Sometimes that extra chin and neck flab is genetic, sometimes it's due to age or weight gain, but whatever the reason, who really wants a turkey neck? Not Lynda West. She says she never saw it coming.
"It was one of those where I'd seen several pictures of me and I was mortified to see, you know, this giant, you know, turkey neck and I just thought it was very aging,” she said.
But Lynda was reluctant to go the surgical route.
"You're changing the way you look, for better or worse,” she said. "If you start doing facelifts when you're in your forties, you're doomed to having to do them in your fifties and your sixties."
But now there are non-evasive options. One is Exilis. It uses radio frequency.
"We can actually heat the skin to tighten it and we can heat the fat to make the fat cells leaky,” said Dr. Robert Weiss.
That also stimulates more collagen to form.
"In heated or maybe slightly altered in some way and so it needs to be replaced,” said Dr. Weiss.
And while heat is involved it's usually not uncomfortable.
"Patients describe this as a warm massage most people tend to want to just close their eyes and sit back and relax,” said Dr. Weiss.
Most patients need a series of treatments.
"What we're thinking is that after this series of three or four that there'll be tightening that lasts for a year or two. And that she may need to come back maybe once a year or once every other year for maintenance,” said Dr. Weiss.
The treatment is available locally at Seattle Skin and Laser. The cost depends on what part of the body is being treated and how many sessions are needed to achieve results.
One website reports the price for a single neck treatment is about $400.
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