Jowl Surgery; Dr. Khorasani is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon and otolaryngologist in New York City. He specializes in all aspects of cosmetic surgery of the face, including blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty, facelift, and neck lift.
Are you considering jowl surgery?
While there are many surgical and non-surgical options to reduce the appearance of jowls, Dr. Khorasani has found that jowl surgery is the most effective way to eliminate them completely. Jowl surgery, or submental lipectomy, is a surgical procedure to remove excess fat and skin from around the jawline and neck area.
Jowls can be caused by many factors including age, genetics, and weight loss. While jowls are most commonly seen in patients over 40 years old, they can also be observed in younger people. Jowls usually develop gradually and tend to worsen with time if left untreated. With jowl surgery surgery, Dr. Khorasani can help restore your youthful appearance by eliminating your jowls and reducing signs of aging around your jawline and neck area.
What should I expect during my consultation for jowl surgery?
During your consultation with Dr. Khorasani
Jowl surgery can have a great impact on the jawline, neck and overall appearance of the face. In many cases, this surgery can make you look ten years younger and give you a more youthful appearance.
Jowls are caused by sagging skin in the lower portion of your face. As we get older, our skin loses its elasticity and begins to sag and hang down. This can be due to genetics or lifestyle factors like diet, exercise, smoking etc.
Jowls can also be caused by a weak chin or prominent nasolabial folds (the folds between the nose and mouth). These factors combine to give the face an aged appearance.
There are several different surgical techniques that can be used to improve jowls. Jowl surgery involves removing excess skin from around the jawline and tightening the facial muscles in order to lift them up. The results will vary depending on what kind of procedure was performed, but most people report feeling happier with their appearance after treatment.
There are two types of jowl surgery: endoscopic brow lifts and open incisions through an incision inside your mouth (underneath where your teeth meet). With either type of surgery, there may be some scarring or changes in tone that occur due to healing time
As the skin loses its elasticity and collagen, the jowls and neck lose their shape. Jowl surgery is a unique procedure among facial cosmetic surgery procedures in that it seeks to restore the jawline to its youthful shape.
A jowl lift or neck lift involves tightening the muscles along the jawline and neck. Our surgeons often use liposuction to remove fat deposits around the jawline and neck. We also redrape the skin so that it appears tauter and smoother. If you’re concerned about sagging skin and loss of definition, talk to our board-certified plastic surgeons about jowl surgery.
Jowl surgery is a type of plastic surgery that improves the appearance of the jawline.
It can:
reduce excess skin and fat in the face
improve the appearance of sagging or drooping skin in the jawline area
improve definition between the chin and neck
Jowl surgery is also known as lower facelift, jaw tuck, jowl liposuction, or lower facial rejuvenation.
Cosmetic surgery is a type of plastic surgery that aims to improve appearance. It includes surgical and nonsurgical procedures that enhance and reshape structures of the body to improve appearance and confidence. Healthy individuals with a positive outlook and realistic expectations are appropriate candidates for cosmetic procedures. Plastic surgery is a personal choice and should be done for yourself, not to meet someone else’s expectations or to try to fit an ideal image.
Because it is elective, cosmetic surgery is usually not covered by health insurance. If the surgery is necessary for medical reasons, such as reconstruction after breast cancer or injury, health insurance may help pay for it.
Types of Plastic Surgery
What is The Best Procedure For Sagging Jowls?
The best procedure for sagging jowls depends on the severity of the problem, as well as your age and what you hope to achieve. In my practice I treat sagging jowls with a variety of nonsurgical and surgical procedures:
Non-surgical: Thermage or Titan can effectively tighten skin in the lower face. These treatments are best for patients in their late 30s to mid 50s who still have good skin elasticity.
Surgical: During a facelift, the jowls are tightened by pulling the skin and soft tissue back, and removing excess fat and skin. A facelift is effective for patients in their mid 50s to early 70s who have loose skin in the jowl area.
A mini-facelift is often an effective alternative to a traditional facelift, especially for younger patients who don’t feel they need a full facelift. A mini-facelift tightens and lifts tissue around the jawline without extending behind the ears into the hairline.
Hi and thanks for your question.
The best procedure for sagging jowls depends on several factors including what type of skin laxity you have, whether you need additional procedures and how much downtime you can afford.
So we always recommend having a consultation with a physician who is experienced in facial rejuvenation to help you decide which procedure is right for you.
There are many facial treatments to improve sagging jowls. However, the best treatment for you depends on the skin laxity that you have and what your goals are.
One of the best ways to improve sagging jowls is with a facelift. During a facelift, the surgeon will tighten the underlying muscles and reposition the skin for a more youthful look. This is often done in conjunction with fat grafting to help restore volume lost with aging.
While surgery may sound intimidating, it is usually very safe and effective when performed by an experienced facial plastic surgeon. The procedure itself can take several hours and is typically done under general anesthesia or twilight sedation. Most patients return to work in approximately one week after their surgery, although recovery times vary from patient to patient.
At Skin Care Physicians, we use a technique called the SMAS facelift which addresses both muscle and skin laxity along with fat grafting for natural results that last for years. In fact, our patients often choose to have their facelifts performed by our surgeons because they get superior results compared to those achieved elsewhere.
Sagging jowls is a very common complaint among women and men over the age of 40. The jawline is one of the first areas to show signs of aging, and patients become more concerned with it as they get older. Luckily, there are several different procedures that can be used to correct sagging jowls depending on the extent of the problem.
If the problem is minor and you do not want to undergo surgery, filler injections can be used to restore some volume in the lower region of your face. The filler will lift up these sagging tissues and re-contour them so they look more youthful. This procedure has been proven to have a long-lasting effect, between 8 months and 1 year after a single treatment.
More severe cases of sagging jowls need surgical intervention in order to get results that will last for many years. The most popular surgical option is facelift surgery or mini facelift. This procedure is able to tighten up all sagging skin, especially in the jawline area and reposition it so that the jawline appears more firm, younger and attractive than before. Mini facelifts are not invasive and they have a much faster recovery time than regular facelifts, being ideal for people who lead busy
There is no one “best” procedure to address jowls. It depends on your age, the degree of sagging, and other factors.
A facelift will tighten loose skin, but if there’s not much loose skin, it may not be helpful at all. Some patients who have had a facelift still have jowling.
Sometimes I’ll do a thread lift (using absorbable barbed threads) to tighten up the cheeks and jawline and give a little support under the jaw. This is usually done in combination with a small amount of filler to add volume along the lower jawline.
You could also inject a filler like Radiesse to add volume along the jawline or below the chin and neck. If you have minimal sagging, this alone might make a noticeable difference. But again, it depends on how severe your jowling is. The best way to find out what’s right for you would be to visit an aesthetic physician who can examine you and talk about your options
Dear agnes,
Congrats on your weight loss! Having lost weight, the skin has less volume and elasticity and therefore will sag. The best treatment is to have a face lift. Cheek fat that has been repositioned more in the cheek area will help elevate the jowls as well.
Dear agnes,
Congrats on your weight loss! Having lost weight, the skin has less volume and elasticity and therefore will sag. The best treatment is to have a face lift. Cheek fat that has been repositioned more in the cheek area will help elevate the jowls as well.
1) Filler
2) Threadlift
3) Traditional Neck lift
4) Mini-lift
5) Liposuction of the neck
6) Neck Liposculpture
7) Non-surgical solutions
Is There a Surgery To Get Rid Of Jowls?
Yes, there is a surgery to get rid of jowls. It is called the facelift. In the facelift, excess skin is excised and the remaining skin is lifted up to erase wrinkles and tighten the skin. The facelift can be performed on an inpatient or outpatient basis under general anesthesia.
Facelifts are very safe procedures with a high level of satisfaction among patients. Complications are rare, but may include bleeding and infection or scarring. Speak with your plastic surgeon to learn more about facelifts.
Yes, there is a surgery to get rid of jowls. It is called a facelift. A facelift can actually get rid of jowls, because a facelift is actually tightening up the skin under the jaw line and pulling it like a pull tab at the top of the ear and sliding it back up to where it’s supposed to be.
So I think that people who have sagging jowls, if they’re interested in getting rid of them, should discuss with their doctor about whether or not a facelift would be appropriate for them.
Yes, jowls are a common complaint among patients and the starting point is to understand what they are. Jowls are actually just loose skin on the side of the face.
When we look at the lower face, jowls can present as a thickening of the skin and fat in that area or it can present as excess skin and fat. If you pinch the skin along the jawline on either side of your face and there’s a bulge, that bulging of tissue is a jowl
If you pull the skin away from your face, you will see that there is excess skin hanging here (and there is also excess fat underneath and above the muscle). This is where other procedures come in. If it’s only jowling due to excess fat, then liposuction may be appropriate. But if it’s more than just fat and there’s loose skin, then something else needs to be done.
There are different ways to remove this jowling effect
The first option is using ultrasonic energy under the chin and along the jawline to tighten that area up. The second option is a surgical necklift with platysmaplasty (tightening up those muscles along your neck) or
Jowls are caused by loss of volume in the cheeks, which creates a “slide” down into the jawline. This is usually due to significant weight loss, but can also be caused by genetics and aging.
The most effective treatment is to inject filler such as Juvederm or Radiesse into the cheek area, which will lift the jowls. This is a simple and effective way to correct this problem.
Another option, if you are bothered enough by your jowls, is a facelift. However, this is drastic and should only be considered after careful thinking. A good surgeon will first recommend fillers, since they are much safer and easier to come off than a facelift.
As you age, your face changes and contours that once were smooth and taut begin to sag and droop. Along with the formation of jawline laxity, you may notice that fat in other areas of the face, such as under the chin, begins to accumulate.
The main causes of jowls are:
Aging skin
Gravity
Genetics
Jowls are caused by the loss of tone in the jawline. This can be due to laxity in skin, fat or both. Some patients will have jowls that are caused by a combination of loose skin and poor definition of the underlying jawbone.
The treatment of jowls depends on the cause. Jowls that are primarily caused by skin laxity can be treated via a facelift procedure which will tighten the underlying facial muscles and remove excess skin. This procedure is called a Rhytidectomy and can be performed from small incisions made behind the ear extending into the hairline.
If jowls are caused by fatty deposits then liposuction may be appropriate. This surgery removes excess fat from beneath the chin and defines the jawline contour. Fat can be removed via traditional liposuction techniques or with newer non-invasive technologies such as CoolSculpting® (requires multiple treatments).
If jowls are caused by bone atrophy, then injectable fillers may also be used to create a sharper more prominent jawline
In general, young people with the problem of “floating chin” (i.e., a chin that is not firmly attached to the underlying jaw bones) can have a surgery to correct it. This involves making an incision under the chin and connecting the muscles of the chin to the jaw bone. The result is a stronger, more defined jaw line, as well as a firmer-feeling chin.
It is much more difficult to do this in older people who have lost some of their bone mass, because there is less bone to attach the muscles to. In these cases, some doctors use small pieces of plastic or metal to help anchor the muscles.
The results of these surgeries can be quite good; however, they are not permanent. The tissues will continue to age over time and eventually return to their original appearance.