Surgical neck lift or platysmaplasty – is a type of surgical manipulation performed to rejuvenate neck and chin area. This is an increasingly popular intervention, that helps to improve facial air significantly with a single procedure. Correction of saggy and wrinlked lower facial area can easily shave years off one’s look and improve the patient’s quality of life.
Platysma is a large muscle stretching virtually from clavicles to the middle segment of lower jaw. This muscle impacts neck and chin shape in a major way, and as it looses its elasticity and turgor due to aging the whole chin-neck area starts to deteriorate visually. Additionally this area tends to accumulate fat deposits and get wrinkled. These changes accumulate over time, and at certain point non-invasive cosmetic procedures can no longer be effective.
Oftentimes neck lift is performed simultaneously with other types of cosmetic interventions for maximal effects:
Successful neck-lift grants the following results:
