Neck Lift and Sagging Skin: Surgical Treatments to Repair Neck Skin

Excessive sagging of the neck skin is usually a result of a variety of factors including:

• Quality of skin
• Skin redundancy
• Laxity of the platysma muscle

Surgery, including a neck lift would improve the amount of skin redundancy and the laxity of the platysma neck muscles by sewing them along the midline.  This can usually be accomplished through a small incision under the chin and two small counterincisions in back of the ear.

Alternative treatments that address the skin will generally not recreate the neck line or improve the laxity of the platysma muscle.