One of the most popular uses recently has been the nonsurgical mini neck lift. This approach targets the muscles that control the skin on the neck, relaxing them to provide a smoother, more youthful appearance.
How Botox Treats the Neck
The vertical neck “cords” that often appear with age are known as platysmal bands. These are strips of the platysma, a superficial neck muscle that tightens and pulls the skin.
Carefully placed Botox injections can relax key sections of the platysma. This, in turn, softens banding, refines the jaw-neck transition, and can provide a subtle lifting effect without the need for surgery or recovery time.
The Botox Treatment Process
Your experienced injector maps the areas where the platysma is overactive before treatment, so they’ll typically ask you to move your face and jaw to watch how this muscle moves and how your skin reacts.
Using a fine needle, they position small injections along those lines, from the jawline toward the collarbone.
The process is usually well-tolerated, and most people feel only a few quick stings. Treatment takes about 10-15 minutes.
Results of Botox can appear in as little as a day or two, with full results at 14 days.
Most patients enjoy improvement for three or four months, then schedule maintenance to keep bands quiet and the neckline smoother. You can schedule Botox in the neck bands and other treatment areas, like forehead lines, on the same day to make staying youthfully rejuvenated as convenient as possible.
Ready to talk about neck bands?
If vertical neck lines make you look tense or older than you feel, a short, customized Botox session may help. At Living Water Vein Institute & Medical Spa, you can expect a warm welcome and attentive care, attuned to your specific needs. Call 276-289-2720 for our Abingdon, VA, office or 423-631-0101 for Johnson City, TN, to book a consultation with an expert injector.
