Body Contouring After Massive Weight Loss

Surgical contouring to achieve realistic results

People who have lost large amounts of weight, often following bariatric surgery, typically have substantial excess skin. While the fat shrinks away and muscles tone with diet and exercise, the skin is so stretched from years of obesity that it loses the ability to “snap back”. The fibers that attach the skin to the underlying muscle are stretched and torn with excess weight, so the skin is only loosely attached to the muscle. This is why people with substantial weight loss can do hours of crunches, for example, and never reduce their hanging belly skin.

Body contouring after massive weight loss is performed to remove this excess skin and help a person’s skin conform more to their underlying new shape. The areas usually addressed with surgery are the abdomen, thighs, back, arms, and breasts. The vast majority of the time the procedures are performed in a way that allows for outpatient surgery.

It is important to have realistic expectations with this type of surgery. Patients tend to be extremely pleased with the results when they expect to lose the hanging skin, and understand that the goal is substantial improvement and not youthful perfection.

Our body contouring surgeons customize each procedure according to your priorities and desires.

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