With Temporal Lyft, only the area being treated is numbed: a topical anesthetic first, then local numbing at the brow and temple. You stay awake, there's no general anesthesia putting you to sleep, and you drive yourself home afterwards. Dissolvable PDO threads are placed through a fine needle to lift the outer brow and temple, and the appointment takes about an hour.
Ask anything about the numbing, the treatment and recovery. Dr. Nangrani will tell you honestly whether Temporal Lyft will give you the lift you want, and what it would cost.
Local anesthesia numbs only the specific area being treated. General anesthesia is different: it uses medicine to make you unconscious for the whole procedure. Temporal Lyft uses local anesthesia only, so you're awake throughout.
Numbing starts with a topical anesthetic on the skin, followed by local numbing at the brow and temple where the threads will go. Once the area is numb, most patients feel pressure and tugging as each thread is placed, rather than pain.
Because you haven't had general anesthesia, you can drive yourself home afterwards.
Local anesthesia makes treatment comfortable for most people, but it isn't the same as feeling nothing, and it isn't right for everyone. If you're anxious about needles or about being awake, tell Dr. Nangrani at your consultation and she'll walk you through each step.
It's a small, deliberate change to the upper face. These are the four reasons people usually ask about it.
As the outer brow and temple soften, the eye area can start to look heavier. A few millimeters of lift at the brow and temple opens it up again. The realistic result is that you look rested, not different.
Threads lift the brow by a few millimeters, not centimeters. They don't have the power to over-tighten a face the way surgery can, so done well, nobody can point to what you had done.
Temporal Lyft takes about an hour in our office and you drive yourself home. Expect some tightness and mild swelling on the day, and possibly light bruising for a few days. Most patients are back to their normal routine within a day. If you have photos or an event coming up, allow a week or two for swelling to settle.
Threads suit mild to moderate sagging and reasonably good skin. Temporal Lyft is not a surgical brow lift and won't give a surgical result. If your sagging is past what threads can hold, Dr. Nangrani will tell you at the consultation.
Straight answers, before you book anything.
The area is numbed before anything is placed: a topical anesthetic first, then local numbing at the brow and temple. Most patients describe pressure and tugging during placement rather than pain. Tenderness for a few days afterwards is normal, as is mild swelling and occasional bruising.
About an hour in the office, start to finish, including numbing. You stay awake, and you can drive yourself home afterwards.
Minimal, but not none. Expect tightness and mild swelling on the day, and tenderness with possible light bruising for the first few days. Most patients are back to work and their normal routine within a day. Swelling settles over one to two weeks.
You see the lift before you leave. Over the next three to six months, collagen builds along each thread and firms the area. The threads dissolve within four to six months; the collagen they stimulate holds the result for up to two years in most patients. It is not permanent.
It depends on how many threads your brows and temples need and whether you treat other areas at the same time. Dr. Nangrani quotes your exact figure at the free consultation, before anything is booked, and Cherry and CareCredit financing is available.
About an hour in the office, start to finish.
Dr. Nangrani examines your brows, temples and skin, tells you honestly whether threads will do what you want, and maps the areas and the number of threads.
A topical anesthetic, then local numbing where the threads will go. Only that area is numbed, and you stay awake.
A fine needle carries each PDO thread beneath the skin. The needle comes out; the thread stays and grips the tissue.
The tissue is drawn into its new position and the threads hold it there. You see the change before you leave.
You drive yourself home with your aftercare instructions.
A realistic timeline. Healing varies from person to person.
Visible lift before you leave. Some tightness and mild swelling.
Tenderness and possible light bruising. Most patients are back to work and their normal routine.
Swelling settles. Skip strenuous exercise, saunas and steam, facials and facial massage, dental work, and sleeping face-down.
Any early tightness relaxes into a natural look while collagen builds along each thread.
Peak result. The threads dissolve; the collagen they leave behind holds the lift for up to two years in most patients.
Small puckers or dimples can appear in the first days while the tissue settles, and they generally resolve on their own. Keep big facial expressions modest for the first few days.
Dr. Nangrani would rather tell you no at the consultation than sell you a result that won't hold. If threads aren't the answer for your face, she'll say so and explain the alternatives.
Dr. Nangrani has practiced aesthetic and anti-aging medicine for over 15 years and has run Vedas Medical Spa on Research Forest Drive since 2011. She is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
She performs every thread lift herself. The depth of each thread, its direction and how many go in are what separate a lift that looks natural from one that doesn't, and she doesn't delegate that.
If Temporal Lyft will get you what you're after, she'll say so. If it won't, she'll tell you that too, and walk you through the alternatives.
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Temporal Lyft is a non-surgical lift for the brow and temple area, done under local anesthesia. Dissolvable PDO (polydioxanone) threads, the same material used in surgical sutures, are placed under the skin through a fine needle. They grip the tissue and lift it into a new position, and as they dissolve they stimulate collagen, which helps hold the result.
Yes. Only the brow and temple area is numbed, with a topical anesthetic and then local numbing, so you stay awake. There's no general anesthesia, and you can drive yourself home afterwards.
Local anesthesia numbs only the area being treated, and you stay awake. General anesthesia uses medicine to make you unconscious for the whole procedure. Temporal Lyft uses local anesthesia only.
No. There are no incisions and nothing to stitch. It is still a medical procedure, which is why it starts with an in-person consultation with Dr. Nangrani.
Plan on some tightness and mild swelling on the day of treatment and possibly light bruising for the first few days. Most patients are back to work and their normal routine within a day. If you have photos or an event coming up, allow a week or two for swelling to settle.
The threads dissolve within four to six months; the collagen they stimulate holds the result for up to two years in most patients. Skin quality, age and the number of threads all affect that, which is why you get a personal estimate at your consultation. It is not permanent, and many patients top up around the two-year mark.
For about two weeks: strenuous exercise, saunas and steam, facials and facial massage, dental procedures, and sleeping face-down. Keep big facial expressions modest for the first few days while the threads settle.
Filler adds volume; threads move tissue. If your temples have also lost volume, Dr. Nangrani may suggest combining the two. Many patients get the best result from threads to lift and filler to restore volume.
Dr. Chaitali Nangrani, a board-certified physician, performs every thread lift personally. She does not delegate the procedure.
Dr. Nangrani looks at your brows and temples, tells you honestly whether Temporal Lyft will give you the lift you want, and gives you your exact price before anything is booked. No obligation.
This page is for information only and does not constitute medical advice. Individual results vary; outcomes depend on skin quality, age, the area treated and the number of threads used. Temporal Lyft uses absorbable PDO threads placed under local numbing. Tenderness, swelling, bruising and temporary puckering or dimpling can occur, and results are not permanent. It is not a substitute for a surgical brow lift or facelift and is not appropriate for every patient. Dr. Chaitali Nangrani, MD is a board-certified physician; Vedas Medical Spa is a medical spa and not a plastic surgery practice. Candidacy is determined at an in-person consultation.
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