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Plastic Surgery For Neck Wrinkles
By admin | May 20, 2010
Plastic Surgery For Neck Wrinkles
The one great truism about cosmetic procedures is that surgery is incapable of removing wrinkles. Surgery’s role is to correct sags and bags and reconstruct tissue.
Wrinkled skin is a matter of the skin’s deterioration. A loss of elasticity. The causes include too much ultraviolet light from years of suntanning, cigarette smoking, poor lifestyle including inadequate exercise and poor nutrition. Think of wrinkled skin as having its tiny little rubber bands within it that has given its elasticity as having deteriorated and stretched out. The skin no longer has the qualities of a new rubber band.
Understanding also that a wrinkle is the equivalent of a fault on the surface of the earth. To some level, there is a crack in the tissues of the skin just under the surface. Incidentally, wrinkles tend to occur more at sites of movement. That’s why people have crow’s feet around the eyes from squinting. They have deep vertical lines on the upper lip particularly from pursing their lips while smoking a cigarette. So you have to look at areas of functionality and understand that usually those are the areas that begin to demonstrate wrinkling earlier in life.
The neck skin is unique in that it is not as blessed as facial skin with respect to healing potential. This is very important to understand. We have very good success on the face. We can remove wrinkles by using several techniques including deep chemical skin peeling and laser treatment. These procedures are invasive although not surgical. The chemical or the laser beam invades the outer portion of the skin causing the surface tissues to be erased and inducing fresh new tissue below the surface. The new skin is indistinguishable from that of a younger person. When the skin is injured, it knows only how to regenerate brand new, fresh, younger tissue.
The neck has much less potential for healing because due to its unique anatomy and thinness, it cannot tolerate much injury. If the skin cannot be subject to a controlled injury such as from the laser or chemical, it cannot be rejuvenated.
There are things that do make the neck skin look younger. Although not as successfully as the laser and chemical facial treatments. Today, technology has delivered Intense Pulse Light and recently what seems to be a very promising technology, the second generation fractionated CO2 laser. These procedures excel in removing brown spots, eradicating the red spots and erasing that long-term sun damaged look. However, they are not as successful, at this point, as we would like them to be with respect to tightening the skin enough to make the wrinkles disappear.
But science never sleeps and technology continues to expand exponentially, we look for even better technologies and products coming down the line.
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