Are You A Good Candidate?
Ideal candidates for Endoscopic Facial Surgery are younger individuals with minimal to moderate amount of skin excess.   However, the procedures may be performed on any age group for the upper 2/3 of the face combined with the traditional open procedure for the lower portion of the face and neck if required.

Before deciding whether you are a good candidate for Endoscopic Facial Surgery, it a good idea to understand How Our Faces Age and what forces of aging are actually affecting them.

How Our Faces Age
The aging process of the human face generally affects all of the tissues of the face, including; the skin, fatty tissues, fibrous tissues, muscles, and bones.  Each person will have different combinations of these areas affected in varying degrees.

Frown lines, droopiness of the soft tissues due to the accumulation of fat, or saggy eye brows tend to be noticed and affect the face at the earlier stages of aging and may even appear earlier on in life before aging begins.  Skin sagginess due to excess skin, or wrinkles of the skin are generally two of the later signs of aging in a person's face.  These signs may be caused by any number of factors, including; environmental factors (gravity and sun damage), genetic inclinations (the loss or gain of fat and tissues) , muscle activity (frowning, squinting, etc), and nutritional factors.

|  Skin  |  Muscle Activity   |  Environmental Factors  |  Genetic Inclinations  |  Nutritional Factors  |

The Endoscopic Facial Surgery information found in this website has been provided by Nicanor G. Isse M.D., pioneer in Endoscopic Facial Surgery and founder of EPSES, the Endoscopic Plastic Surgery Educational Seminars.