Treatments for early jowls and double chin? (Photo)

Hi delirium80

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Dear delirium80,
Thanks for sharing your photos! They are helpful and illustrate the mild skin laxity most of us experience at 40.

The beginnings of facial skin laxity start at 30 years old when collagen skin repair diminishes and passive skin aging relaxes downward. The web of fibrous compartments in and under the skin loses stretches, separates, loses fat and elongates forming 5 growing “waves” of skin at points of attachment, developing:
• hooding along the eyes,
• lower eyelid / cheek junction or tear trough / nasojugal fold
• nasolabial fold,
• lateral mouth commissure and marionette folds,
• jowls and neck.
Without the opportunity for an in-person consultation, I would recommend that you:
1. Consult with a talented, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and his team regarding non-surgical and minimally invasive options. These may include:
2. CoolSculpting along the jawline and under the chin.
3. A Zein Obagi, MD, ZO Skin Health retinoid program and peels for skin tightening
4. Sculptra is a minimally invasive injection series of bio-stimulatory filler for face and neck skin tightening
5. Minimally invasive lipocontouring of the submalar jowl, jawline and under chin with or without ThermiTite skin tightening
6. Minimally invasive jowl lifting options such as Silhouette or EuroThread suspension sutures
I hope this is helpful. Stay well.
All the best!

In my opinion, you are a good candidate for either CoolSculpting or Kybella for the double chin issue. Both are FDA approved to help reduce moderate to severe fat under the chin, also known as submental fat. Both of these procedures work well though one involves cryolipolysis (freezing the fat) and the other is performed by multiple small injections of deoxycholic acid (Kybella) into the treatment area. Individuals who do not like needles prefer CoolSculpting. Either technique is safe, dependable, and similar in cost. Your submental fat pad is relatively small and you may only need one treatment with either of these techniques. Larger fat pads often require a series of 2-3 treatments.
For the jowl area, your best results would be a combination using a dermal filler along the jawline in what we refer to as the "pre-jowl sulcus" and the use of Kybella injected into the small fat pad of the jowl itself. Again, both dermal fillers and Kybella are safe and produce good results in individuals such as yourself.