Skin Tightening Laser for Turkey Neck?
I am 50 years old. About five years ago I shed all my excess weight (more than 75 lbs) perhaps a little too quickly. As a result I have a very mild "turkey" neck which no amount of stretching or exercise will address. My stomach got wrinkly too, but the neck is my first priority. Is Titan laser the way to go to address these problems?
Asked 35 months ago by
SJB in Redondo Beach, CA
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Laser neck lifting
Unfortunately, there isn't any non-surgical way to tighten the skin on the neck to any significant degree. At 50 years old and after massive weight loss, the elasticity of your skin is inadequate to shrink more than it already has. The excess can be removed in a cheek and neck lift with a beautiful result done by the right surgeon with a 2 week relatively painless recovery!
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Laser neck lift
Surgical neck lift is the most effective treatment of turkey neck with significant skin laxity. Although external application of laser may sound appealing, at this point the results are modest at best. An alternative would be a laser assisted liposuction, such as SmartLipo. The laser is passed in the subcutaneous tissue through tiny incisions. This procedure may offer more effective skin tightening for patients with mild to moderate skin laxity.
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The Titan Will Not Correct a Turkey Neck
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Necklifts, Not Laser Skin Treatments, Will Work For A Turkeyneck
As appealing as a laser is for tightening loose skin, a turkey neck problem poses a challenge beyond what heating up the skin can do. Laser and other skin tightening devices have their value in very mild skin excess problems like a 1/2 inch or so. A turkey neck for most patients consists of a skin excess problem that can be measured in a number of inches, often 3 or 4 inches of excess skin and fat. A simple comparison of inches improved will tell you that the results from a laser...
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Laser Neck Lift
While a nonsurgical laser skin tightening device alone may only minimally improve neck skin laxity, surgical treatment in concert with the use of a laser is a newer but excellent option to improve the neck's contour. In our practice, we use very small, concealed incisions to perform laser surgery to the neck. The turkey bands (platysma bands) are addressed; in addition, neck contouring is performed. There is no need to make longer incisions (as in a traditional...
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Laser is not suitable treatment for a "turkey neck".
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Lasers can improve the Turkey Neck but to a minimal degree
Lasers can improve the Turkey Neck but to a minimal degree. This is a good option for people that are not ready for surgery. The laser can tighten the skin, improve the wrinkles and decrease the aging that occurs with sun damage. One thing to consider that it is better to be safe than sorry in the neck. The neck skin is thinner and has more potential for scarring and other healing issues.
So being conservative is vital in the neck area. But to definitely treat the neck a traditional neck...
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Titan laser will not correct the turkey neck
No externally applied laser will correct neck laxity called the turkey neck which occurs after weight loss or with aging. If you have "bands" under the chin in the turkey neck, surgical nect lift is required to correct the banding.
Skin tightening machines like Thermage, Refirme, Titan and others have been very disappointing in my expoerience over the past 6 years.
When using these technologies, even at high power settings I always have to show the patients before and after...
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Neck tightening with Laser
We do a lot of skin tightening by laser in our office, mostly on the face and neck. We do also work on the arms, abdomen and breasts. I think that for people with mild to moderate laxity in the mentioned areas, skin tightening via laser can give nice improvements with a series of treatments. However, when there is more than moderate laxity, aging and/or sagging, surgery is the way to go and will give you more bang for your buck so to speak. And this is something that you should discuss...
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Turkey Neck Treatments
Aging or weight loss can cause loose skin under the neck. Although Necklift surgery with Liposuction will almost always give you the best results, there is downtime and risks associated with these procedures that needs to fit your lifestyle.
The laser devices for skin tightenting work by either infrared light or radiofrequency. The infrared light devices such as Skin Tyte by Sciton can achieve great results very quickly. These devices usually require more than one treatment for optimal...
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Cutera's Titan for turkey neck
A lot of my patients ask how their "turkey neck" can be fixed with non-surgical options. The Titan has a great result to tighten the excess/loose skin, but any fatty tissue present will not be affected. Correct that with either weight loss with our HCG Diet -- lose up to 1 pound a day -- and/or mesotherapy under the neck will give you a vast improvement.
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Surgery is the best solution for turkey neck
People who lose as much weight as you do are very similar to what the beach looks like between tides. As the water (fat) goes away, it reveals everything that it covered. In the case of the neck, face, breasts, tummy, butt - all the areas are deflated and they hang.
Unfortunately, the ONLY RELIABLE solution which produces THE BEST COSMETIC RESULTS is surgery. A Face and Neck lift will remove all lower face and neck looseness and give you the look you want. Lasers on the other hand, will at...
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Laser Neck Tightening
Neck tightening is best acheived with a surgical approach to the platysma muscles and redundant skin. Some lasers will improve skin elasticity, but there are limitations to the amount of skin tightening. Fraxel laser, Candela Gentle Yag are both approaches to non-surgical skin tightening.
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