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What Kind of Plastic Surgery is Common After Massive Weight Loss?

asked 11 months ago by anon
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
Question viewed 166 times
Tags: massive weight loss, options, surgery

What kind of surgery is recommended for extra skin on the legs and stomach that didn't go away after loosing a lot of weight?

4 answers to What Kind of Plastic Surgery is Common After Massive Weight Loss?

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What Kind of Plastic Surgery is Common After Massive Weight Loss?

Regarding": "What kind of surgery is recommended for extra skin on the legs and stomach that didn't go away after loosing a lot of weight?" Reshaping the saggy body left after massive weight loss is slowly becoming an areas of interest and sub specialty within Cosmetic Plastic Surgery. Since every person loses weight differently massive weight loss leaves different sagging and deflated deformities in different people. The most common deformity is sagging skin of... more
Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon
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Massive weight loss procedures

Each patient that loses greater than 100 lbs( massive weight loss) is different. For the abdomen this may mean a tummy tuck vs a fleur-de-lis tummy tuck, vs a circumferential procedure with or without a fleur-de-lis. As for the legs I consider them like the arms. It can be treated by straighte line excsision in the medial arm or posterior arm and/or extended into the axilla or lateral chest.
Steven Wallach, MD

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon
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Loose skin after massive weight loss

That would depend on the amount of excess skin and exactly where it is. For the torso it could be abdominoplasty, extended abdominoplasty (where the incision extends onto the back) or belt lipectomy (where the incision goes all the way around, 360 degrees). Belt lipectomy tightens the thigh skin but if that tightening is insufficient an inner/upper thigh lift can be performed, usually at a second operation. The most important factors before surgery are proper surgical planning and waiting... more
Aaron Stone, MD

Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
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Common surgery after massive weight loss

Facelift, necklift, brachioplasty, breast lift/ reduction, bodylift or tummy tuck, medial thighplasty are the most common procedures. It really depends on what bothers the patient the most after weight loss.
Richard Dale Reynolds, MD

El Paso Plastic Surgeon

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