About the treatment
Why the area under the jaw gets its own treatment
The pad of fat beneath the chin sits in its own compartment, and it behaves as though it were not part of the rest of you. People who have lost weight everywhere else routinely find it unchanged, because where your body chooses to store and release fat is set by genetics rather than by effort.
The treatment works locally, on that compartment alone. Ultrasound at a frequency chosen to affect fat and nothing around it destabilises the cell walls; a laser applied at the same time encourages the released contents outwards. From there your lymphatic system carries them away over the following days, which is why the change appears gradually rather than on the table.
Nothing is injected, nothing is cut and nothing is frozen. You lie back at our Wynford Drive clinic in North York while a warm handpiece is worked under the jaw, and there is nothing afterwards to explain to anybody.
Why people book it
Genetics, a desk, and a camera held too low
Nobody comes in talking about a fat compartment. They come in talking about photographs, and about three things that have made this more noticeable than it used to be.
It runs in families
If a parent had it at your age, it is not a verdict on your discipline. This is the most common thing we end up reassuring people about, and it is also why diet and the gym so often fail to touch it.
A working day spent looking down
Screens at desk height and phones held at your lap keep the head forward and the chin tucked for hours. That does not create fat, but it does shorten and soften the line between jaw and neck, so what is there reads as more.
Video calls put you at the worst angle
A laptop on a desk photographs you from below, and a front camera at arm’s length does the same. Most people did not know how their jawline looked from there until working life put it on a screen in front of them all day.
The first question
Fat, skin, muscle or jaw?
Four different things produce a soft jawline and they look similar in a mirror. Only one of them is what this treatment addresses, so this is the assessment we do before anything else.
Fat
Pinchable, soft, and it moves when you press it. It sits in the same place whether your head is up or down. This is the one we can reduce, and it is the most common finding by a distance.
Loose skin
Common after weight loss and with age. It gathers when the chin is lowered and there is little to pinch. Reducing fat underneath skin that has already lost its elasticity can make the looseness more obvious, not less, so we say so first.
A muscle band
Two vertical cords that stand out when you tense the neck. That is the platysma muscle, not fat, and no amount of fat reduction changes it. It is worth knowing before you spend anything.
The shape of the jaw itself
A naturally set-back chin gives a shallow angle between neck and jawline whatever is or is not sitting under it. We will tell you if that is what we are looking at, because it is outside what any non-surgical treatment can address.
Indications
What is it good for?
A defined pocket of fat under the chin, in someone whose weight is reasonably stable.
The same technology treats larger areas of the body as laser lipo cavitation, and where the problem is tone rather than fat, muscle sculpting is the relevant page. Everything available in north Toronto is on our Toronto clinic page.
Being straight with you
What we will and will not promise
A course, and then a month of waiting
Six to ten appointments about a week apart, and the honest assessment comes roughly a month after the last one. The clearing continues long after the final session, so judging it the week you finish undersells your own result.
Your weight has to hold
Cells destroyed here do not come back, but the ones next to them can still enlarge. If your weight climbs meaningfully afterwards, the area will follow. We would rather say that now than have the conversation in a year.
Photographs, not the mirror
You see this area every day, which makes gradual change almost impossible to perceive. Take a profile shot at the same distance in the same light before you start. It is the only measure we trust, and it settles most arguments.
It will not give you someone else’s jawline
What is underneath is bone, and it stays where it is. The realistic outcome is your own profile with less sitting under it, which is a better goal than a picture from a magazine.
Getting ready
Pre & post treatment
Water is the single instruction that matters, before and after. Everything the treatment releases has to be transported away, and that is fluid work.
Before each appointment
- Drink properly for two days beforehand, not just on the morning. This is the part clients skip and then wonder about their results.
- Eat something light first. Arriving hungry is the usual cause of feeling lightheaded afterwards.
- Come with a bare neck — no cream, no oil, no make-up below the jaw.
- Tell us about thyroid conditions, implants or anything metal in the area, and about pregnancy, before you book.
- Wear something with an open neckline so the area is easy to reach.
Over the following week
- Warmth and mild pinkness under the chin for an hour or so. Occasionally a little tenderness the next day.
- Keep the water going all week. The clearing is happening for days after you leave the building.
- No sauna, steam room or hot tub for 48 hours.
- Go easy on alcohol in the day or two afterwards — it works directly against the process you have just paid for.
- Keep the appointments spaced as booked. Compressing the schedule does not speed anything up.
Results
Double chin removal before and after
A You Glow Aesthetics client photographed from the same angle before and after a course. The line from chin to neck is the thing to look at, rather than the face above it.
Results differ with how much fat was there, skin elasticity, how many sessions are completed, fluid intake and whether weight stays steady. Change usually begins to show a few weeks in and keeps developing after the course ends.
Also on Wynford Drive
Treatments that work well around this one
- Laser Lipo Cavitation in Toronto — the same technology on larger areas of the body
- Muscle Sculpting in Toronto — when the issue is tone rather than fat
- Red Light Therapy in Toronto — supports firmness in the skin over the treated area
- Hydro Facial in Toronto — frequently booked in the same visit
- Double chin removal brand-wide — how the treatment works across all our clinics
