Eric K

Results aren't permanent and remaining hair is patchy

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Double Chin Lipo for 30 Year Old Male

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John, it depends on your priorities and facial/neck structure. In my case, I never had a strong jaw line even when I was a rail thin teenager. The neck lift definitely helped more than the lipo, yet the improvement wasn't as significant as for Robert T's neck lift. Still, I'm happy because I know that sewing the platsymal muscles together will prevent the neck bands that my dad has and by minimizing the sagging under the chin, will allow me to avoid a facelift later in life. The neck lift scar is definitely more noticeable -- it's about 1.5" under my chin and there are two 0.3" ovals on either sides of my jaw from the skin hooks where the beard hasn't grown back after a year. I already had a horizontal scar on the edge of my chin from a fall as a kid so another one wasn't a big deal. To make the scar and the ovals less noticeable, I might choose to have laser hair removal on the hair under my chin since it's harder to shave their anyway. If you do choose to go for a neck lift consultation, make certain it is a doctor who does specializes in male neck and facelifts. Female facelifts are a bit different because there's no concern about killing off the beard hair like there are for men. Avoid any doctor who uses iGlide or another thread-based neck lift as thread-based lifts won't provide a lasting benefit but do create a permanent foreign body problem.

Everyone supports correcting a cleft palate in kids, and that's plastic surgery. It would be great if kids didn't bully others for genetic features, but that's unlikely to change. Why wait for Otoplasty? Each year of bullying makes it more likely the kid will have a permanent insecurity.

Michelle, it is a good idea to do the neck lift separately because you want the surgeon to focus ONLY on doing a great job on the neck lift without having to rush to complete it or the other surgeries. Plus, the recovery will be easier if the rest of your body isn't also healing. It's really important that you sleep on your back for the first few days of recovery (so there isn't extra tension on one side of the sutures), and if you a side-sleeper like me that is hard enough on a regular night!

Robert T makes a great point -- you want a "platysmaplasty" where the neck lift muscle is cut and retied, not an iGuide necklift or a neck lift where the only scars are around the ears. Surgeons who are experts at facelifts are the best because the platysmaplasty is a key part of a facelift.

Are you considering a neck lift? I'm very happy with my results and the recovery is similar to chin lipo. (In fact, because there was a drain with the neck lift the bruising, swelling and hard lumps that I had with lipo were avoided by directing any fluid out of the drain.) If you've always been self-conscious about your double chin, as I was, then a neck lift is the best way to remove the extra chin and prevent the neck bands from forming in the future. Neck bands are the edges of the platsyma muscle, and that muscle is sewn together in a platsymaplasty (aka Neck lift).