Body Contouring Procedures to Create Your Dream Body

After massive weight loss, many people are left with loose, unsightly skin hanging all over their bodies. Plastic surgery offers excellent solutions to this problem. There are several different surgeries that can be performed separately as needed or combined into one long surgical procedure, called a Body Contouring Sanford FL lift, if so desired. These include arm lifts, thigh lifts, tummy tucks, butt lifts, and breast lifts.

Arm Lift

Arm lift surgery provides the benefits of getting rid of hanging skin from the upper arms. It allows people who have just lost a ton of weight a chance to finally see the fruits of all their hard labor, because the arms finally start to take a small, firm shape.

The arm lift procedure does have one major drawback and that is long, permanent scars along the underside of the upper arms. For those who have so much sagging skin this trade off may be worth the new tighter looking arms.

Thigh Lift

Thigh lifts involve removing excess skin from the thighs and can be performed as either a medial or a bilateral lift. The bilateral concentrates on toning up the front and outside of the upper leg while the medial thigh lift is great for getting rid of lots of extra skin and firming up the inner thighs. The incisions are made along the hip bone down to the groin or just around the groin area, depending on the Body Contouring Sanford FL.

The benefits to all types of thigh lifts are that massive weight loss patients can finally get toned, thin looking legs but the drawback again is the scars. Fortunately, these scars are in less conspicuous spots and are almost always hidden by pants, bikinis or underwear.

Tummy Tuck

The tummy tuck can remove all the layers of extra skin in the torso area. Incisions are made along the hip and pubic bones, the skin is loosened from the muscles, the muscles are tightened, liposuction is performed if desired and the excess skin is cut off and the remaining skin is sewn back together. The result is tighter, firmer abdominal and no more loose skin.

Butt Lift

This surgery targets the buttocks and the lower back and any sagging skin left there from massive weight loss. This is often an area where the skin seems to overlap itself and creates many ugly bulges. A butt lift removes extra skin from the region and pulls it tight and forms a more shapely back and buttocks.

Breast Lift

After losing a lot of weight many women are left with heavily sagging breasts. The surgical answer to this problem is a breast lift. This surgery involves an incision under the breast and around the areola. The extra skin is excised, the areola and nipple are repositioned for a natural appearance and the skin is sutured together underneath the newly shaped breasts.

Sometimes this procedure is not enough to create attractive looking cleavage so a breast augmentation that includes the insertion of breast implants is often paired with the breast lift.