Objectives: Severe neck laxity represents a challenge for the aesthetic medicine. Aesthetic doctors usually don't master the surgical techniques required to effectively improve those critical patients; therefore they either 'quit' them, leaving their patients unhappy, or they try treating them, often with disappointing results.
Nefertiti btx helps moderate platysmal laxity. HA Jawline definition camouflages a bit of skin excess. Technologies, threads can help when the laxity is moderate, but cannot achieve the surgery's effectiveness. A step by step technique is shown with it's results and indications
Introduction: Remarkable improvements have been achieved in the field of aesthetic medicine;yet some patients' results are not satisfactory if using only cosmetic procedures. People with severe neck area laxity, are a challenge for aesthetic medicine.Trying to reach a decent result in those patients,physicians may overtreat or overfill,causing innatural and undesirable results.Purpose of this presentation is to show an easy and safe face and neck lift technique and it's results. To show how, in selected patients, face/neck surgery should be a better choice in order to achieve natural and lasting results
Materials / method: In our 11 years’ experience, we have treated about 2.000 patients aged from 38 to 75 YO, with our face-neck lift technique. Some of them were 'virgin', others had unsatisfactory results with cosmetic procedures, and seeking a surgical approach. We had a thorough follow up. Thanks to this experience, we can outline the pros and cons of each technique, the efficacy of them over time and - most important - the limits of result available from aesthetic medicine, technologies and surgery.
Results: Assessment is crucial when treating the neck area.Skin laxity,platysma involvement, jaw bone resorption, sub-mental fat:all of these should be accounted to understand whether a cosmetic procedure may give a proper result, or if surgery is advisable. Tighter skin,platysma band may benefit of injections. But severe sagging, relaxed skin, subcutaneous fat require surgery to have an effective and long lasting neck reshaping. Patients need a tailor-made approach:so the doctor should master all the different solutions possible, in order to give them the best result and avoiding unnatural appearance
Conclusion: Aesthetic medicine is doing huge leaps forward these years, yet there still are some limits in its efficacy, especially in the neck regions. Patients, struck by pounding advertising, may believe that an injection,a thread or a technology may solve all their problems. However, such believes can't be accepted in professionals. Doctors have to know exactly the limits and boundaries of each technique. Either Medicine or Surgery, it's supposed to be Aesthetic. Pushing their limits, creates dysmorphies:Bad advertising for all of us... Knowing their limits, and mastering both of them, creates beauty
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