About the treatment
Genetics put it there, and effort will not take it away
Of everything we treat, this is the one people are hardest on themselves about. They have lost weight, they train, they eat sensibly, and the pad under the chin has not moved a millimetre. The conclusion they reach is that they have not tried hard enough, and it is wrong.
Where your body stores fat and the order in which it releases it are inherited, not earned. The submental pad sits in a compartment of its own and frequently sits out the entire process. If a parent had it at your age, that is the explanation, and no amount of additional discipline changes the instruction.
Which is what this treatment is for. Ultrasound destabilises the fat cells in that one small area and a laser encourages the contents out; your lymphatic system carries them away over the following days. No incision, no injection, no anaesthetic. You lie back at our Timberlands Drive clinic in Red Deer while a warm handpiece works under the jaw, and then you drive home.
Before we start
Four questions we work through first
This area is small enough that getting the assessment wrong wastes a whole course. We would rather spend the first appointment on these.
Is it actually fat?
Soft and pinchable, sitting in the same place whether your head is up or down, means fat. Skin that gathers when you lower your chin is elasticity. A pair of cords standing out when you tense your neck is muscle. Only the first responds here.
What is the skin over it doing?
Once volume comes out, the skin has to take up the slack. Where there is still some spring in it, it does. Where there is not, reducing what sits underneath can read as more looseness rather than less, and that belongs in this conversation.
Has your weight settled?
A few steady months in either direction. Treating while everything else is still shifting makes the result impossible to attribute to anything.
What are you comparing against?
A profile photograph taken now, at a fixed distance, in ordinary light. Without it you will be judging the most-looked-at part of your own face against a memory, which nobody does accurately.
Why here
Three practical things about doing this in Red Deer
A short course of weekly appointments in a small city with a large catchment raises its own set of questions.
Six to ten visits, about a week apart
Roughly two months of your calendar. For anyone driving in from the county it is worth blocking out properly at the start rather than booking one at a time and losing the rhythm.
Seven days a week helps
We are open every day, Sunday afternoons included. That matters more for a weekly course than for a one-off, particularly on a rotation or with a drive at either end.
Dry air means drinking more than you think
Your body does the clearing and it needs water for it. At this altitude in air this dry you lose fluid steadily without ever registering thirst, which makes hydration a real variable here rather than generic advice.
Winter is the quieter season for it
Nothing about the treatment requires it, but a course run between November and March tends to be the one that finishes, and the results arrive in time for spring.
Indications
What is it good for?
A pad of fat beneath the chin with a definable edge, and the jawline it is currently blurring.
The same technology treats larger areas as laser lipo cavitation, and firmness in the skin itself responds better to red light therapy. Everything available in Red Deer is on our Red Deer clinic page.
The timeline
When anything actually shows
Under a chin, patience is harder than anywhere else on the body, because you check it in every mirror you pass. Here is the honest schedule.
The first three weeks
Nothing visible, and this is where people lose faith. Clearing is under way and it is happening at a cellular scale. Do not take comparison photographs yet; you will read noise as failure.
Weeks four to eight
The profile starts to change, usually noticed by somebody else before you notice it yourself. This is the point at which the photograph you took at the start begins to earn its keep.
A month past the last session
The honest assessment point. Clearing does not stop when the appointments do, so judging it on the day of your final visit sells your own result short.
Getting ready
Pre & post treatment
Short lists, and fluid intake is the line on each of them that changes your outcome.
Before each appointment
- Start on the water two days ahead, not two hours ahead.
- Eat something light first — arriving hungry is the usual reason anyone feels off.
- Nothing on the throat: no cream, no oil, no foundation below the jaw, and leave necklaces at home.
- Tell us about thyroid conditions, swollen glands, implants or pregnancy at the point of booking.
- An open collar helps — the handpiece needs room under the jaw.
Through the following week
- Warmth and mild pinkness under the chin for an hour, sometimes a little tenderness the day after.
- Keep drinking all week. Disposal begins as you leave and continues for days.
- Two days clear of sauna, steam and hot tubs.
- Go light on alcohol for a day or two; it pulls against the process.
- Leave the intervals as booked. Pulling an appointment earlier buys nothing.
Results
Double chin removal before and after
A You Glow Aesthetics client, shot twice from the same position. Trace the edge between jaw and throat; the face above it is not what the comparison is about.
How much anyone gets depends on the amount of fat present, the elasticity of the skin over it, how many appointments are completed, fluid intake and whether weight holds steady. Cells destroyed do not return, but the ones beside them can still enlarge.
Also on Timberlands Drive
Treatments that work well around this one
- Laser Lipo Cavitation in Red Deer — the same technology on larger areas of the body
- Butt Lift in Red Deer — contouring and firming the lower body
- Red Light Therapy in Red Deer — supports firmness in the skin over the area
- Hydro Facial in Red Deer — regularly added onto the same appointment
- Double chin removal brand-wide — how the treatment works across all our clinics
