It’s hard to resist the pull of a thread lift. After all, the procedure is said to deliver something akin to a mini-face lift; it’s quick, relatively pain-free, and involves neither injections nor ...

When it first came out in the late ’90s, the so-called “thread lift” (using surgical thread to lift sagging skin) was heralded as the kinder, gentler face-lift. But scary side effects, such as ...