A double chin is the one feature people learn to manage rather than address. You angle the camera higher, you find the scarf that helps, you delete the photo someone took from below. And unlike most things on that list, submental fullness often has nothing to do with your weight. It can run in families, it can persist through every pound you lose, and no amount of chin exercises will move it. KYBELLA® is a series of small injections of deoxycholic acid, a substance your body already makes to break down dietary fat. Placed beneath the chin, it destroys the fat cells it contacts, and destroyed cells cannot come back or store fat again.
Daily lifestyle factors, coastal humidity, sun exposure, and local environmental stressors can all influence skin elasticity and overall facial composition over time, making submental fullness feel even more prominent. Patients facing these concerns have historically had two options: live with it, or drive north for a surgical consultation about liposuction under the chin. Our KYBELLA® in Barnegat, NJ adds a third. It is a 30-minute appointment with no incisions, no anesthesia, and no sutures, delivered in a series so the change arrives gradually enough that colleagues notice your profile rather than your procedure.
A distinct pad of fat beneath the chin that softens the boundary between the jaw and the neck, which is the specific finding this treatment is approved to address.
Submental fat that stayed put through diet, training, and weight loss, often because its distribution is inherited rather than driven by what you eat.
Loss of definition where the jaw should meet the neck, which reads clearly in side profile and on video calls even when the front-facing view looks fine.
Gradual submental heaviness that develops in your 40s and beyond as tissue settles, in patients whose skin still has enough elasticity to retract as the fat is reduced.
Our office is conveniently located just 20 minutes outside of LBI and less than 10 minutes away from Lacey, Waretown, Forked River, Lanoka Harbor, Bayville and other surrounding towns.