A facelift, or rhytidectomy, is a procedure designed to smooth loose skin and wrinkles on the face and neck, providing a firmer, fresher appearance and more pleasing contours. These improvements are surgically achieved by carefully placing incisions (usually hidden by the ears and hair), pulling facial skin up and back, and removing excess skin. Facelift surgery can be an effective means of improving or correcting the following conditions: jowls, loose skin on the cheeks, or a poorly-defined jawline deep wrinkles in the cheeks and a sagging of facial skin deep line running from the nose to the corner of the mouth neck problems such as loose skin, wrinkles, excess fat or vertical cords. While the above problems can be improved by facelifts, this surgery cannot correct conditions such as excess skin and fat in the eyelids or sagging eyebrows.