Who is a good candidate for a neck lift?
The best candidates for a neck lift include healthy men and women who are bothered by unwanted sagging of the neck and/or jawline. Most patients complain that they look prematurely aged due to excess laxity that drapes down below the jaw and/or undesirable fullness below the chin. These changes are usually the result of a combination of three different components that need consideration – loose skin, muscle sagging (termed platysmal banding), and excess fat. Loose skin is a result of the aging process, which causes excess laxity and gravitational pull. Muscle sagging reflects what the aging process does to the thin wide muscle sheet (the platysma) that extends all the way across the neck. Each side has a platysma muscle that normally does not meet in the middle and, as the aging process advances, the edge of the muscle on each side begins to sag downward leading to two visible bands the extend from just below the chin toward the collarbone. This contributes to what is often described a
