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3 Week Post Op from Lower Body Lift/thigh Lift/ and Butt Lift. Not Happy w/ Butt.
asked 1 year ago by hal2000 in somewhere not happy
Latest answer by Marc Schneider, MD
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Tags: buttocks, thighs, weight loss, bad
Lost 150 pounds from lapband. My main concern was my bottom and thigh area & stressed to the dr. to make my bottom perky and thighs very tight. My results have turned out to be a very LONG flat butt that has that "Mommy Butt" look to it & I don't have any children. I also have a very deep indention at the top of my butt crease that the Dr. said will go away, but I don't see how that is possible. Am I supposed to be in a compression garment for butt area and he told me to sleep on my back, HELP!
4 answers to 3 Week Post Op from Lower Body Lift/thigh Lift/ and Butt Lift. Not Happy w/ Butt.
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Results
Wow a 150lbs! Congratulations thats fantastic. Your question is understandable so lets consider the anatomy. When a patient is morbidly obese, the fat cells expand in size AND increase in number. The skin has to accomodate this increase in volume and it does this by stretching and increasing in skin cell numbers. Now remember, if you take a given area of skin, that area has a certain elasticity and it also has a physical property called stress relaxation. This means that if you...
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Marc Schneider, MD
Fort Myers Plastic Surgeon
Fort Myers Plastic Surgeon
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Buttock lift
After massive weight loss, the tissues deflate. Once the buttock;s are lifted, you may be a candidate for autologous fat injection to inflate them a bit.
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Expectations after a body lift
First I would like to commend you on your impressive weight loss. After losing 150 pounds your skin, having been stretched out, may not have the elasticity to give a really tight result. Also, a careful surgeon will try to avoid over-tightening at all costs. The last thing you want is for your wounds to open when you sit down or begin to exert yourself.
One of the things I do with my body lifts in appropriate patients is to use some of the redundant lower back skin...
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Bruce Genter, MD
Abington Plastic Surgeon
Abington Plastic Surgeon
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Expectation mismatch in cosmetic surgery
Unfortunately, after a 150 lb weight loss, no surgeon can make you "tight" or "perky" because your skin elasticity will never return to normal and allow that. You should hopefully have understood that before so you wouldn't be unhappy now. Work closely with your doctor and be patient with the healing, but tight and perky were never a real possibility.
