For patients who aren’t ready for a facelift or who may never want facial surgery, the Beverly Hills Necklift can give dramatic, rejuvenating results. As the skin loses its elasticity and starts to sag, the neck can suffer the most. Add an accumulation of fat underneath the jawline and laxity of the muscles in the floor of the mouth supporting the salivary glands and a full, sagging neck is the result.
The procedure is generally performed under intravenous sedation or general anesthesia. A small incision is made underneath the chin and incisions are made behind the ears. However, there are some patients with such extreme skin laxity that facelift incisions are also necessary. This is so because the skin has to be pulled superiorly on to the face as well as posteriorly behind the ears to accomplish the desired result. A small drain is usually placed over night and full recovery generally takes one week.