Neck Sculptra

Your neck deserves the same attention you’re giving your face!

Necks tend to bother people. While we can’t solve every neck problem, and this isn’t a surgical practice, we can offer skin tightening for crepey skin.

Sculptra can be used off label for skin smoothing and tightening in the neck, and we at Skinbeam have created some nice results by doing this. Adults over age 25 lose about 1% of their total body collagen per year. Mixing collagen into your coffee is a nice protein boost, however it will do nothing to change your skin. This is the role for Sculptra!

Sculptra is an injectable biostimulant that tells the fibroblasts (collagen-producing cells) under your skin to produce more collagen than they normally would. Over the course of about 90 days post injection, Sculptra creates mild skin tightening, smoothing and firming. We’re always careful to emphasize: it’s not surgery! Patient expectations must be adjusted for the weeks-to-months long onset time of Sculptra, and for millimeters of change, not centimeters or inches (that’s a surgical result, not injectable).

We inject Sculptra after numbing the neck with topical numbing cream, and Sculptra has lidocaine mixed into it, so the treatment is fairly comfortable. 1-2 vials in 1-2 sessions will treat most necks nicely. Sculptra induced collagen results last at least 25 months, according to FDA trials.

An increasingly common question we are getting is: how will Sculptra injections affect my candidacy for an eventual surgical face or neck lift? The most important answer to this is to ask your potential future surgeon how they feel about Sculptra (or similarly, Radiesse). Medical opinions vary widely. In general, rational advice is to wait at least a year between your last Sculptra treatment and having surgery, although some surgeons prefer no injectable biostimulants at all.

If it’s sun damage/sun spots that are bothering you on your neck and chest, our medical grade chemical peels, VI Peel or PCA peel are best. They also mildly induce collagen production, although not as greatly as Sculptra injections. Bottom line: skin laxity/crepey skin = consider Sculptra. Sun damage/spots = consider VI Peel for neck and chest.