How Soon Will This Treatment Start Working? It usually takes between four and six weeks for the results of a single treatment to gradually appear. For some patients, just one treatment is enough to resolve their fullness.
The answer is yes, it can. Oftentimes, sagging skin around the jawline can be caused by excess fat, and Kybella can effectively dissolve these cells over time. Not only can Kybella treat jowls, but it can also be combined with other treatments for optimal results.
Kybella does not tighten skin, but melts away excess under-chin fat, restoring youthful definition at the jawline. If your facial skin is still firm and elastic, it will contract on its own as the fatty deposits melt away. If your skin is looser, we can discuss the best approach for you.
You can receive Kybella injections every three months (12 weeks) with an average of two to four treatments total for optimum results. As a whole, there is enough evidence to confidently say that using Kybella for jowls is effective enough to be worth looking into.
Kybella will last forever!
Maximum results can be seen after six months and are long-lasting. Kybella completely destroys fat cells and they disappear permanently. So, once these fat cells are eliminated you will be able to enjoy your newly sculpted chin for many years.
Answer: Maximizing Kybella Results
Staying well-hydrated and active will help to get your lymph flowing and mobilize the fat. I have found that doing a shock-wave treatment within a week of Kybella treatment helps maximize results as well-- find out if your clinic has a Zimmer Z-Wave or BTL Cellutone for this.
Keep in mind that even in cases where Kybella does eliminate existing submental fat, the skin in the area may loosen and sag as a result. If loose or sagging skin remains, then you may want to follow up with an Ultherapy treatment.
Every patient is different, but in general, you should start seeing great results after just one Kybella treatment. Most patients need one or two additional Kybella treatments if they have thicker submental fat tissue.
There are several options for treating sagging jowls or reducing how saggy or droopy they appear. Surgical procedures, such as neck lifts, can tighten your skin and make it look less saggy. Nonsurgical procedures, such as thermage, lasers, and peels, can change the composition of the collagen in your skin.
It's important to space Kybella injections apart. Not only does this allow the active ingredient time to target submental fat in the chin, but it also gives your body time to heal in between treatments. If you have too many injections too close together, this could increase your risk of side effects, like swelling.
A month after the procedure, most people have definite reduction in fat tightening of the skin in the treated area. This continues to improve over the next 3-5 months. Swelling tends to be milder with each subsequent treatment.
Jowl fat overhang can reduce jawline definition. The most common treatment to reduce jowl fat is liposuction. ATX-101 (deoxycholic acid injection), a minimally invasive treatment approved for submental fat reduction, may also be an effective treatment for jowl fat.
Whether it's making you look older, heavier, or just more unhappy with your appearance, double chins can be incredibly frustrating and seemingly impossible to remedy. But with Kybella, you can achieve a structured, contoured jawline with just a few simple injections.
Kybella is good for fat under the chin and won't make the jowls appear larger.
Facelift – Facelift surgery is often considered the ideal solution for moderate to significant jowling. Designed to lift and tighten sagging facial tissue, this procedure can effectively reduce the appearance of jowls and create a more defined jawline.
Can Kybella™ Be Used on Jowls? Kybella is only FDA-approved for use on a double chin. Using it on jowl fat could damage, irritate or injure the marginal mandibular facial nerve. If you have questions regarding jowl fat, ask your medically licensed aesthetic injection specialist about other options.
As we age, the skin and fat in the face begin to loosen and sag. There is a point just in front of the jowls called the mandibular ligament where the skin is fixed to the bone and sagging doesn't occur. This allows the sagging to happen just behind that point and hence the development of jowls.
Ultherapy is an outpatient, non surgical cosmetic procedure for lifting, tightening, and firming jowls. Much like filler injections, one of the primary benefits of ultherapy is how fast and easy treatments can be. The process causes little to no discomfort and entails virtually zero patient recovery downtime.
Perhaps there is not as much fat in the area as thought. The fat could also be deep to the muscle; an area not affected by the medicine. Perhaps the injection is not reaching the target area (e.g. The needle isn't going deep enough).
The results of Kybella® injections happen gradually. You will start noticing changes in your appearance within 4 to 6 weeks. However, Kybella® typically takes about 3 months before you can see the full results.
Results from Kybella injections are typically gradual. Targeted fat cells are usually removed from the area within four to six weeks after receiving injections, at which point patients start to see a noticeable difference to the appearance of their profile.
"The Kybella kills the fat cells so the fat won't come back in the treated area, but it still can come back, and it may come back in a new area," Mitchell says. "If you normally gain weight in the chin, it could come back in the neck post-Kybella, which may look unnatural. This can also happen with liposuction."
The “Bullfrog Effect” won't last.
This lasted for over a week and is completely normal. Ice and ibuprofen helped significantly; most of my swelling has subsided at week 3. Numbing is also a side effect that should be expected: my treatment area was numb immediately after treatment and is still a bit numb at 3 weeks.
Kybella can be used in older adults as long as the skin is not too loose. Based on the pictures, you may need some skin tightening as well, so laser assisted liposuction may be a better option.