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Does face surgery lift skin under chin?

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drom77May 7, 2022

Hi I am thinking of getting ultherapy under my chin. However I was wondering, if you lift parts of the face, for instance through a lip lift, does this also cause subtle lifting of the skin under chin? Anatomically this makes sense to me, so I was wondering, because I have never seen anyone talk about that

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