Introduction to Neck Lift
Enhance your profile and rejuvenate your appearance with a neck lift by Dr. Tina Ho, MD, designed to restore smooth, defined contours along the chin and jawline for a naturally youthful result.
What is a Neck Lift?
A neck lift rejuvenates the neck. Surgeons perform it on their own or with a facelift. A facelift addresses the midface and jawline.
The ideal chin-neck angle (cervicomental angle) in a younger person is 105-120 degrees. With aging, gravity makes neck skin sagging. This increases the chin-neck angle. Other age signs are harsh platysmal muscle banding and excess fat below the chin (submental adiposis).
Dr. Ho is highly experienced in neck lift surgery. Using this knowledge, she tailors her surgical approach to each patient’s anatomy and goals.
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The Neck Lift Procedure
Learn more about the neck lift procedure and how it can subtly enhance your facial harmony with insights from Dr. Tina Ho.
What Can a Neck Lift Achieve?
See the powerful results a neck lift can achieve in this video featuring Dr. Tina Ho’s patients. Through careful technique and an artistic eye, Dr. Ho restores smoother, firmer neck contours and a more defined jawline. The transformations highlight how subtle refinements can create a naturally rejuvenated appearance that enhances confidence and facial harmony.
Neck lift: What is Expected with Surgery?
The approach depends on the extent of deeper sculpting and whether skin needs to be removed. With all neck lift surgeries an incision will be created in the crease under the chin. When skin needs to be removed, additional incisions are made behind the ear. If no skin needs to be removed small incisions may still be placed in the earlobe creases only. Once under the skin, the platysma muscle is entered where seller sculpting of fat, muscles, and glands may occur.
What Are Common Issues That Can Be Addressed With a Neck Lift?
Common issues that can be improved or corrected by a neck lift include but are not limited to:
Skin Laxity
Muscle Laxity
Plastysma Banding
Ill-defined Jawline
Low Hanging Glands
Jowling
Turkey Neck
Double Chin
Lack of Neck Contour
Enlarged Glands
Dr. Ho is experienced in improving all of these issues with neck lift surgery and will discuss with each patient her customized approach for each type of issue.
Why Choose Dr. Tina Ho for a Neck Lift?
Dr. Tina Ho stands out among facial plastic surgeons in Philadelphia and Wayne as a double board-certified specialist with advanced training in aesthetic and reconstructive procedures of the face and neck. She approaches every treatment as both an art and a science — combining meticulous surgical precision with an artistic eye to achieve balanced, natural-looking results.
From consultation to recovery, Dr. Ho provides deeply personalized care. She listens carefully to each patient’s goals, develops a thoughtful treatment plan, and tailors every step to complement the individual’s anatomy and aesthetic vision. Her philosophy centers on enhancing natural beauty and restoring harmony, never producing an “overdone” or artificial look.
Having completed elite fellowship training under world-renowned facial plastic surgeon Dr. Dean Toriumi, Dr. Ho remains at the forefront of modern techniques in facial rejuvenation and contouring. Her expertise spans a wide range of procedures, from surgical to minimally invasive, allowing her to recommend the right combination of treatments for optimal and lasting results.
Recognized throughout the Philadelphia region and beyond, Dr. Ho has earned the trust of patients who travel from across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York for her skill, compassion, and artistry. She devotes the time and care needed to ensure each patient feels informed, supported, and confident in their results.
Neck Lift by Dr. Tina Ho
Types of Neck Lift
Dr. Tina Ho, MD, offers advanced surgical procedures tailored to your unique aesthetic goals. With a commitment to natural-looking results and personalized care, Dr. Ho combines her extensive expertise with an artistic eye to help you achieve the refined and confident appearance you desire. Explore the possibilities for transformative change with a trusted and skilled facial plastic surgeon.
Deep Neck Lift
The Deep Neck Lift addresses excess fat, platysma bands, and submandibular glands—to restore a youthful, contoured appearance. While recovery is more extensive than a mini neck lift, the results are longer-lasting and transformative. Ideal for patients seeking deeper neck rejuvenation.
Mini-Neck Lift
The Mini Neck Lift offers a solution for patients with mild neck sagging. Through discreet incisions, Dr. Ho enhances jawline definition and restores youthful contours. This procedure provides natural-looking results with relatively minimal downtime compared to other neck lifts.
Revision Neck Lift
Dr. Tina Ho, a board-certified facial plastic surgeon who specializes in Revision Neck Lift for individuals with neck issues from previous surgeries. Dr. Ho’s extensive experience ensures optimal outcomes for those seeking corrective neck rejuvenation.
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The “Undetectable Era” of Neck Lifts
In the “Undetectable Era” of plastic surgery, the focus has shifted toward achieving natural, subtle enhancements that refresh one’s appearance without obvious signs of intervention. This modern philosophy is especially evident in Dr. Tina Ho’s neck lift procedures. Rather than relying on outdated techniques that create tight or overly pulled results, Dr. Ho uses refined approaches that produce a smoother, more youthful neck contour that blends seamlessly with the rest of the face, hiding incisions within natural skin creases and using techniques to minimize scarring.
Complementing the surgical approach, Dr. Ho incorporates ElixirMD Cellular Repair light therapy to accelerate healing, reduce inflammation, and enhance patient comfort. This underscores Dr. Ho’s holistic approach to patient care, focusing on both surgical precision and optimized recovery. Altogether, a neck lift in the undetectable era offers patients a refreshed, elegant outcome, restoring confidence without ever revealing the procedure behind it.
The ideal neck lift candidate is a healthy non-smoker. Good candidates have no remarkable medical or surgical history. Additionally, good candidates do not take blood-thinning medications. Ideal candidates also have strong bony facial features, normal hyoid position, and good skin tone. Neck plastic surgery is best used for moderate to severe sagging.
The Dedo classification of the aging neck helps surgeons decide who is right for lower face and neck surgeries like submental liposuction, facelifts, and neck lifts. The problems to be addressed also play a role.
What is Deep Neck Lift?
Deep neck lift is one type of neck lift surgery that involves sculpting the deeper structures of the face to produce dramatic and long-lasting neck rejuvenation results. Traditional and more conservative approaches to neck lift usually entail submental liposuction, platysma plication, and removal of some subplatysmal fat. With the deep neck lift technique, excess fat below the platysma layer as well as low-hanging submandibular glands and digastric muscles are trimmed for additional contour improvement. The platysma muscle is sutured back together at the midline and also tacked up under the jawline laterally for maximal resuspension of the muscle layer. The deep neck lift approach to neck lift surgery is more aggressive and is associated with longer recovery but ultimately produces a more definitive and longer-lasting surgical outcome. Dr. Tina Ho is a neck lift and jawline contouring specialist with experience in deep neck lift surgery and will thoroughly assess each neck lift candidate to determine whether they may benefit from a deep neck lift.
Before and After
Dr. Ho’s Neck Lift Results
Facelift and Neck Lift: Before and After
This wonderful male patient in his 60s came to me for surgical consultation, bothered by his aging neck. We pursued a deep plane facelift and deep neck lift and are thrilled with his beautiful, natural results. This video displays his surgical outcome one year later. Male facelift patients with shorter hair can have undetectable scars if they are placed along natural creases and curves around the ears and heal favorably.Nasal and Jawline Contouring Surgery: Before and After
This lovely female patient had a history of prior cosmetic facial surgery including rhinoplasty, buccal fat removal, and chin liposuction. She desired additional nasal tip refinement and jawline and neck contouring. We pursued revision rhinoplasty as well as deep neck lift with chin augmentation. Patients with thicker nasal skin and facial skin overall tend to have less dramatic results and take longer to heal. We are so thrilled with her surgical outcome one year out.
Facelift and Neck Lift: Before and After
This beautiful female patient in her 50s came to me for surgical consultation, interested in facelift and neck lift for facial and neck rejuvenation as well as facial and jawline contouring. We pursued a deep plane facelift and deep neck lift where skin, fat, muscle, and gland tissue needed to be removed to achieve her surgical outcome. I am grateful for our surgeon physician relationship and we are so thrilled with her beautiful, natural results.
Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift: Before and After
This kind 45 year-old female patient presented originally for chin liposuction consultation, bothered by the fullness under her chin. I instead recommended a definitive deep plane facelift and neck lift for the best facial and neck rejuvenation and contouring results. She already looks amazing at three months out in these before/after photos. Final outcome is seen at six to twelve months after surgery. We are so thrilled with her results.
Deep Neck Lift: Before and After
This wonderful patient came to me for surgical consultation seeking chin liposuction to improve her jawline and neck contour. Her exam however demonstrated laxity and bulkiness of her deeper neck structures — particularly of her neck muscles — rather than abundant superficial fat in the chin and upper neck area.
I recommended my signature deep mini neck lift to achieve the most definitive surgical results. During surgery, I performed chin liposuction as well as platysmaplasty and debulking of the patient’s large, ptotic anterior digastric muscles.
Three months later, this patient has healed beautifully and already is demonstrating a snatched jawline. We are so thrilled with her results!
A Patient’s Story of Transformation
Every facelift journey is deeply personal, reflecting not just aesthetic goals but the desire to feel renewed and confident. In this featured testimonial, one of Dr. Ho’s patients shares her honest experience—from initial consultation to recovery—offering an inside look at the compassionate care, surgical precision, and natural results that define Dr. Ho’s approach to facial rejuvenation.
After Your Neck Lift Surgery
Every neck lift procedure with Dr. Tina Ho, MD is carefully tailored to each patient. Recovery, incision type, and post-operative care can vary, but Dr. Ho provides detailed guidance to ensure a smooth and successful healing process.
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Enhance Your Recovery with Elixir MD
The Elixir MD™ is an innovative recovery tool that offers various treatment programs using different LED light wavelengths to achieve specific pre and post-surgical goals. These programs are supported by advanced artificial intelligence temperature controls and adjustable settings to address a range of concerns and goals. This non-invasive therapy is safe, painless, and can reduce infections after surgery while also enhancing recovery and minimizing scarring after rhinoplasty surgery.
Benefits of Elixir MD
Enhanced post-operative recovery after rhinoplasty. Using LED light, Elixir MD™ stimulates the skin to accelerate wound healing and minimize scarring post-surgery.
Improved healing and cellular repair. Specific wavelengths stimulate collagen and elastin production, which are essential for healing after surgery.
Easier rhinoplasty recovery. Reduces inflammation responsible for swelling and pain after surgery.
Improved lymphatic drainage and blood flow. Enhances the delivery of nutrients and removal of waste for optimal healing.
Elixir MD Treatment Programs for Rhinoplasty
Elixir Detox
This pre-operative therapy uses blue light to reduce the number of bacteria, oils, and toxins on the skin, reducing surgical complications such as infection.
Elixir Cellular Repair
Post-rhinoplasty, Cellular Repair uses yellow light to improve circulation, reducing bruising and swelling, accelerating healing, and shortening recovery.
Elixir NeoXcell
The NeoXcell™ treatment program combines the benefits of Elixir Cellular and Thermal to boost healing and balance melanin production for a more even skin tone.
Elixir RoXium
RoXium™ uses yellow and blue light to reduce swelling/bruising, prevent skin oxidation, decrease sebum, minimize pores, and clear the complexion.
Neck Lift Cost
Neck lift pricing varies. This is because the cost is based on the surgeon’s skill and approach. Additionally, the amount of tissue removed and surgical time affect neck lift price. The average cost ranges from $28,000-$33,000 plus facility fees, depending on the extent of work needed, level of difficulty of surgery, and amount of time needed.
Patient Testimonials
Real Stories from Neck Lift Patients
Before and After My Deep Plane Facelift & Neck Lift Surgery with Dr. Tina Ho
My name is Kimberly. I am from Rhode Island. This is my husband, Vincent, and I wouldn’t be here today getting this facelift and neck lift surgery or had this journey if it wasn’t for him. From the time I was young, I call it the curse. My father had a double chin. My grandmother had a double chin. My aunts had one too, and they would all tease me. You know, as a young child, they’d say, “Someday you’re going to look like this.” And I did get that double chin. I never really felt confident with it. It always bothered me. I was always self-conscious about it. I didn’t feel comfortable meeting new people. I didn’t feel comfortable in myself. I didn’t feel pretty. I didn’t feel comfortable taking photos.
Patient Testimonial: Facelift & Neck Lift
This beautiful patient in her 40s came to me for surgical consultation, bothered by her aging face and neck. We pursued a deep plane facelift and deep neck lift to restore more youthful contour to her face, jawline, and neck. We are so grateful for her kind testimonial that describes her patient journey and for her beautiful, natural results.
Buccal Fat Removal + Neck Lift: Patient Testimonial
I am truly grateful for this wonderful patient’s beautiful facial and jawline contouring surgery results and even more humbled by her kind testimonial. In this video, she describes and shows why she underwent buccal fat removal and neck lift and her recovery journey.
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Dr. Tina Ho in the Press
Dr. Tina Ho has been featured in leading media publications that highlight her expertise in facial plastic surgery.
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