Neck & Décolletage

The neck, upper chest and shoulders are areas of the body that are very much affected by sun exposure. These areas often show signs of sun damage and early aging. In the mid-chest between the breasts (decolletage), damage is revealed by lines, wrinkles, and age spots, making your body look older. Without an invasive surgical procedure, regenerative therapy can give even the most delicate of skin the opportunity to heal and repair itself. Using your own fat, stem cells, umbilical cord stem cells and platelets, the physicians at Stem Cell Center give your body the chance to use its own devices to restore youthful, smooth skin.

Candidates

If sun damage has freckled the shoulders or chest, if the skin has been damaged by sunburn, if wrinkles have appeared, and if the skin has abnormal pigmentation such as age spots, you can be improved with our therapies.

Procedure

In consultation with our doctors, you will determine the areas of the neck, chest and shoulders that you wish to treat. You will decide where to liposuction the fat for your nanofat or  microfat injections. Nanofat, which contains stem cells, is liquified fat processed by a special procedure. If deep wrinkles need to be filled, microfat, which is whole fat cells, will be prepared. Platelet rich plasma (PRP) may be extracted by a blood draw and also prepared for reintroduction into the treatment sites. In conjunction with each other, these treatments target damaged or injured tissue and cells in order to heal your body. The procedure can be performed under local anesthesia with inhalation of nitrous oxide and oxygen or under sedation or general anesthesia in our adjacent operating suite.  

Depending on your situation, umbilical cord stem cells can be used to restore your skin with or without the use of PRP or your own stem cells. 

Results

The skin on your neck, chest and shoulders will gradually begin to show signs of restoration. As the PRP and stem cells activate healing in the tissue, skin cells will regenerate. Skin spots and sun damage will slowly begin to improve, and the skin will look more smooth, soft, and youthful.

Recovery

There is minimal recovery time related to the injections of stem cells and PRP in the chest and shoulders. The area needs to be shielded from the sun. Very little fat is needed or obtained from liposuction, so usually no garment is needed for compression.

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