You're young, right? You are active and you feel great. So, it is especially disappointing to see sagging beginning to happen on your face. Standing in the mirror, you can't help but want to just gently lift your cheeks a couple of millimetres and see the difference.
"That's better", you think.
But what can you do to get that lift to stay that way? You oughtn't need a full surgical face lift just to get a few millimetres elevation, but there's no cream on Earth that can do this for you, so what are your options?

Contour threads are designed to fulfill this very need.

What are Contour threads?

Ever had skin stitches, after a laceration or an operation? Chances are your stitches were made of something very similar to Contour threads. Contour threads are made of polypropylene, a substance we've been using in skin sutures for many years. 
So, the Contour threads look like fine transparent fishing line, but fishing line into which a series of tiny notches have been cut, to create tiny barbs along the edge of the thread.
These notches or barbs are all oriented in one direction, so that the thread can slide easily through and under you skin in one direction easily, but grips and attaches to tissues when pulled in the other direction. 

How are they inserted?

Like almost any stitch, Contour threads are attached to a needle. As you might expect, local anaesthetic is injected under the skin, and when the treatment area is completely numb the Contour needle is inserted.
Insertion begins a little behind your hairline. Then some of the thread is passed under the deep connective tissue under your scalp, and this will be the anchor point to which your skin will be lifted. The thread is arranged like an upside-down "U", with the central bend providing the anchor and the two ends gripping and elevating your skin. Once the notched Contour thread is in place, your skin is lifted up along the Contour thread, and stays up.
Excess thread is removed, and the remaining thread sits entirely under your skin, providing elevation.
The threads are designed to stay in place forever.

How much elevation really occurs?

At first, when you see the result at the completion of the procedure, you'll think you look too elevated, and that we have lifted your skin too much. Experience shows, though, that we need to overcorrect like this at the time of the procedure in order to get the best long-term satisfaction.
You may stay "too elevated" for a few days, up to a couple of weeks. Slowly, though, the degree of elevation becomes more natural as you skin settles on the notched thread.
No skin is removed with Contour thread lifting. So, your skin must perforce continue to "drape" over your face as it always did, and so the elevation remains natural-looking.
Final degree of elevation varies from one patient to another, but the great majority of patients are satisfied with the significant but very natural degree of elevation they achieve.

How long does the elevation last?

Again, variable, but 2-5 years is quoted. Experience in Australia has been for just over a year., but it is expected that even after 2-5 years you will still have more elevation than you would have had if the threads had never been inserted. So, in this sense, you are better off for much longer, perhaps forever.