Excess Lower Back Skin from Weight Loss. How to Correct It?

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.

It's always difficult to make a treatment recommendation without pictures or a physical examination. In this case, your history suggests significant amounts of redundant abdominal and back tissue.Under these circumstances, you would probably be an excellent candidate for a lower body lift. This procedure would remove excess abdominal and back tissue. It would also lift your buttocks in an upward direction.If you're considering lower body lift surgery, it's important to consult a board certified plastic surgeon with experience in this area. This surgeon should be able to formulate a treatment plan that addresses your anatomic findings while achieving your aesthetic goals.

Congratulations on your weight loss! After massive weight loss, it is not uncommon to have excess skin and fat of the lower back. To remove excess skin and fat of the lower back, you may require a posterior lower body lift. This would entail an incision from one hip to the top of the buttock, and extending to the other hip. Your resulting scar follows the top of the buttocks. Typically, the scar is underneath your belt line. Through this upper buttock incision, excess skin and fat of the lower back is removed and the buttocks are raised. If you are concerned about a small buttock, this excess fat can be reinserted. To augment the buttock, the fat can be injected as a fat transfer to the buttock or can be rotated as a flap on top of the buttock.
If your abdomen bothers you, the posterior body lift can be extended anteriorly. The resulting surgery is a 360 lower body lift. This procedure would not only eliminate lower back skin and fat, but it would also eliminate excess skin and fat of bilateral hips and abdomen.
I hope this answered your question regarding the removal of excess lower back skin after weight loss.
Good luck with your weight loss journey. If you have any questions, please contact my office. Sincerely, Dr. Katzen