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The aged face is graced by sagging skin and soft tissue characterised by a lax neck with bilateral vertical folds in front. The ageing stigmas consist of progressive upper cheek, lower eyelid-cheek sulcus, nasolabial folds, marionette deformity, jowls, anterior platysma bands and obtuse cervical-mental angle as seen in Fig. 4.1a–c.

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  1. Formerly Repatriation General Hospital Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Lawrence C. Y. Ho

  2. Private Practice, Auckland, New Zealand

    Michael F. Klaassen

  3. The University of Auckland, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Auckland, New Zealand

    Kumar Mithraratne

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Ho, L.C.Y., Klaassen, M.F., Mithraratne, K. (2018). Operative Procedures. In: The Congruent Facelift. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69090-2_4

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