The seagull incision in posterior cervical lift: indications, limitations, and surgical technique.

A seagull incision in the posterior scalp as used by us for the past 15 years for the correction of flaccidity in the posterior and anterior lower neck regions through a posterior cervical lift has been described in detail with its advantages, indications, and limitations. In our experience, the posterior cervical lift has little or no effect in correcting flaccidity in the upper anterior neck region, and therefore, this procedure should not be routinely performed in all cases of rhytidoplasty. One has to be highly selective in performing this procedure.