Isolated neck lifts

There are three things you can do surgically to imporve the neck. Liposuction is for the young patient with excellent skin elasticity and good muscle tone who just has some extra fat. The neck lift without ear scars is also for the patient with good skin elasticity, extra fat, but also has loose neck muscles and a more chin to chest look. The third treatment involves scars around the ears where the extra skin is removed in the person who does not have excellent skin elasticity. I have examples of each on my web site.

So it all depends on which of these you are, what is your surgeon's level of experience with each procedure, and what kind of a result you are expecting in order to be happy.

The typical neck lift procedure involves a one-inch incision underneath the neck and two one-half inch incisions behind the ears. Fat is removed both above and below the platysmal muscle. The platysma is tightened in the front through a platysmaplasty between the Adams apple and the chin. The incisions behind the ears are only one-half inch incisions to gain access for the liposuction cannula to remove fat at the angle of the jawline to improve the jaw and neck angle.