What are my options to treat neck wings? (Photo)

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I have excess skin which looks like a wing at angles. Makes me feel old. What are my options?

Steve Laverson, MD, FACS · Answer

That "wing" is the medial (inner) edge of one side of your platysma muscle, which is bowstringing across your cervicomental angle (the angle between jaw and neck).  Although you appear thin, there is fat beneath that muscle contributing to the appearance.  Necklift surgery is the gold standard treatment and will restore youthful angles, contours, and if properly done remove that "wing" for life.  Other possible treatments are neuromodulator injection into the muscle (Botox, Xeomin, Dysport, or other) or less invasive treatments involving bands or sutures to suspend the muscle.

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