Fig. 2.
The buccal cerclage suture. A. The key suture in the buccal cerclage technique. The suture is placed in a stair step pattern with 6 bites along the SMAS of the lower face and affixed to the immobile peri-parotid SMAS. B. The buccal cerclage suture is tightened lifting the SMAS in a vertical vector.