Excision of Turkey neck deformity by Dr. Lindsey
We started offering Excision of turkey jowls back in 2004. Its an easy, in office procedure, particularly useful for older guys with floppy neck skin. Learn about this in the short video:
hi I’m dr. Lindsay let me tell you about
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our excision of a turkey job procedure
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this is a procedure we do almost
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exclusively in men with large flaps of
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skin going down the neck I’ve been doing
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faceless it’s the mid-1990s I’ve done
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about 4,000 and somewhere around there
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early 2000s I had a series of women come
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in with older husbands who just had that
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typical man to the skin they went down
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their neck and these guys would say to
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me in there a way that you can just cut
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that skin out and I said to them yeah
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nobody does it that way people do I
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either a big facelift which often times
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makes men look effeminate or they do it
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z-plasty he goes back and forth and
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leaves what I think is an unsightly scar
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and nobody discuss out that in that
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waddle but after talking to a couple of
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guys and tellin nobody doesn’t that way
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and we tried out I did a couple for free
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and they turned out really good and they
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did a few of them for a limited price
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and they turned out well and then I’ve
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done 270 more of those and essentially
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what we do is we bring the patient in
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and isolate the flap of skin the waddle
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so to speak draw a small ellipse around
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that and then without any sedation just
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put a little numbing medicine in that
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and then we cut out that wattle
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conservative skins excision
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so the muscles that hold the neck
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together right together actually looking
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right at them and then sew the skin
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together in a tension-free fashion and
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you wear a head wrap for one night we’ve
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done a variety of patients that you the
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potential customer has almost certainly
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seen a few of ours on TV and we’ve done
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people from all walks of life there’s
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very little risk with this procedure the
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only risk is the scar going in the neck
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and by large other than two or three
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patients out of that 270 the scar has
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faded quite nicely
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this is an ideal operation for an older
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man where the flap of skin doesn’t want
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a bigger procedure and as we went to
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tolerate an incision on going up the
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neck so if this interests you please
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give us a call look at you and we have a
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number of before and after pictures and
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we can determine if you’re a candidate
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thank you
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