VF Lift – Vertical Facelift:
what the term means

Where VF Lift – Vertical Facelift matters on this site

VF Lift – Vertical Facelift is the lifting protocol most of the face pages on this site resolve to, so it is referred to by zone as well as by name.

Tightening in every direction is not lifting; I lay the energy along vertical lines because the face fell vertically.— Dr Sin Yong

• VF Lift – Vertical Facelift: the full protocol page on Volnewmer.
• VF Lift – Vertical Facelift for the jawline and jowls, the mid-face and the neck: the zone pages, each with its own vectors.
• Sagging face treatment and jowls and lower-face sagging: the concern pages that explain when lifting is the answer and when the heaviness is excess instead.
• Droopy, hooded eyelids: where VF Lift is chosen for a descended brow and FSX Laser for lax lid skin.
• Thermage vs Volnewmer and Volnewmer vs Ultherapy: the platform compared with the other two lifting classes.
• HIFU with VF Lift – Vertical Facelift: when the two are used together and in what order.

The protocol also has a body version, VF Lift – Vertical Figure Lift, which uses the same vertical-vector method on the abdomen, arms and thighs.

Not to be confused with

Three technologies lift the face without surgery, and VF Lift belongs to one of them. These are the terms it is mixed up with in enquiries.

• Thermage: the same class, monopolar radiofrequency at 6.78 MHz, on a different platform with cryogen cooling. VF Lift is a protocol on Volnewmer, which cools with water; the vectors are Dr Sin Yong's, not the machine's.
• HIFU and Ultherapy: focused ultrasound that heats small points at set depths. VF Lift uses no ultrasound of any kind, focused or otherwise.
• Ultraformer MPT: a focused ultrasound device. It is not the VF Lift platform and is not part of the protocol.
• Thread lift: sutures inserted under the skin to reposition tissue. Nothing is inserted in a VF Lift.
• Time Freeze Laser LCLR®: the laser protocol for a face heavy with excess rather than descent. The two are often sequenced, Time Freeze first.

A tightening treatment heats a field and lets the skin contract in every direction; the VF Lift lays the energy along vertical lines, which is the whole point of the name.

What decides whether VF Lift – Vertical Facelift is right for you

The assessment separates descent from excess, and both from heavy redundant skin. Dr Sin Yong examines in person and, where volume is in question, with ultrasound.

• Descent with reasonable skin quality, such as early jowls, a flattened mid-face or a brow that has dropped, is the indication.
• A face that is heavy because something was added or over-stimulated goes to Time Freeze Laser LCLR® first; lifting excess does not remove it.
• Heavy, redundant skin is referred to a plastic surgery specialist rather than treated with radiofrequency.
• A pacemaker or other implanted electronic device rules out radiofrequency; pregnancy, active infection or inflamed skin in the area mean waiting.
• Previous HIFU, threads or filler in the area are declared, because they change what the energy meets.

The result is a direction for the plan, not a promise about its size; what the protocol can and cannot do is set out on the protocol page and reviewed with you at each stage.