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Smart lipo of chin/neck, platysmaplasty, fat transfer - Dr. Taylor
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Neck tightening and fat transfer
mombshellMarch 12, 2018
WORTH IT
About 2 years ago (at 44) I looked in the mirror one morning and saw this thing hanging from my chin. I swear it happened overnight (not really possible, but it seemed like it)...I realized my weak chin and aging neck were betraying me and swift action was going to be needed...lol. My face was hanging in there and I felt like with the right lighting, good makeup, Botox and fillers it would good for a bit. But my neck/chin were another story...so I started talking to my nurse injector (she does my Botox and fillers-lips/cheeks) about what noninvasive things could be done to help. Kybella was new and I was game given the lack of downtime. I did 3 or 4 rounds. Don’t quite remember. But it was a fortune, hurt like heck and while it got rid of some of the fat under my neck...it didn’t take care of the hanging thing (skin?platysma?fat?) under my chin...In fact I think it made the “thing” more obvious. Kybella works for some...it just wasn’t for me and my particular issue. Money down the drain...a lot of money...next despite all the negative reviews I decided to try ultherapy. It did nothing. In fact I think it made it worse...more money down the drain...
Ok...so now it was time to consider something more invasive...over the last year, I consulted with all the well known facial plastic surgeons in SA. All but one said I need a face lift...10 to 13k quotes. One didn’t even talk about my neck (my concern). One has a wife that works in the office that looks so plastic I would never let him touch my face....one told me to “get a new mirror” and “forget about it”. Mmmm. Ok. I didn’t want a full face lift. I have a full time demanding job and a 6 year old son and being out of commission for 2 weeks is not really an option. Neither is traveling to someone like Dr. H (probably what I will end up doing in a decade or so..)
So I pretty much gave up and decided to just “get a new mirror”...then by chance I came across an article on platysmaplasty and found Dr. Taylor’s website. His info about taking the less invasive approach interested me. So I decided to have a consult and learn more...
Ok...so now it was time to consider something more invasive...over the last year, I consulted with all the well known facial plastic surgeons in SA. All but one said I need a face lift...10 to 13k quotes. One didn’t even talk about my neck (my concern). One has a wife that works in the office that looks so plastic I would never let him touch my face....one told me to “get a new mirror” and “forget about it”. Mmmm. Ok. I didn’t want a full face lift. I have a full time demanding job and a 6 year old son and being out of commission for 2 weeks is not really an option. Neither is traveling to someone like Dr. H (probably what I will end up doing in a decade or so..)
So I pretty much gave up and decided to just “get a new mirror”...then by chance I came across an article on platysmaplasty and found Dr. Taylor’s website. His info about taking the less invasive approach interested me. So I decided to have a consult and learn more...
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Dr. Taylor consult and moving forward
mombshellMarch 13, 2018
As soon as I met with Dr. Taylor I felt comfortable. He let me talk. Instead of telling me what I should do (oh I forgot to mention a plastic surgeon in San Antonio told me I have “distracting sub-mental glands” and suggested botoxing them. Which I did...2x...also botoxed my platysma bands. More moolah wasted).
Anywho, back to Dr. Taylor. He’s made sure he fully understood what my concerns were and offered up several solutions. One option was to do a chin incision and go in and smart lipo the area and tie up the platysma bands. He felt my skin had enough spring back under my chin that I wouldnt have to be concerned about too much loose skin. He also felt that adding some fat to my chin area would give me more of an appearance of a jaw line and chin (since I had no real profile)...he also felt if he did incisions at the ears that he could give me an even sharper jawline effect. Since I’ve never had a sharp jawline that wasn’t all that important to me...his explanation of the fat transfer intrigued me. I hadn’t done much research on it and no other doc had suggested. I researched the heck out of it like I did everything else. This site is a godsend for those of us who want to know the good , the bad? and the ugly!! :)
Dr. Taylor was a Lifestyle Lift doc for several years. It was one of the first things he shared with me and he also shared that he has done over 2,000 face lifts. I know that Lifestyle Lift shut down business and there are many on RS that has bad experiences with this company but based on the work I saw on Dr Taylor’s patients that his lovely assistant Maggie shared with me...I fully believe Dr. Taylor was one of the “good guys” in the whole LL mess. Some might also be concerned that his technique is not as aggressive as other plastic surgeons when it comes to face lifts. Again, I didn’t want aggressive or windswept. I wanted to fix a relatively small concern and improve my overall appearance/profile. The fact that he is incredibly experienced and a otalaryngologist as well gave me additional confidence that he would know how to help my neck area! But honestly the kindness, lack of pushiness, willingness to meet with me several times and answer every single one of my questions to my satisfaction is what ultimately helped me make the decision to move forward with him as my surgeon. I have always trusted my gut and it has served me quite well in life and business and my gut said that Dr. Taylor was my doc.
After all the conversations and a very fair price (one that I don’t want to publish as every case is different. But if you took all the money I wasted on kybella, Botox on the neck, ultherapy, firming lotions(total joke) the price I paid was far less...) I decided to move forward with booking a plastymaplasty, limited fat transfer to my chin area, and smart lipo of the neck for Friday, March 9. Week of spring break. Recovery time and time with my 6yo prince of a son.
Besides my husband and a few friends and people from work, I chose not to tell anyone I was having these procedure. For two years when I talked about it, literally everyone told me I was “crazy” and “you look fine”so I just didn’t want to hear it...my hubby is sweet and supportive and knows I’m vain so he went along with it even tho he didn’t think I needed it.
Like a good lil patient I followed every piece of direction I got to the letter. Stopped taking supplements like fish oil, no alcohol, and probably the worst for me...no caffeine the day before, of, or after...aaaahhhhh! Coffee is my BFF so that was hard. But I wanted to make sure I did everything right so I could get the best out of the work I was having him do.
Dr. Taylor’s does his procedures (only face) in his surgical suite in his office under local. I’m not gonna lie the idea of being semi conscious while having my neck worked on did scare me. But on the morning of my procedure I met Dr. Taylor’s very matter of fact nurse LeAnn at 7am and after clearly and concisely going over everything she gave me a cocktail of meds, a cozy recliner, and a blanket and sent me to lala land. The last thing I remembered as I drifted to sleep was that she said “I’ve worked with Dr Taylor for 27 years” and she stated she would not work for him if he wasn’t great. That gave me some comfort as I went out. I don’t remember a whole lot after that. I remember the RN helping me to the table, slight pressure on my abdomen during lipo, (that’s where the chin fat cane from) and being asked to lift up my chin a couple times. I was completely comfortable, had no pain, and was ready to head home when my hubby arrived.
The next 24 hours are kind of a blur. I can’t take any meds with Vicodin. Makes me hurl...bad. So I was limited to ultram and Tylenol for the pain.. that was more than enough as I really didn’t have much pain and I slept for hours and hours. The only really awful part Is the headwrap he uses for compression post surgery. It is like having your head in a vice grip. Absolutely miserable :( and hard to sleep in. I will attach a lovely photo of me in it on the ride home. Dr. T called to check on me that night but I was out cold and missed his call. I returned to the office the next morning to have him take a peek and redo the compression (torture helmet). He told me everything went well and he was surprised at the amount of scar tissue I had from kybella. Said it was somewhat difficult to work around. I had heard from only one other surgeon that kybella scars the tissue when it dissolves the fat not something that company really publishes ...I wonder why? I didn’t have the mindset to get a quick selfie but when he handed me the mirror before rewrapping I already knew it was exactly what I needed and that the improvement was going to be just as I hoped, he explained, and I expected!!
I returned in day 3, March 12 to get the vice off my head and I finally got a good look before being wrapped with tape. I’m bruised and swollen but so pleased so far!!! I will attach pics of my progress from here on out and will try to update beyond a month or so as I found on RS most people move on with their lives and stop posting. And I found very few that had only platysmaplasty (no ear incisions) especially in their 40s. So hopefully this info helps someone out there!!
Anywho, back to Dr. Taylor. He’s made sure he fully understood what my concerns were and offered up several solutions. One option was to do a chin incision and go in and smart lipo the area and tie up the platysma bands. He felt my skin had enough spring back under my chin that I wouldnt have to be concerned about too much loose skin. He also felt that adding some fat to my chin area would give me more of an appearance of a jaw line and chin (since I had no real profile)...he also felt if he did incisions at the ears that he could give me an even sharper jawline effect. Since I’ve never had a sharp jawline that wasn’t all that important to me...his explanation of the fat transfer intrigued me. I hadn’t done much research on it and no other doc had suggested. I researched the heck out of it like I did everything else. This site is a godsend for those of us who want to know the good , the bad? and the ugly!! :)
Dr. Taylor was a Lifestyle Lift doc for several years. It was one of the first things he shared with me and he also shared that he has done over 2,000 face lifts. I know that Lifestyle Lift shut down business and there are many on RS that has bad experiences with this company but based on the work I saw on Dr Taylor’s patients that his lovely assistant Maggie shared with me...I fully believe Dr. Taylor was one of the “good guys” in the whole LL mess. Some might also be concerned that his technique is not as aggressive as other plastic surgeons when it comes to face lifts. Again, I didn’t want aggressive or windswept. I wanted to fix a relatively small concern and improve my overall appearance/profile. The fact that he is incredibly experienced and a otalaryngologist as well gave me additional confidence that he would know how to help my neck area! But honestly the kindness, lack of pushiness, willingness to meet with me several times and answer every single one of my questions to my satisfaction is what ultimately helped me make the decision to move forward with him as my surgeon. I have always trusted my gut and it has served me quite well in life and business and my gut said that Dr. Taylor was my doc.
After all the conversations and a very fair price (one that I don’t want to publish as every case is different. But if you took all the money I wasted on kybella, Botox on the neck, ultherapy, firming lotions(total joke) the price I paid was far less...) I decided to move forward with booking a plastymaplasty, limited fat transfer to my chin area, and smart lipo of the neck for Friday, March 9. Week of spring break. Recovery time and time with my 6yo prince of a son.
Besides my husband and a few friends and people from work, I chose not to tell anyone I was having these procedure. For two years when I talked about it, literally everyone told me I was “crazy” and “you look fine”so I just didn’t want to hear it...my hubby is sweet and supportive and knows I’m vain so he went along with it even tho he didn’t think I needed it.
Like a good lil patient I followed every piece of direction I got to the letter. Stopped taking supplements like fish oil, no alcohol, and probably the worst for me...no caffeine the day before, of, or after...aaaahhhhh! Coffee is my BFF so that was hard. But I wanted to make sure I did everything right so I could get the best out of the work I was having him do.
Dr. Taylor’s does his procedures (only face) in his surgical suite in his office under local. I’m not gonna lie the idea of being semi conscious while having my neck worked on did scare me. But on the morning of my procedure I met Dr. Taylor’s very matter of fact nurse LeAnn at 7am and after clearly and concisely going over everything she gave me a cocktail of meds, a cozy recliner, and a blanket and sent me to lala land. The last thing I remembered as I drifted to sleep was that she said “I’ve worked with Dr Taylor for 27 years” and she stated she would not work for him if he wasn’t great. That gave me some comfort as I went out. I don’t remember a whole lot after that. I remember the RN helping me to the table, slight pressure on my abdomen during lipo, (that’s where the chin fat cane from) and being asked to lift up my chin a couple times. I was completely comfortable, had no pain, and was ready to head home when my hubby arrived.
The next 24 hours are kind of a blur. I can’t take any meds with Vicodin. Makes me hurl...bad. So I was limited to ultram and Tylenol for the pain.. that was more than enough as I really didn’t have much pain and I slept for hours and hours. The only really awful part Is the headwrap he uses for compression post surgery. It is like having your head in a vice grip. Absolutely miserable :( and hard to sleep in. I will attach a lovely photo of me in it on the ride home. Dr. T called to check on me that night but I was out cold and missed his call. I returned to the office the next morning to have him take a peek and redo the compression (torture helmet). He told me everything went well and he was surprised at the amount of scar tissue I had from kybella. Said it was somewhat difficult to work around. I had heard from only one other surgeon that kybella scars the tissue when it dissolves the fat not something that company really publishes ...I wonder why? I didn’t have the mindset to get a quick selfie but when he handed me the mirror before rewrapping I already knew it was exactly what I needed and that the improvement was going to be just as I hoped, he explained, and I expected!!
I returned in day 3, March 12 to get the vice off my head and I finally got a good look before being wrapped with tape. I’m bruised and swollen but so pleased so far!!! I will attach pics of my progress from here on out and will try to update beyond a month or so as I found on RS most people move on with their lives and stop posting. And I found very few that had only platysmaplasty (no ear incisions) especially in their 40s. So hopefully this info helps someone out there!!
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