HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -
Do you sit all day with your head down, looking at a phone or laptop? You may also be experiencing a droop at your jaw line or neck area. Experts say age and gravity can not be prevented.
This is one a lot of women have tried. Take a compact. Hold it down below your face and see how age and gravity have effected you. Then, look up and the skin moves outward giving a totally different look. That's kind of what smart phone face is all about.
Nancy Potts can relate, saying she was one of those people.
"I was. And it was like you have to look at your face if you turn your head over to blow dry your hair and you go....where did this come from?"
She decided to do something about it.
"I came to Dr. Yates, originally because my eyes, my eyelids were getting really heavy and baggy. I looked like I was tired all the time," said Potts.
Plastic surgeon Michael Yates said there are plenty of options out there.
"People may do good with a creme called 'Necktifirm,' which we have in our office. It helps tighten the neck area. There's another procedure, but no cutting, where you go deeper into the skin but it doesn't involve surgery."
"Those are ultra sound waves ...and they go through the skin and heat and heat up the deeper layers of the tissue of the face. And it sort of like shrink wraps the face a little bit to get some tightening of the face," said Yates.
He said they try to tailor the surgery to the patient's needs.
"So for that 'smart phone face or neck,' maybe a face and neck lift may be the best choice, and truly this is the gold standard for tightening the jaw line of the neck area."
Nancy decided to get the full rejuvenation. Dr. Yates was her surgeon.
"It would typically involve a brow lift to lift the forehead, upper eye lid surgery and lower eye lid surgery to kind of freshen up around the eyes. I even love doing a cheek lift for lifting the mid face and of course the face and neck lift which tightens the jaw line in the neck area.
Her before and after pictures are amazing. She was a pretty woman before, and now she looks younger and healthier. She said she's started exercising by walking every day.
"It just made me feel so much better from the inside to the outside."
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Nancy Potts had a minor face lift by Dr. Yates. She said she feels more confident in herself now.
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