Double chin and liposuction

Double chin is a common cosmetic complaint, and many are looking for ways to get rid of a double chin. Fat accumulation can occur beneath the jawline very easily in some people. Even if they are not particularly overweight. Many try exercise and diet to loose that double chin without success.

Double chin exercises and chin exercisers can improve muscle tone. But a collection of fat on the upper neck or under the chin will remain. You can exercise a muscle and make it firmer or larger.

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But you cannot exercise fat. In addition to exercises for a double chin, chin straps and other gadgets are often tried with little success.

Liposuction double chin surgery is very effective for eliminating and getting rid of excess fat and or loose, sagging skin of the upper neck area. With the newest microcannular liposuction techniques, patients are routinely gratified, have a quick recovery, and return to work much sooner than before.

Formerly, facelifts and chin tucks were the primary types of chin surgery used to get rid of a double chin. Both are effective, but newer methods are associated with many fewer side effects, a much more rapid recovery, and far less scarring than earlier methods.

Liposuction has revolutionized double chin surgery. Liposuction can easily remove the double chin fat. And significant tightening of chin and neck skin naturally accompanies the healing process after liposuction.

Tumescent technique liposuction of the chin and neck offers many important advantages:

The skin incisions now used in liposuction are tiny compared to the very long incisions used in facelift surgery. They heal very rapidly. Small incisions are possible because newer liposuction instruments are very tiny also. In addition, most, or even all, of the incisions are placed where they are very difficult to spot. The liposuction instrument is called a cannula. For chin and neck liposuction, the cannula is usually less than 2mm in diameter, and is not much larger than the lead from a #2 pencil.

With tumescent technique liposuction (using local anesthetic only), there is very little bleeding and less trauma to the tissues than was the case with earlier liposuction. To find out how liposuction by local anesthetic decreases tissue trauma and decreases bleeding by 90%, click to find more about tumescent liposuction.

Recovery is very rapid after eliminating a double chin when tumescent technique liposuction is used. No general anesthesia is used, only local anesthetic. We routinely use only local anesthetic, without any sedation, and patients are comfortable througout the procedure. So patients are up and about immediately afterwards. And the downtime and the risks of general anesthesia are avoided.

So, tumescent technique liposuction has become the treatment of choice for eliminating double chin, that is, deposits of fat under the chin.

After chin liposuction surgery, most patients take 2-3 days off work. But they are easily able to undergo light to moderate activity during that time. There is minimal to moderate swelling and bruising which rapidly subside. This is in contrast to facelift surgery - recovery is considerably longer following a facelift.

After liposuction for double chin, a special garment is worn for a few days. It is an elastic strap, kind of like an enlarged chin strap. The purpose of the garment is to provide a little gentle pressure for a few days. After that, no special care is required.

The facelift procedure still has a place in cosmetic surgery. But liposuction of the chin, neck and jowls areas, either alone, or in combination with laser resurfacing, is increasingly becoming an excellent alternative to facelift surgery for many patients.

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	Jeffrey Melton, M.D., S.C., Chicago and Oakbrook Center Mall, Oak Brook, Illinois (630) 928-0240 www.drmelton.com