Plastic Surgery

Studies from H. Marshak et al further understanding of plastic surgery

Published in Medical Device Business Week, January 7th, 2009

"The goal of the lower face- and neck-lift is restoration of a sharp cervicomental angle. However, standard cervical rhytidectomy for the patient with extensive excess skin of the neck often leaves the patient with objectionable vertical or diagonal skin folds of the lateral neck, a large hair-step deformity, or both," investigators in the United States report.

"To remove extensive excess skin of the neck and to avoid vertical/diagonal folds and a stepped hairline, the authors ''walk'' the excess skin posteriorly along the hairline, often from ear to ear along the inferior posterior hairline. Patients with extensive excess skin of the neck underwent neck-lift procedures...

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Source: Medical Device Business Week (2009-01-07)

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