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How is The Face and Neck Affected by Significant Weight Loss?

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Health and well-being can be significantly improved by losing weight, particularly for people who are overweight or obese. Sustained weight loss significantly the risk of developing certain medical conditions, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and osteoarthritis. Adopting healthy eating habits combined with increasing levels of physical exercise will contribute to successful weight loss. The of weight loss include lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.

Significant weight loss may result in the development of excess skin, which can lead to skin sagging in certain parts of the body, including the face and neck. People who lose amounts of weight often appear older because their faces seem sunken. The Centre for Surgery offers a range of non-surgical and surgical treatments to improve the appearance of the face and neck after significant weight loss.

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How does significant weight loss affect your face and neck?

People who gain weight often notice that the skin in many different parts of the body becomes stretched. Excess subcutaneous fat leads to stretching of the overlying skin, which can permanently damage the delicate collagen and elastin framework, which contributes to the maintenance of elastic and firm skin. With dramatic weight loss, it is not uncommon for excess or loose skin to form on the face and neck, as the skin does not return to its normal level of tightness once subcutaneous fat is reduced.

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An overall loss of subcutaneous fat in certain parts of the face and body may cause existing fine lines and wrinkles to become more visible and increase the likelihood of additional signs of premature ageing appearing. When successful weight loss occurs, subcutaneous fat is lost from all body areas, including the face and neck. This can result in the formation of or sunken cheeks, sunken eyes and an overall gaunt-looking appearance. Professional long-distance runners often have a gaunt face due to a lack of subcutaneous fat in the cheeks. Significant weight loss can also result in the formation of hollowed-out areas the lower eyelids. Our doctors and practitioners are skilled in restoring youthfulness to the face and neck after dramatic weight loss with a range of surgical and non-surgical aesthetic treatments designed to tighten loose skin.

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What are the surgical options to get rid of loose skin on the face or neck?

In many cases of excess skin after weight loss, surgical treatment is required to remove loose skin. The principle of surgical treatments to tighten skin involves surgical removal of excess skin, followed by closing the incisions with stitches to give effective skin tightening.

The most common procedures to tighten sagging skin in the face and neck include facelift, neck lift and brow lift surgery. A involves making incisions both in front of and behind the ear, extending into the scalp area. The skin is then gently lifted upward, and any excess skin is removed by trimming the edges. The incisions are then closed with dissolvable . Facelift for men is also commonly requested and differs from that for women in several ways. aims to get rid of loose skin whilst preserving the masculine appearance of the face and often little or no volume with fat transfer or fillers.

A is a less invasive procedure than a traditional facelift. It focuses on tightening skin in the lower part of the face, including the jawline, jowls, chin, and neck. Mini facelift surgery is commonly combined with fat to enhance volume in the cheeks and other areas of the face by weight loss.

, also known as facial fat transfer, involves removing fat from another area of the body using liposuction and then injecting it into targeted areas of the face to replenish volume lost due to weight loss or the ageing process. Patients with significant degrees of skin may achieve better results with a traditional facelift. The most treatment option will be recommended after a full clinical assessment at your face-to-face consultation. A one-stitch facelift is generally not recommended for patients who have lost significant amounts of weight, leading to loose or sagging skin on the face and neck.  is ideal for with early signs of ageing in the middle part of the face who are otherwise at a stable weight.

Facelift surgery is commonly combined with a neck lift to tighten loose skin found in the neck area. Patients with excessive loose skin in the neck may also complain of a turkey neck’.

A is an effective treatment for rejuvenating the appearance of the neck. There are two types of neck lift procedures. The first is a skin removal technique, or cervicoplasty, to tighten loose neck skin. Any sagging skin is removed before the remaining skin is surgically repositioned and stitched into the correct position. The desired outcome is a smoother and more contoured neck. An alternative for performing neck lift surgery involves performing platysmaplasty. Platysmaplasty involves sculpting the neck’s soft tissues by removing excess fat the chin, by surgical reconstruction of weakened muscles to achieve a tighter-looking neck. A platysmaplasty is a more extensive surgery than a cervicoplasty, although the results are considered longer-lasting. Once an expert surgeon has examined you, the most appropriate neck lift procedure will be recommended. In many cases, neck lift surgery will be combined with or chin lipo to remove any excess fat beneath the chin and along the jawline for a more contoured look.

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Loose skin affecting the eyelids can be addressed with a blepharoplasty or . Blepharoplasty surgery the surgical removal of excess skin and fat. It is often combined with the surgical repair of the underlying levator muscle of the eyelids to achieve more eyes. Eyelid reduction surgery is commonly combined with facelift and neck lift surgery for enhanced facial rejuvenation results. In many cases, blepharoplasty is combined with to lift a sagging brow affected by weight loss and tighten forehead skin.

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What are the non-surgical options to tighten loose skin on the face and neck?

Many people complain of having a turkey neck’, commonly due to saggy neck skin. Skin stretched out from excess weight gain does not return to its normal level of tightness after significant weight loss. Here at the Centre for Surgery, we have several effective non-surgical alternatives to neck lift surgery, including Morpheus8 and laser skin tightening. Although these treatments are non-invasive and do not involve risks of surgery, the results achievable with these techniques are considered to be less impressive and have a shorter duration of effect.

Non-surgical brow lifts can be achieved with wrinkle-relaxing injections or radiofrequency skin with AccuTite. Although wrinkle-relaxing are temporary treatments that require top-up treatments every 3 to 4 months, AccuTite can produce results that last between three and five years.

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If you have developed or excess skin after weight loss, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us today to book a consultation at our state-of-the-art Baker Street clinic in Marylebone. One of our expert surgeons can discuss the most appropriate treatment options to improve the appearance of a gaunt face after weight loss.


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