Neck Lift Patients are Getting Younger
And patients, it seems, are getting wise to this fact. In board-certified plastic surgeon Melissa Doft‘s New York City practice, “there’s a paradigm shift away from noninvasive treatments, like Ultherapy and Thermage, as many patients do not see a significant difference after these expensive treatments and are looking for a more permanent and impressive improvement,” she says. Devgan notes a similar trend: About one-third of patients coming in for neck work have tried various nonsurgicals before graduating to surgery. But the other two-thirds? “They want to skip all of that [nonsurgical] stuff, because they’re realizing they’re basically paying [the equivalent of] a surgery in minimally invasive things that don’t work in the long-term.”