Excess Skin on Pectoral and Abdominal Area After Weight Loss? (photo)

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Wow.  Amazing job.  You will need skin excision in addition to any residual fat and breast tissue.  This is a complex surgery and you should seek someone with body lifting and post-bariatric weight loss surgery experience.  Take a look at gallery below to see examples of the incisions in some of the cases we perform.  

Congratulations on your weight loss!  In reference to your question you would need removal of the loose skin of your chest with removal of the nipple and areola and sewing it back on to the newly contoured chest.

Dr. ES

Congrats on the weight loss - you have accomplished much. 


You are correct that exercise which indirectly and to a small degree fills out some of the skin by increasing underlying muscle bulk  cannot correct the redundancy that you have. The reason for this is that you can not exercise skin or return its lost elasticity and therefore you will need to reduce the excess skin for best results. There are a number of techniques available but most important is to choose your plastic surgeon wisely: make sure that he/she is board certified and experience with massive weight loss patients in addition to gynecomastia surgery.

 

   I would address the loose skin of your chest my removing the loose skin and repositioning the nipple areola complex.  Your abdomen appears to have much less skin from the pictures, but an exam would be necessary to make proper recommendations.  Find a board certified plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs many of these procedures every year.  Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA