Had a full face and neck lift over a year ago. I think my neck looks horrible. It’s not tight enough and I was left with these white patches. I’ve been back to my surgeon multiple times and he says there is nothing he can do. Am I a candidate for a revision or is there something else I can do to make it look better… lasers maybe?
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February 19, 2025
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Jeffrey H. Spiegel, MDBoard Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
The things that need to be addressed are the central over-resection of fat and the exposed submandibular glands.
Assuming your plastic surgeon is comfortable working on submandibular glands, because many of us are not, one would want to correct the hollow in the midline under the chin by...
There looks to be a lot of excess skin that is sagging. The "dent" is a depression under the overhanging excess skin. If this is three years after a necklift, one wonders if the necklift was isolated or done with a facelift. It looks like it wasn't. At this point, it looks like a lower face...
Two different anatomically separated areas. No affect whatsoever.
Fat grafting does not cause scarring. If it didn't' persist, it just was absorbed from your cheeks.