Face and Neck Lift: Smooth Neck Wrinkles and Learn How to Make Your Face Look Smaller

Hello. I am Lee Seong-jun, the chief director of the Seoul branch of Riting Plastic Surgery.

As living standards have improved, many people today strive to live better-quality daily lives that are younger and more vibrant.

Because everyone has different values, standards, and lifestyles, the criteria for what makes life feel high quality can vary as well. Still, many people fundamentally want to regain a youthful and healthy appearance.

Physical fitness, health, and immunity can be supplemented to some extent through exercise and self-care, and in fact there are many middle-aged people who maintain physical condition comparable to that of younger people through consistent management.

However, one thing even these people cannot easily avoid is skin aging.

Since time and gravity are given equally to everyone, skin inevitably begins to sag as we age.

The main cause of looking older: neck wrinkles

When people usually think about sagging skin and wrinkles, they tend to focus only on the face.

These days, there are many home medical devices and functional cosmetics that help with anti-aging, so many people use them. Most of the time, they concentrate on areas such as the cheeks, forehead, and jawline.

But in fact, the face should include the neck as well.

It is an area that is easy to overlook during anti-aging care, but when wrinkles deepen, the neck is one of the body parts that can make you look older than any other.

Types of neck wrinkles

In fact, even young people have neck wrinkles.

Because the neck has thin skin and the skin folds frequently as the head moves, even younger people can develop horizontal lines across the center of the neck.

Of course, if those horizontal lines are already deep, they can worsen with age.

The type of neck wrinkle that develops with aging is vertical wrinkles.

As skin elasticity decreases and the skin sags, it stretches vertically.

These vertical wrinkles are often accompanied by sagging and wrinkles in the lower and middle face.

If skin laxity has progressed to the point where deep nasolabial folds, cheek sagging, marionette lines, jaw sagging, and vertical neck wrinkles have all appeared, it is actually difficult to expect dramatic changes from procedures alone.

At that point, a face and neck lift that physically pulls up and secures the sagging skin can be helpful.

What is V-Neck Lifting?

Our clinic focuses exclusively on lifting, and our face and neck lift is also performed using a method we developed in-house.

V-Neck Lifting is one of those methods.

It is a surgery that can bring dramatic changes for people who find a full facelift too burdensome and are instead looking for lifting focused on neck wrinkles.

Our clinic's V-Neck Lifting involves making a VN-shaped incision from the middle area in front of the ear to the earlobe and behind the ear, then lifting the lower face, jawline, and neck wrinkle area where deep folds have formed.

After that, unnecessary tissue is removed and the area is tightly secured to finish.

Advantages of V-Neck Lifting

Riting Plastic Surgery's signature face and neck lift, V-Neck Lifting, helps create a slimmer and sharper jawline, reduce vertical neck wrinkles, and ease cheek sagging and marionette lines.

It can also help people who were worried that their face looked large because of sagging skin. With this method, they can achieve a sharper jawline, making the face look much smaller and slimmer, and enjoy the effect of facial contour surgery.

Because it delivers dramatic results without touching the bone at all, many people visit us and feel satisfied.

However, since the degree of skin laxity, the areas where wrinkles are especially severe, and the features of each person's facial structure all differ, precise planning is necessary.

In addition, because the lower face around the mouth and the neck are areas with a lot of muscle movement, a natural result after surgery is also important.

For this, it is important to find a medical team with a deep anatomical understanding of the SMAS layer and retaining ligaments.

The importance of SMAS layer dissection

The SMAS layer, located beneath the subcutaneous fat layer, is a skin layer that causes wrinkles and aging and has the force that pulls on the skin.

In other words, if this area is not properly dissected and only the layers above it are pulled up, the SMAS layer will continue to pull on the skin, reducing the durability of the lifting result.

Also, when making facial expressions or moving the face, the pulling force of this SMAS layer can create an unnatural look.

At Riting Plastic Surgery, whenever performing many lifting surgeries including face and neck lifts, we always emphasize the importance of the SMAS layer and retaining ligaments.

By carefully dissecting while considering each person's skin thickness and condition, we help maintain firm skin for a long time.

Why thorough aftercare is necessary

No matter how well skin is pulled up and secured, sagging will continue to occur.

That is because gravity is constantly at work and time never stops.

In other words, not only the face and neck lift that immediately tightens the skin by pulling it up, but also aftercare that helps maintain that condition for a long time is important.

Our clinic performs not only surgical lifting procedures but also combined injection and laser lifting.

And after skin lifting surgery, we provide appropriate care according to the recovery course that differs from person to person.

In fact, for middle-aged patients with severe skin laxity, better results can often be achieved by lifting and tightening the skin first, then maintaining it with consistent care, rather than relying on procedures alone.

A place that offers personalized lifting programs

Our clinic carefully distinguishes cases based on each person's degree and type of skin laxity, age, and other factors, and we suggest only the management plans that are truly necessary.

So if your expression has become darker over time because of deepening neck wrinkles and sagging in the lower and middle face, please feel free to visit Riting Plastic Surgery and make a lifting plan with us.

Become younger tomorrow than you are today!

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