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Ugly Skin Folds After Significant Weight Loss?
What alternative conservative treatment options should I consider before going for a neck lift to remove ugly skin folds after significant weight loss through exercise and diet? For someone who is still young and has mild hypertension, what options could be recommended?
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Non Surgical Options For Ugly Neck Skin Folds After Weight Loss
Thank you for your question.
Congratulations on your weight loss. Your skin may continue to tighten for a year so do not rush into anything.
Non surgcial methiods for skin tightening include:
Thermage
Titan
LuxIR Deep
Ulthera
And others
Understand that the best these non surgical methods can do is about 20% tightening and your results most likely will only be noticeable when looking carefully at before and after photos.Neck lift is the...
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Non surgical skin tightening options
Hello,
Thank you for the question. We (as plastic surgeons and the industry as a whole) have not yet come up with a non-invasive option to significantly tighten skin long term. There are a number of technologies that aim to do so with results that are less dramatic than surgery. Among these technologies Ulthera seems to be the highest rated among the consumers that have voted here on RealSelf. If you have significant skin and soft tissue laxity of the...
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Only surgery will help the stetched out neck after weight loss.
Although there are many claims to neck skin shrinkage with many Machines, it is only effective for minor excess and seems to work best if you can liposuction the neck as well.
The typical excess skin and usually relaxed platysma muscle after weight reduction is truely a surgical problem.
In addition, patients who have had bariatric surgery and lost great amounts of weight may need what we call the "double lift". There is so much loss of elasticity that the initial...
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Ugly skin after weight loss
This is exactly the situation where a neck lift would be invaluable in relieving the saggy excess neck skin. No other procedure will offer similar results to this.
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Neck lift with or without facelift for saggy neck skin
There is no way to answer your question without photos or a face to face examination. Unless the excess skin is minor in my experience the only way to treat it is to surgically remove the excess. If the excess skin is significant you would be wasting time and money on a non-surgical approach.
I hope you realize that this format of posting questions and receiving answers lacks the face to face direct communication required for you to make an informed decision regarding your surgery...
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Neck Lift after Weight Loss
If you have recently lost a significant amount of weight your skin may appear loose. It can take up to a year for the skin to tighten, so if the laxity is mild, doing nothing may be a good plan.
For severe laxity, or laxity that is persisting more than a year, the problem may be more than the skin being overstretched. With prolonged stretching, the skin may grow, and extra skin is not likely to disappear.
Many therapuetic options have emerged recently, but having a procedure done...
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