What Is New with Bodylifts?
Loose skin after massive weight loss has plagued patients for decades. This has become more relevant since the advent of the surgical massive weight loss procedures.
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, a Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, is an expert in body contouring procedures and body lift procedures. A body lift involves removal of excess skin by way of an incision that extends around the body. Body lift surgeries are frequently necessary after massive weight loss, aging, or as a correction for previous surgeries. There are two types of body lifts – a lower body lift and an upper body lift.
The lower body lift (also referred to as belt lipectomy) is a surgery that involves removal of loose skin by way of an incision that goes around the waist and helps tighten the abdomen, sides, lower back, outer thighs, and butt.
A patient may need a tummy tuck to take care of the skin and abdominal wall laxity in the front of the body. However, some patients may have loose skin on the back, buttocks, or lateral (outer) thighs as well. This is referred to as a posterior lower body lift. The tummy tuck and the posterior lower body lift performed at the same time is a lower body lift.
An upper body lift involves lifting the tissues of the upper body, often including a breast lift and upper back lift or bra-line back lift. In this fashion, both the chest and the upper back can be improved in those patients who have deflation and volume loss as well as loose skin in those areas. The bra line back lift is performed by few plastic surgeons. The breast lift can be combined with breast augmentation procedures as well.
Patients who typically undergo removal of this skin after massive weight loss can be left looking boxy or dumpy or square or straight up and down. Their buttocks can look flat and short. The waist can look large and the hips can look dented. Dr. Kenneth Hughes can create a much more favorable physique and silhouette by utilizing unique skin and fat resection techniques. Dr. Hughes also contours the body with liposuction and fat grafting techniques including Brazilian buttlift or BBL as well as implant options for volume restoration, including butt implants.
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