdone or dramatically different. She simply looks refreshed, balanced, and naturally herself.
Sometimes the most important decision isn’t choosing a procedure. It’s choosing the surgeon you trust to guide you through the journey.
