How Do We Treat Tech Neck?
We use two different treatments on your neck wrinkles: hyper-diluted microbotox and an HA (hyaluronic acid) filler. Both of these combine to relax wrinkles and then elevate them, resulting in a smoother appearance. Read a more in-depth description of each treatment below.
Hyper-diluted Microbotox: Microbotox is actually becoming quite the trend these days. This treatment is basically Botox®, but in much smaller doses. Microbotox, especially when hyper-diluted, is a much more mild treatment than a standard Botox® procedure. We like to do a microbotox treatment on the neck, due to the thinner skin. In fact, too much Botox on the neck could cause that dreaded stiff and frozen look. The main goal of the microbotox is just to stop the surrounding muscles from contracting, but in a natural looking way. We don’t want the patient to fill stiff or restricted when he/she turns their head. Actually smoothing out and filling in the wrinkles is done in the next step…
HA Fillers: Hyaluronic Acid fillers are a great way to smooth out the wrinkles and ultimately add additional volume. Dr. Joshua Zeichner has a great metaphor for this: “Think of Botox like unfolding a tablecloth to blow in the wind… if the folds are not deep, they will go away on their own, but in some cases, you may need an iron to fully eliminate them. The iron is the filler used to directly address these individual neck lines.”
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