Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast.

It is turkey season, and I want to do a podcast all about the neck and no more turkey neck.

So today, let's talk about what causes problems in the neck, what allows us to improve the neck, and generally how the neck

is built. So today we're talking about necks because of turkey season, that gobbly, wobbly chin

thing that goes on. We see, we all see it. We see it when we bend over looking at our cell phones, a little extra

waddle. We see it as we age and the skin actually loses its elasticity and you get skin that hangs.

And then we also see it just in terms of laxity and crepiness changes. Even if you don't have fat,

even if you don't have hanging, you can have creping of the neck.

So important to appreciate your neck. We take great care of our faces. We don't take care of our

necks. And the neck actually gets a significant amount of sun damage. If you think about it when you're

driving, the neck is exactly in the zone of target.

It's below that windshield thing that you put down, and it's definitely where the chest is getting heated up in the neck as well, the decalate.

The neck is a challenging area to work with because it has a very thin layer of skin and very thin dermis, the padding of the skin. And it overlays this huge muscle called

the platisma. The platisma is a very thin, very flat muscle that tends to have bands and tends to

sometimes bunch up with these vertical bands called platysmal bands. I often treat these with Botox. I think that they age the

appearance of the neck and they show up as vertical stringy bands and photographs. So we see this

quite often in women and men who work out when you're very athletic, you're tensing up your neck

muscles. When you're shaving your neck, you're tensing up your neck muscles. When you're shaving your neck, you're

tensing up your neck muscles. So the platisma underlaying the neck skin is one of its challenges.

When we compare neck skin to facial skin, the neck has thinner skin that's more susceptible

to sun damage and wrinkles. It has less oils and less hydration. It has to have more flexibility

due to its constant twisting and turning. Evolutionarily, of course, your neck skin had to develop

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