Mother nature and gravity…does a facelift always include a neck lift?

Typically, yes. The term ‘facelift’ is used to describe a surgical procedure that improves the visible signs of aging in the mid-face, lower face, and neck. It is able to address skin sagging, deepening of the fold lines between the nose and the corner of the mouth (nasolabial folds), sagging fat pads, jowls along the jawline, and loose skin and muscle laxity under the chin and within the upper neck region.

Not all facelift techniques are the same. Just as a tailor may approach hemming a dress a bit differently based on that particular dress and their previous experience, one surgeon’s facelifting techniques may vary slightly from their colleague’s.

A concurrent neck lift is often paired with a facelift because the aging process is not isolated to the face – it affects the neck as well. In order to achieve a natural, youthful result throughout the face, jawline, and neck, surgical lifting and tightening is required within both the face and neck regions.