You will, in my opinion, achieve your best result with a volume adjusting, volume replacing multivector facelift performed by a highly skilled surgeon than an inexpensive LifeStyle Lift performed by a novice or non board certified doctor.
I personally believe the LifeStyle Lift is particularly weak for the jowls, simply because the surgery doesn't go far enough in about an hour under local anesthesia to make a significant long term difference in the jowl area, particularly for heavier patients.
Minilifts are cheaper, but not better. They simply don't do enough, and don't do it with the many great techniques now available such as multivector, volume replacement, complete deep tissue rearrangement facelifts.
Almost any surgery can be performed under local anesthesia or with IV sedation in the tolerant patient. You can judge yourself how happy the LifeStyle Lift patients have been from the posts on this website and elsewhere on the internet.
To summarize the experience of the branded minilift patients I have seen in my office, they have had all the incisions they would have had from a facelift, except the minilift incisions were closed under tension (minimal undermining means you don't reach the target areas, and have to pull tighter to compensate), but the results didn't last.
We see many branded minilift patients in our office requesting further rejuvenation, correction of disfiguring scars around their ears, and reconstruction of unnatural appearing earlobes. Fortunately correction is usually possible. I just feel bad for the patients who paid for a minilift, had a disappointing result, and now have to pay for a reconstructive facelift. I feel even worse for patients who spent all their money on a branded minilift, had an unsatisfactory result, and are now stuck with that result.
These surgeries are completely elective. That means there is no urgency. It pays to do a little homework before this major step, rather than to have to search for "surgeons who can fix this."
