Procedure Performed: MACS Lower Facelift / Neck Lift
Amazing results of an ozempic face before after patient image using the MACS lift by Maryland Top Plastic Surgeon, Sheilah A. Lynch, MD
What Does GLP-1 Rapid Weight Loss Can Do To Your Face
Rapid weight loss changes your facial features through two different characteristics:
First: Deflation – when the deep and superficial fat that once filled out your cheeks, temples, and under-eye area reduces, the once fullness of your face and neck suddenly decreases.
Second: Sagging of your skin and SMAS layer, which is the connective tissue that supports facial structure, now no longer has that fullness or volume to rest on, so it sags under its own weight.
Facial fat loss after rapid weight loss isn’t unique to GLP-1 medications—it follows any significant weight loss. However, the accelerated loss of weight with GLP-1-medications often reduces faster the skin’s ability to keep up with elasticity. This mismatch between how fast fat disappears and how slowly skin can adapt is why the “Ozempic face” looks different from ordinary aging.
Wow, that is a loaded question for sure.
Most patients will need a neck lift or facelift after GLP-1 weight loss, once the volume is gone and their facial skin sags.
Cosmetic fillers have a limit on what they can correct. Once your skin and SMAS laxity have reduced faster than the fat that used to support them, adding more filler doesn’t lift anything; it only adds more weight on top of tissue that’s already sagging. The result often looks like a heavier, more tired face rather than a lifted one, which is the opposite of what most patients are trying to correct.
- When your face / neck shows severe skin laxity: the loose, hanging skin or “turkey neck” that non-surgical treatments for skin tightening cannot correct.
- When you see jowling and deep folds: Cosmetic filler cannot correct noticeable sagging of the lower face tissue and deep folds around your mouth and jawline.
Correcting Volume Loss vs. Sagging: Cosmetic fillers work well for mild volume loss (gauntness or “Ozempic face”),
The actual structural sagging of the face and neck requires a surgical lift.
Dr. Lynch offers both surgical and non-surgical options. For those patients who need a surgical option, she can discuss different options – depending on the degree of sagging- such as combining a deep-plane facelift with fat grafting, or a MACS Lift, or a Neck Lift to restore lost fullness and tighten loose skin simultaneously.
How do you know what exactly your issue is? It’s time to schedule a consultation with Washington DC’s Top Facial Surgeon, Sheilah A. Lynch, MD, for an evaluation to learn where you are in this process.
- Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty): Can help correct the vertical separation of the abdominal muscles, known as “diastasis,” which can occur after pregnancy.
- LIPO 360 with a Tummy Tuck: Additional liposuction of the flanks, hips, lower back, and upper back can enhance your tummy tuck results. Removing stubborn fat and tissue around the lower back, flanks, waistline, and stomach can dramatically improve your results.
- Body Lift (Upper/Lower or Both): Can correct the circumferential skin laxity affecting the back, abdomen, thighs, and buttocks after major weight loss.
- Arm and Thigh Lift: Can remove the hanging skin on your upper arms and inner thighs.
- Breast and Chest Procedures: Can remove sagging skin or add volume and shape with breast lift, reduction, or augmentation.
Advanced body contouring can be an additional treatment after your Ozempic weight loss to help you to achieve your desired body shape. Dr. Lynch will target areas of fat and excess skin that may not have responded well to the weight loss alone.
Body reshaping surgery can address all areas of the body, including pockets of fat and skin laxity, which often occur after taking Ozempic.
Answer: YES !!
Look at this amazing Ozempic face before-and-after result!
The term Ozempic face describes the gaunt appearance of one’s face after using the injected drug Ozempic or Tirzepatide. The sudden loss of fat while losing weight can, in part, cause your facial structure to fall.
Meet Top Ozempic Facial Correction Specialist, Dr. Sheilah A. Lynch, a board-certified plastic surgeon, can treat this common Ozempic side effect: deflated key areas of your face, which results in our patients looking more aged. Dr. Lynch is considered one of Washington DC’s Top 10 Facial Plastic Surgeons.
Symptoms of an Ozempic Face
Hollowed temples, cheeks, and eyes: The eyes will appear deeper set, cheeks that cave inward and lose the roundness of youth. The temple skin is thin and indented inward.
Hanging skin: The facial skin, losing all its facial fat support, will literally hang off the face, resulting in loose, paper-thin, crepey, and wrinkled skin.
Deep lines around the mouth: The skin folds around the mouth will deepen with weight loss and gravitational changes in the face.
Jowling: The lower face skin can hang over the jawline, creating a “jowl.”
Wrinkles and loose skin on your neck: The neck skin hangs and creases. The platysma muscle can form bands, resulting in a loss of the sharp angle of the neck. The jawline is no more.
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LIPO360 (also known as “circumferential liposuction”) removes fat from your tummy, bra roll, back fat, and sides. If you have fat deposits in these areas, LIPO360 can help you achieve a flattering, smoother shape from every angle.
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Amazing results of an ozempic face before after patient image using the MACS lift by Maryland Top Plastic Surgeon, Sheilah A. Lynch, MD
A MACS Lift will restore the youthful appearance of your lower face and neck by:
- Re-tightening the skin from your mid-face to the lower section down the jawline and underneath your chin. This will effectively erase the appearance of jowls, and other wrinkles, like those around your nose and mouth.
- Ozempic Face Correction addresses the muscular structure beneath your skin, making this procedure effective and giving you long-lasting results. Your lower face and neck will return to a normal, natural appearance.
- Combating the effects caused by sudden fat loss, creating laxity of the skin on your face and neck.
- The MACS lift has a shorter recovery. Because it can be completed with smaller, minimal incisions, patients experience less swelling after their procedure, which allows them to return to their usual schedules sooner than a traditional lower face or neck lift.
- Leave little to no scarring.
- Restores your naturally youthful look without looking like something was “done.”
After Ozempic Weight Loss Body Contouring
Advanced body contouring can be an additional treatment after your Ozempic weight loss to help you to achieve your desired body shape. Dr. Lynch will target areas of fat and excess skin that may not have responded well to the weight loss alone. Contouring surgery can address all areas of the body and face and helps with skin laxity, which often occurs after taking Ozempic.
The term OZEMPIC FACE refers to the changes in your facial / neck appearance that happen after rapid weight loss, especially when using medications such as Ozempic (semaglutide).
Ozempic face happens due to rapid facial fat loss, as sudden subcutaneous fat loss quickly reduces the face's fullness, making the skin less elastic and more prone to sagging, lines, and accelerated aging.
"Ozempic face" describes the hollow or sunken look resulting from the loss of facial fat, which makes the face /neck appear prematurely aged. The loss of fat, combined with skin laxity, leads to a gaunt appearance that many patients then ask, "Can Ozempic Face Be Reversed?"
Correcting Ozempic face has several options, both surgical and non-surgical, to reduce facial and neck sagging. “For many of my patients experiencing the loss of facial fullness and skin sagging from Ozempic, we can offer a combination of treatments to help restore their face and neck appearance,” says facial expert surgeon, Dr. Sheilah A. Lynch. Non-surgical options can temporarily restore your facial fullness, while surgical procedures will have a more dramatic, long-term effect, involving tightening the skin, adding back facial fat, and contouring the shape of your face and neck.
Learn more about your options, view our before-and-after images, and receive expert guidance on restoring your youthful face and neck.
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Ozempic face occurs when rapid weight loss causes sunken cheeks, hollow temples, a change in skin texture, and a gaunt overall appearance. The skin on the face and neck appears loose and saggy around the eyes and jawline due to the rapid reduction in facial fat.
This loss of fullness or volume also deepens fine lines and wrinkles, making the person look older than their actual age as well as unhealthy.
Symptoms include gauntness, sunken cheeks, wrinkles, and loose skin on the face and neck.
Actually, Ozempic face isn’t always a side effect of taking the medication; it's the result of rapid weight loss.
Ozempic face is not a medical term; it is also not limited to taking Ozempic. Other weight loss medications and surgeries can have the same effect.
Facial changes can also happen after having bariatric surgery; however, they’re often associated with weight loss medications like semaglutide and tirzepatide.
Unfortunately, it does not. While loose skin may tighten slightly over time, most patients will not see significant improvement without professional help.
For noticeable, effective, and long-lasting results, procedures such as cosmetic fillers, skin tightening and removal, face- neck lifts, and/or fat transfers back to the face are necessary.
During rapid weight loss, the fat pads in your face shrink due to weight-loss medication. You may notice your cheeks sinking, the facial folds running from your nose to your mouth deepening as lines begin to show, the temples looking hollow, and jowls can start to appear.
Because there is no fat to fill or prop the skin up, the skin starts to droop, causing the face to look older. To fix these issues, Dr. Lynch uses several treatments to restore the lost facial and neck support.
Some Non-Surgical Options We Offer Are:
- Cosmetic Fillers: Can be injected into areas of volume loss to re-plump or fill out and smooth wrinkles, folds, and hollow areas. Common places to restore the natural appearance include temples, cheeks, under eyes, around the nose, jawline, and chin.
- RF Microneedling: A treatment using radio-frequency, combined with tiny needles, to create controlled micro-injuries in the skin to induce a wound-healing response that boosts collagen and elastin in the patient's neck and face.
Surgical Options Can Include:
- Facelift: Dr. Lynch offers a variety of different facelift surgical procedures. One of these procedures, called a MACS LIFT, can help Ozempic Face.
- Lower Face / Neck Lift: These procedures are similar to a facelift but focused on the lower face and neck area. Depending on the severity of the hanging skin, a lower face/neck lift can also include the tightening of the platysma bands. Generally, a lower face/neck lift tightens loose neck skin and removes any excess fat under the chin/jawline.
Fat Grafting - Fat Transfer: After rapid weight loss, effects can appear on your lower face & neck. As your facial skin stretches, the jawline loses its straight contour, and facial lines appear between the nose and mouth. The most noticeable is the skin around the neck losing its elasticity and excess folds forming.
For major facial volume loss, fat grafting offers a longer term solution. When your own fat is injected into the depleted areas, such as your cheeks, temples, under eyes, etc., the results look soft, natural, and they are permanent.
Dr. Lynch can add fat (fat transfer-grafting) to replace the volume you've lost. Facial fat transfer or fat grafting restores attractiveness to your face by filling in cheek contours and adding volume at the chin and under the eyes.
It can treat mild sagging skin and reverse some changes in the face.
A MACS Lift will restore the youthful appearance of your lower face and neck by:
* Re-tightening the skin from mid-face to the lower section down the jawline and underneath your chin. It will effectively erase the appearance of jowls and other wrinkles, like those around your nose and mouth.
* Corrects the muscular structure beneath your skin, making this procedure effective and giving you long-lasting results. Your lower face and neck will return to a normal, natural appearance.
* This lift combats the effects caused by sudden fat loss, creating laxity of the skin on your face and neck.
* The MACS lift has a shorter recovery. Because it can be completed with smaller, minimal incisions, patients experience less swelling after their procedure, which allows them to return to their usual schedules sooner than a traditional lower face or neck lift.
*Leaves little to no scarring.
*Restores your naturally youthful look without looking like something was “done.”
If you are interested in learning about your options for treatment after weight loss surgery, both non-surgical and surgical, please call us today. We can help.