One of the cosmetic advantages of wearing a full bunnysuit is that some of us can convince ourselves we look like Pierce Brosnan or Halle Berry under that off-white Gore-Tex. Now, a plastic surgeon is using the same type of fiber for facelifts that, at the very least, can bring us closer to a more realistic upgraded visage without the facemask.

Gordon Sasaki, a plastic surgeon in Southern California, has developed a technique that uses Gore-Tex fabric to lift and tighten the cheeks on the face. Sasaki performed the surgery on a 60-year-old woman with a 19-year-old son. "I wanted to look like his mother and not his grandmother," Barbara Tucker told a local television station reporting on the novel medical procedure. Sasaki presented the technique at a June meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

The surgeon inserts the Gore-Tex fibers in two small incisions in the crease between the nose and outer lip. He then threads the fibers through the cheek fat to incisions under the eye and near the hairline. Moving the Gore-Tex, Sasaki lifts the cheek by raising the entire fat pad. Gore-Tex patches anchor the sutures. "You can see that her cheeks are back where they had been about 20 years ago," Sasaki says.

The 45-minute surgery costs $2500–$3500 and, you know, in this downturn it could do wonders for the worry lines on a fab manager's face.