How our face and silhouette are are the main determinants of your appearance. The neck, which is one of the most flexible and mobile parts of our face, can easily make you look older than you are.
Over time, with aging, deformations such as sagging, fat or wrinkles may begin to occur on your neck. This is actually quite normal. However, both your skin quality and lifestyle will sometimes age you earlier than usual. The first thing that comes to mind for such complaints is of course a neck lift.
What is Neck Lift?
Neck lift, or lower rhytidectomy, is to improve the signs of aging in the chin and neck with aesthetic surgery. It can be applied together with the face lift operation, or it can be applied alone if there is no dissatisfaction on the face.
This procedure, which is usually performed to eliminate the signs of aging and to obtain a younger appearance, can sometimes be applied only to young individuals with aesthetic concerns or to elderly people who have sagging or fat that prevents daily life.
There are some different options for neck lift application. In general terms, the following can be applied;
● _Removal of sagging skin (Cervicoplasty)
● _Changing or removing some of the muscles in the neck (Platysmaplasty)
● _Liposuction
What neck lift surgery can treat?
It is the duty of the neck lift to control many signs of aging on the neck skin with a surgery that will take 1-2 hours and to give the patient a younger and smoother appearance. It is possible not only to make you look like your younger self, but also to give you a new look that suits your face shape. Of course, during your consultation with the cosmetic surgeon, you should discuss the shape of your neck at the end of the surgery and decide together with the surgeon.
As a restorative surgery, neck lift does not change your natural appearance too much and does not prevent you from aging. In other words, although this surgery takes you back to old age, it is not possible to say that it is a completely permanent solution as it will not stop aging completely. However, with the correct care and doctor control after surgery, you can have a firm and lean neck for a long time.
Neck lift is a cosmetic surgery procedure and does not give the same results as other
non-surgical procedures. That’s why you need to find the most suitable treatment for you with your doctor in order to make your neck look the way you want.
Are you a good candidate for a neck lift?
It is very important to know in which situations you should consider neck lifting. Of course, if you have major complaints such as turkey wattle neck, excess fat, too much skin, folds and lines it is possible to take a step towards nick lifting.
What your doctor will consider before even deformation on the neck is your health condition. As with all other operations performed with anesthesia, you should be in good health and be able to maintain this in neck lift. The main conditions are consuming plenty of water, not being able to smoke, being able to control weight and of course not having a chronic disease such as diabetes, blood pressure or heart.
Another rule of thumb to be a good candidate is to know what you want. Although of course it will be determined by your doctor’s suggestions and instructions, you should have realistic, correct expectations from the surgery. Even before the consultation, it is important that you set your goal, even if a little.
How does the procedure work?
After the face examination and measurement at the end of the meeting with your surgeon, the treatment method is determined. The treatment determined by the joint decision of you and your surgeon varies from person to person and according to expectations.
Although there are different surgical methods, liposuction is mostly applied in general
complaints. To explain briefly, excess fat in the neck area is removed from the tiny incisions opened under the ears and under the chin, and the incisions are then stitched.
If there are excessive skin or sagging problems, alternative methods of removing and
replacing the muscles in the neck can be used.
What are the recovery steps?
You are likely to experience swelling and bruising after neck lift surgery. Afterwards, you need to wear a special neck-protecting garment for a certain period of time, and you should not bend or excessively move your neck for a certain period of time by following your doctor’s instructions.
If you follow the instructions of your doctor and follow the suggestions, it is possible to
complete this recovery process in the easiest and fastest way.
Generally, the wounds and bruises in the patient disappear after the first 4-5 days. But the tightness of the neck will be a little more than normal for a few months. In other words, it takes 2-4 weeks to return to normal life, but it will be 6 months before you see the full result of the operation.
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