What Can You Do About My Sagging Neck?

Here’s the thing about necks — you can do all the anti-aging work you want on your face, but your neck is the real truth-teller. Here’s how we can align your neck with your youthful goals.

Your face is much like a calling card — it can speak volumes before you even say a word. So, you’ve been trying to ensure that the face you’re putting forward reflects the youthful vitality you feel inside. While we offer more tools than ever to meet that goal, it’s important that you don’t forget about your neck, which has a way of revealing the truth about your age.

If your chin-to-neck connection has become less defined and you’re dealing with falling folds of skin around your neck, the good news is that we’ve got you covered.

The team at Jonathan Zelken, MD, led by our namesake board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Zelken, takes pride in providing age-defying and long-lasting solutions for sagging and aging necks.

In this month’s blog post, we review the two ways in which we can bring your neck in line with your youthful face: NeckTite® or a neck lift.

Tightening and contouring your neck with NeckTite

Let’s start with our NeckTite technology, an offshoot of the highly successful Facetite® system.

At the heart of NeckTite is a radiofrequency-assisted liposuction (RFAL) system, a technique in which we combine two highly effective technologies to recontour and tighten your neck area.

For starters, liposuction is the gold standard for fat sculpting, whether around your belly or neck. In fact, liposuction is so good at what it does — removing fat — that it’s perennially ranked among the top cosmetic procedures in the United States.

With NeckTite, we take liposuction to the next level by delivering RF energy into the treatment areas to liquefy the fat first, making suctioning it much easier. This means there’s less disturbance in your treatment area as we don’t have to first loosen the fat for liposuction.

NeckTite not only allows us to easily remove fat that has migrated down under your chin and into your neck, the RF energy also encourages collagenesis and soft tissue contraction, which tightens the loose skin around your neck.

Another great benefit of our NeckTite system is that RF energy cauterizes your blood vessels during your treatment, which can reduce post-procedure bruising and minimize inflammation.

We feel that NeckTite is a superior fat sculpting tool that allows us to remove those rolls of fat that can develop around your neck, not to mention the submental area under your chin that can blur the definition between your face and neck.

So, between the fat reduction effect of liposuction and the tightening action of the RF thermal energy, we can reshape your neck, making it appear more youthful.

For a closer look at this procedure, click here to see our YouTube video (warning — it’s graphic).

Tackling loose skin with a neck lift

While we love our NeckTite system, it isn’t for everyone. Yes, NeckTite can tighten loose and aging skin, but it falls short if there are folds of loose skin gathering in rings around your neck.

When this occurs, the best path forward is a neck lift, a procedure in which Dr. Zelken removes the excess skin entirely. Of course, that’s not all he accomplishes; he can also remove or reposition muscles and fat in the area to make the overall effect more natural.

Typically, our clients include a neck lift as part of an overall facelift since our facelifts are entirely customizable to your goals.

To explore which treatment option is best for your aging neck, please contact our office in Newport Beach, California, at (949) 432-4730. You can also request a consultation using our online booking tool.