Aesthetic

Face, Neck and Brow

Composite Platysmaplasty and Closed Percutaneous Platysma Myotomy: A Simple Way to Treat Deformities of the Neck Caused by Aging

Gonzalez R (UNAERP Medicine School, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil) Aesthet Surg J 29:344-354, 2009^§

Abstract

Background

Although cervical skin and platysmal laxity are more apparent at the lateral area of the neck, the reported treatments focus on performing plication on the anterior midline or releasing the muscle’s lateral border and tractioning it back. Because of the ineffectiveness of such methods in solving more complex cases, surgeons have been trying more efficient procedures that are also riskier and could therefore increase the complication rate.

Objective

The author describes a simple method for treating cervical laxity using composite platysmaplasty. He also reports on the use of closed platysma myotomy to treat remaining or recurrent platsymal bands.

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