In my practice I see patients who come for revision abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) from across Australia and from overseas. The reasons they come are not all the same, but one stands out far more than any other. The first operation was the wrong operation for the amount of loose skin
If you have been through substantial weight loss and are left with loose skin all the way around your midsection, a belt lipectomy (body lift) may be one of the body contouring procedures worth discussing. This surgical procedure removes excess skin and fat circumferentially around the lower torso, taking in
After major weight loss, loose skin tends to settle right around the middle of the body. Not just the front of the abdomen, but the hips, the flanks, the lower back, the mons, and the upper buttocks as well. A body lift (belt lipectomy) is the operation I use to
Losing a large amount of weight is a real achievement. Whether you reached your goal through bariatric surgery, weight loss medications, or sustained changes to diet and exercise, the effort involved is considerable. Many of the patients I see in my practice have lost 30, 50, or more than 70
Why loose skin develops on the abdomen and back after weight loss When you lose a large amount of weight, the skin that was stretched over your abdomen and back for years often does not shrink back to fit your new shape. The skin has lost some of its elasticity
After significant weight loss, the surgery I perform removes excess skin and reshapes the abdomen, trunk and limbs. Body contouring procedures such as abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), body lift (belt lipectomy), brachioplasty (arm lift), and thighplasty (thigh lift) all require you to wear a compression garment afterwards. One of the most
After major weight loss, the abdomen is often left with loose skin that hangs in both directions, down towards the pubis and across the waist. A standard tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) removes skin in one direction only, from top to bottom. For some post-weight-loss patients that is not enough. When there
After significant weight loss, two problems often sit on top of each other in the same part of the body. The first is loose abdominal skin that hangs in both a vertical and a horizontal direction. The second is a weakness in the abdominal wall at the navel, an umbilical
Most people picture an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) as a single horizontal incision running from one hip to the other. After major weight loss, one direction is sometimes not enough. When loose skin hangs both up and down and side to side, a hip-to-hip incision on its own cannot take up
Every abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) leaves a scar. There is no way around that. When I remove excess skin from the abdomen, I am making an incision, and an incision heals as a scar. What I can influence is where the scar sits, the surgical technique used to close the wound,