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{{Short description|Marketed name: either a multi-barb PDO product or a branded surgical lift}} | {{Short description|Marketed name: either a multi-barb PDO product or a branded surgical lift}} | ||
{{Infobox term | {{Infobox term | ||
| image = Facial muscles.jpg | |||
| caption = Facial musculature (Commons). “9D” is a branded integer — thread barb-count or one protocol, not a surgical type. | |||
| alt = Facial muscles | |||
| name = 9D facelift | | name = 9D facelift | ||
| also = 9D lift, 9D thread lift, 9D Butterfly Wing Lift | | also = 9D lift, 9D thread lift, 9D Butterfly Wing Lift | ||
| field = Medicine | | field = Medicine | ||
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'''9D facelift''' is a '''trade name''', not a CPT code. In 2026 it points at least two different operations. This | '''9D facelift''' is a '''trade name''', not a CPT code. In 2026 it points at least two different operations. This page records both so a screenshot of “9D” is not assumed to be one hospital procedure. | ||
== Use 1: barbed-thread marketing == | == Use 1: barbed-thread marketing == | ||
Thread vendors number the '''rows of barbs''' around a filament: 4D, 6D, 8D, 9D. A patent family for “six-dimensional” and “eight-dimensional” barbed PDO/PCL sutures treats the integer as how many longitudinal rows of barbs cut or molded on the suture — more purchase points, not nine anatomical planes.<ref name="wo">{{cite web |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2021050757A1/en |title=Six-dimensional barbed surgical thread |website=Google Patents |date=10 September 2020 |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> Clinics in Singapore and elsewhere sell a “9D Face Lift” as a non-surgical [[cog thread]] package: long barbed sutures for midface and jaw, explicitly not short [[mono thread]]s and not “liquid PDO.”<ref name="ads">{{cite web |url=https://www.a-d-s-clinic.com/aesthetic-services/thread-lift/ |title=9D Face Lift |website=A.D.S Clinic |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> | Thread vendors number the '''rows of barbs''' around a filament: 4D, 6D, 8D, 9D. A patent family for “six-dimensional” and “eight-dimensional” barbed PDO/PCL sutures treats the integer as how many longitudinal rows of barbs cut or molded on the suture — more purchase points, not nine anatomical planes.<ref name="wo">{{cite web |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2021050757A1/en |title=Six-dimensional barbed surgical thread |website=Google Patents |date=10 September 2020 |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> Clinics in Singapore and elsewhere sell a “9D Face Lift” as a non-surgical [[cog thread]] package: long barbed sutures for midface and jaw, explicitly not short [[mono thread]]s and not “liquid PDO.”<ref name="ads">{{cite web |url=https://www.a-d-s-clinic.com/aesthetic-services/thread-lift/ |title=9D Face Lift |website=A.D.S Clinic |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> Some clinic copy (“9D Butterfly Wing Lift” and similar) claims nine depths from epidermis to SMAS. That numbering is marketing, not a dissection atlas. | ||
A package labeled 9D still has a polymer, a barb geometry, a plane, a suture count, and a vector — or, in the surgical use below, a named lift. The integer is not the result. | |||
== Use 2: branded surgical system == | == Use 2: branded surgical system == | ||
Separately, Shanghai surgeon Xiao Zhongye markets a “9D Facelift / 9D Structural Lift” as a '''layered surgical''' plan (SMAS, retaining ligaments, nasolabial and oral commissure release) and states it is '''not''' a thread lift and not a skin-only pull.<ref name="xiao">{{cite web |url=https://www.drxiao9d.com/blog/what-is-9d-facelift |title=What Is 9D Facelift? |website=drxiao9d.com |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> That is closer to a personal [[deep plane facelift]] / ligament-based protocol with a trademark than to PDO. | Separately, Shanghai surgeon Xiao Zhongye markets a “9D Facelift / 9D Structural Lift” as a '''layered surgical''' plan (SMAS, retaining ligaments, nasolabial and oral commissure release) and states it is '''not''' a thread lift and not a skin-only pull.<ref name="xiao">{{cite web |url=https://www.drxiao9d.com/blog/what-is-9d-facelift |title=What Is 9D Facelift? |website=drxiao9d.com |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> That is closer to a personal [[deep plane facelift]] / ligament-based protocol with a trademark than to PDO. | ||
== | == This wiki's view == | ||
Ask which of the two uses you are being sold, then name the actual procedure: [[cog thread]], [[Silhouette Soft]], [[SMAS facelift]], [[deep plane facelift]], etc. See [[thread lift]] and [[facelift]]. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:56, 14 September 2026
 Facial musculature (Commons). “9D” is a branded integer — thread barb-count or one protocol, not a surgical type.
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| Field | Medicine |
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| Also known as | 9D lift, 9D thread lift, 9D Butterfly Wing Lift
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9D facelift is a trade name, not a CPT code. In 2026 it points at least two different operations. This page records both so a screenshot of “9D” is not assumed to be one hospital procedure.
Use 1: barbed-thread marketing
Thread vendors number the rows of barbs around a filament: 4D, 6D, 8D, 9D. A patent family for “six-dimensional” and “eight-dimensional” barbed PDO/PCL sutures treats the integer as how many longitudinal rows of barbs cut or molded on the suture — more purchase points, not nine anatomical planes.[1] Clinics in Singapore and elsewhere sell a “9D Face Lift” as a non-surgical cog thread package: long barbed sutures for midface and jaw, explicitly not short mono threads and not “liquid PDO.”[2] Some clinic copy (“9D Butterfly Wing Lift” and similar) claims nine depths from epidermis to SMAS. That numbering is marketing, not a dissection atlas.
A package labeled 9D still has a polymer, a barb geometry, a plane, a suture count, and a vector — or, in the surgical use below, a named lift. The integer is not the result.
Use 2: branded surgical system
Separately, Shanghai surgeon Xiao Zhongye markets a “9D Facelift / 9D Structural Lift” as a layered surgical plan (SMAS, retaining ligaments, nasolabial and oral commissure release) and states it is not a thread lift and not a skin-only pull.[3] That is closer to a personal deep plane facelift / ligament-based protocol with a trademark than to PDO.
This wiki's view
Ask which of the two uses you are being sold, then name the actual procedure: cog thread, Silhouette Soft, SMAS facelift, deep plane facelift, etc. See thread lift and facelift.
See also
References
- ↑ Six-dimensional barbed surgical thread. Google Patents. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ 9D Face Lift. A.D.S Clinic. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ What Is 9D Facelift?. drxiao9d.com. Retrieved 10 September 2026.