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I have lose a lot of weight, I have excess skin in my lower back(along with my stomach) but for the back part bothers me the most. Is there any hope to correcting this?
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Excess Back Skin After Weight Loss
If there is excess skin, it must be excised to improve the contour. A lower body lift will address the excess skin in your entire trunk, including the abdomen, lateral thighs, flanks, back, and upper buttocks. SOme of this extra skin and fat can be used as a flap to augment your buttocks at the same time. From El Paso.
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Plastic Surgery Options After Weight Loss
There is always hope but it depends on how tolerant you are of scars. Once the skin is hanging loose there is no way to significantly tighten it without an excisional procedure and that will always result in a scar. That is the trade off.
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Excess lower back skin after major weight loss--What to do?
If you wish only for the lower back skin excess to be dealt with, a lateral thigh/buttock lift will do the job. Then, after you complete your recovery and return to work, the loose abdominal skin that you didn't think bothered you as much will start to drive you wild! Maybe not, but probably, and then you will question the wisdom of saving the money you would have spent on a beltlift (lower body lift), since now you will spend somewhat more in total cost, as well as have to take off work...
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Tightening the loose lower back skin following weight loss. Given the explosion in the number of people opting for Bariatric Surgery to help reduce their weight, we have seen more and more patients who are happy with their weight loss but concerned about the excess sagging skin in many areas, including the lower back. SInce you also mentioned loose skin the the abdominal area (and an overhanging pannus is very common), I would suggest a "belt" lift that would address...
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Back lift
It may be useful to see a picture of the areas that bother you. If the loose skin is in the lower back, a lower body lift may help or just a direct lower back skin excision. A consultation with a Board Certified plastic surgeon would be a good place to start.
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Weight loss and lower back
You may be a good candidate for a lower body lift which will help lift the buttock region as well as it also works ont he abdomen.
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Excision of skin is the best option
From what you have described, it sounds like you would benefit from a circumferential belt lipectomy. A belt lipectomy (or lower body lift), is a great operation for correcting excess laxity and redundancy of skin along the anterior abdomen and lower posterior back.
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Circumferential belt lipectomy: all the way around the waist
Essentially what you need is a circumferential belt lipectomy. this accomplishes a tummy tuck, outer thigh, and buttock lift. In severe cases you may benefit from an upper back lift.
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Body lIft
Definitely yes! You could have just a back lift-either upper back or lower or continue around to front and combine that with a tummy tuck which would result in what we call a lower body lift.
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Massive weight loss
After massive weight loss it is common to have loose excess ski in the abdomen and circumferentially around the back as well.
A cicumferential lift tightens the skin of the abdomen and the back. The scar is designed to be covered within the bikini line.
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