Greenville Neck Lift doctors

After a personal consultation, your surgeon will recommend treatments and options, discussing how each can help you.

Liposuction alone can improve chin definition, and is preferred when skin tone is good and the only issue is excess fat under the skin.

Necklift is a general procedure description which can include liposuction or direct trimming of fat under the skin.  It can also include removal of loose skin, removal of excessive platysma muscle or subplatysmal fat, re-suspending loose platysma, and other techniques.

Facelift will often include all the necklift elements and add cheek and jowl improvements.

Chin implant may be suggested if your natural chin is not very prominent.  It can be incorporated with other methods mentioned above.

So it is quite common to combine procedures, when a patient's anatomy suggests it. 

Hope this discussion helps. 

NashvilleFan:

We offer both surgery and non-surgical treatments. We don't promote the non-surgical methods as "lifts," but rather reserve that term for actual surgical lifts (facelift, necklift, browlift, etc.).

When we do surgery such as liposuction of the chin / neck (submental) region, we call it liposuction. However, we realize that the results can visibly enhance the neck and jawline. Some patients feel the results seem like a lift, but no actual lifting is done. We're glad the results are so favorable.

When we do non-ablative skin treatments patients notice firming or tightening of the skin of the neck, but no actual lifting is done. We don't call this a scarless necklift, because no actual surgical lift is done.

Ask your surgeon to explain what is actually being done to see if removal of loose skin and / or support of deep layers under the skin are actually being accomplished. Otherwise, the procedure may be a "what-appears-to-be-lift." Misnomers are commonly used to promote various procedures.

Lynn13

There is no such thing as laser or non-surgical neck lift, even though there are many claims. In my practice we have available a full range of laser resurfacing, non-ablative skin tightening, HA fillers, etc. in addition to standard and short-scar or limited facelifts. We offer specific procedures to patients based on each patient's needs or wants. Your age alone is not a determinate of what procedure will give you the best result.

We recommend neck lift for 3-dimensional improvement of facial and neck aging changes (loose skin, jowling, poor jawline definition, under-chin bands or folds, etc.). In your post, it does not sound like these are your issues, but I suspect you would be surprised that the procedure is less onerous than you imply.

We recommend non-surgical skin tightening for textural skin changes. Treatment of surface looseness can improve your appearance. Crepey skin is in this category. A series of laser and intense-pulsed light treatments, and periodic maintenance treatments, can give moderate improvement.

Both types of procedures may be useful for some patients. They do not achieve the same kinds of results: they can be complimentary. I suggest you seek other in-person consultations. The education should help you choose.

PS: Allow me to clarify one point. A "mini facelift" is a procedure to improve the cheeks without much done for the neck. A surgical neck treatment would either be a neck-lift (alone) or a part of a standard facelift.