How do you feel good about the look of your neck?

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NECKS don’t lie. Sagging there betrays age like the rings on a tree, and now-common Botox and fillers in the face make neck imperfections stand out in stark relief. In her 2006 best-seller, “I Feel Bad About My Neck,” Nora Ephron, by then 65 and a resolved turtleneck wearer, raged against the injustice of having no remedy for her slackening throat skin, short of surgery.

Dr. EmericoCsepanyi, MD,  Medical director at Newport Beach Medspa demonstrates how the new noninvasive tightening procedure Ulthera would work.

But it turns out that isn’t true. These days, less-invasive options exist to improve the appearance of one’s neck, provided it isn’t a full-blown turkey wattle. Like a romance, a neck can go wrong in many ways. Weight gain or genetics may lead to a double chin. Loose skin can be compounded by underlying lax muscle. A neck-lift (on its own or with a face lift) remains the best bet for a striking, lasting fix.

But careful liposuctioning of excess fat can also help streamline the full necked, especially those who still have relatively youthful elastic skin that can bounce back after the procedure. The trick is not to be suctioned to the point of looking skeletal (one should watch for underlying loose bands of muscle, which become more obvious after).

Promoted during the last year on “The Rachael Ray Show,” Ulthera is a new skin-lifting procedure using focused ultrasound to spur collagen growth deep under the epidermis. A single treatment may improve the contours of under-chin laxity in patients roughly 40 to 55 years old who feel they aren’t ready for surgery or amenable to it, several doctors said, including Dr. Matthew White, a facial plastic surgeon at NYU Langone Medical Center.

 The Ulthera handpiece pressed to skin allows doctors to see underlying layers on a screen (as with gynecological ultrasounds) before they start treatment, a first for noninvasive dermatological procedures. “We deposit energy to a precise depth below the surface of the skin without affecting the intervening tissue,” said Matthew Likens, chief executive of Ulthera, the Mesa, Ariz., company behind it.

Patients may feel pain during treatment. Prospective candidates should also be aware that peer-reviewed published studies have yet to quantify just how much tightening can be expected in the neck and lower face. “That’s true,” Mr. Likens confirmed. (Such research is continuing, he said.)

The “Dr. Oz” segment left the impression that the Ulthera device has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration to be used for the neck and lower face as well as for the eyebrow area.

Here is where Ultherapy – Ultrasound Skin tightening comes alone

The only non-invasive procedure FDA cleared to life skin on the neck, chin, & brow. Ultherapy is a new type of non-surgical procedure that uses ultrasound & the body's own natural healing process to lift, tone, and tighten loose skin.  

 By Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times