Will a Body lift, Extended Tummy Tuck & side Thigh Lift help with cellulite & sagging of skin on my upper thighs & buttocks?

In my opinion you are a perfect candidate for an Extended Tummy tuck I  order to get rid of the saggy skin on your abdomen and the extension further back, Will help to make a lift to your lateral thighs and help to smooth out the area. Muscle repair will help to create a smaller waist, improving your already beautiful body shape.  Some liposuction to the lower back, outer thighs and banana rolls will help to smoothen the surface of those areas and also to harvest some fat to transfer to your but and fill in some of the deeper lumps and dents.Be encouraged. You will love your beautiful result. Dr. Cardenas

Hello, and thank you for your Question regarding will a body lift, extended tummy tuck, and side thigh lift help with cellulite and sagging skin of your upper thigh and buttocks. Thank you for your history and your pictures.
Let’s analyze your pictures for specific areas. In analyzing your abdomen, you have excess skin and fat of the lower abdomen with lower abdominal stretch marks. In analyzing your hips, you have a left hip scar surgery, and a soft-tissue indentation around that scar, as well as skin and fat of the bilateral lateral hips. In analyzing your buttocks, you have a significant amount of cellulite and hanging skin. Though subjective, your buttock volume appears “adequate.” Upon analyzing your outer thighs, you have excess skin and fat. The best surgery to have would be a 360-degree circumferential lower body lift.
The extended tummy tuck will not address your hips, outer thighs, or buttocks. The side thigh lift will not address your abdomen or your buttocks. Therefore, the 360-degree circumferential lower body lift is your best option because it will address the excess skin and fat of your abdomen, outer thighs, hips, and buttocks. Additionally, the 360-degree circumferential body lift will plicate the rectus abdominis muscle and lift the mons. If you do anything short of the 360-degree circumferential lower body lift, these four body part areas will not be addressed. Of course, you could stage these procedures by having the extended tummy tuck performed and then, several months later, having the posterior body lift. However, these procedures are usually performed together. To address these four areas effectively, consider undergoing a 360 circumferential lower body lift. I hope I have answered your questions about whether a body lift, extended tummy tuck, and side thigh lift can help with cellulite and sagging skin in your upper thigh and buttocks. Thank you for your history and your pictures. If you have any more questions regarding the lower body lift, 360 circumferential lower body lift, belt lipectomy, belt abdominoplasty, or belt dermolipectomy, please contact an experienced plastic surgeon. Since the body lift is a big procedure, please seek an experienced, board-certified plastic surgeon with significant experience performing the lower body lift. Do your research.  Make sure they have performed at least 150 circumferential lower body lift surgeries and have the before and after pictures to prove it.  Carefully examine their before and after pictures and check their reviews on RealSelf.   If you cannot find an experienced, lower body lift surgeon in your neighborhood, consider traveling out of state if you must. Sincerely, Dr. Katzen, MD, MBA, FACS, FICS, FASMBS (President of the American Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons, certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Fellow of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American College of Surgery, and International College of Surgery and member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery, American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery RealSelf Hall of Fame, and RealSelf Doctor Advisory Board for Medical Review and Consumer Panel.)

Thank you for your question and for sharing your photos. A consultation would help determine which of the following procedures is the right one for you:1)
Traditional tummy tuck: Reduces a great amount of skin laxity,
tightens the abdominal wall muscles and keeps the incision hidden in the
underwear line.2) An extended tummy tuck: Same as a tummy tuck, but helps to reduce more skin laxity around the flanks.3)
A corset tummy tuck: Adds a vertical scar and breast fold scar, but
reduces a significant amount of vertical skin laxity in addition to the
horizontal skin laxity and creates the most hour-glass type figure.
Downside is more visible scar4) A belt lipectomy (or lower body
lift) helps lift the outer thighs and buttock in addition to the
benefits of an extended tummy tuck.You may need some subcision and lipofilling of the dimples to provide the best results and address these concerns.I would recommend visiting with a board certified
plastic
surgeon who can spend time with you to explain the different options in
more detail.

  To really improve the dimpling in the buttocks and the thighs the posterior body lift probably helps the most.  However, fat transfer to the buttocks can help a great deal as well.Kenneth Hughes, MDLos Angeles, CA

Body lift is a great procedure to smooth out excess skin and wrinkles, lift the buttocks and thighs. It's one of my favorite procedures as the results are great. Your body is perfect for a lift. The scar should be placed very low so that it's imperceptible when wearing underwear. Good Luck!!

It is hard to say with 100% certainty if you are a good candidate for a body lift procedure using photographs alone. However, it does SEEM like you would be a reasonable candidate.  A body lift is similar to a tummy tuck but the incision goes 360 degrees around to both tighten the tummy and also to lift/auto-augment the buttocks.  This procedure will help somewhat with the contour problems/cellulite on the lateral thighs but will not help with the inner thighs at all.  It may improve the posterior thighs slightly, but a significant change is not likely.  An alternative would in fact be an extended tummy tuck/lateral thigh lift and fat transfer to the buttocks could be considered to lift and improve the volume but it takes quite a bit of fat to do this--upwards of a liter in some patients! Any residual cellulite could potentially be improved with a separate operation such as Cellulaze or Vasersmooth.  I would recommend having an evaluation with a board certified/eligible plastic surgeon with experience in body contouring surgery.  I personally would suggest breaking this up into 2 surgeries for safety sake.