Body Lift

Lake Mary Body Lift

Lake Mary Plastic Surgery

Body lift surgery following massive weight loss removes excess sagging fat and skin and can help shape and tone your underlying tissue.

Following weight reduction surgery, or any substantial amount of weight loss, the skin and underlying tissues often lose their elasticity and cannot shrink to the reduced body size. As a result, skin that has been severely stretched now is unsupported: 

• Upper arms may sag and appear loose and full
• Breasts may flatten and hang with nipples pointed downward
• Abdominal area may extend around the sides and into the lower back area, resulting in an apron-like overhang
• Buttocks, groin and thighs can sag and cause hanging pockets of skin

What happens during body lift surgery?

The procedures necessary to achieve your goals will be defined along with a plan for the timing of these procedures. Plastic surgery procedures that may be recommended by your physician include: 

• Lower body lift: to correct sagging of the abdomen, buttocks, groin and outer thighs

• Breast Lift: to correct sagging, flattened breasts

• Arm Lift: to correct sagging of the upper arms

• Thigh Lift: to correct sagging of the inner, outer and mid thigh

During your consultation in our Lake Mary office, Dr. Shoukas will discuss your goals and expectations along with likely outcomes and any potential risks or complications.

Anesthesia:
Body contouring surgery is performed in the operating room under general anesthesia. This procedure is not prefomed in our Lake Mary office.

Procedure:
All body contouring procedures require incisions to remove excess skin. In many cases, these incisions may be extensive.

Incision length and pattern depend on the amount and location of excess skin to be removed, as well as personal preference and Dr. Shoukas’ surgical judgment.

Advanced techniques usually allow incisions to be placed in strategic locations where they can be hidden by most types of clothing, but this is not always the case.

Body contouring is often performed in stages. Your particular condition and goals, as well as Dr. Shoukas’ best judgment, will all influence how he defines a surgical plan.

While it may have taken you two years or more to lose all the excess weight, it may take equally as long for the results of your body contouring to be complete.

Body Lift
A complete lower body lift treats sagging buttocks, abdomen, waist, hips and outer thighs in one procedure or in staged procedures. Incision patterns vary, and may include a circumferential incision around the body to remove the “belt” of excess skin and fat.

Breast Lift
The incision patterns for lifting a woman’s sagging breasts will be determined based on the amount of excess skin to be removed.

These may include one or a combination of incisions in a circular pattern around the areola, in a line extending from the areola to the breast crease, and horizontally along the breast crease.

A breast implant also may be recommended to enhance the breast lift.

Arm Lift
Sagging skin in the upper arms is treated with an incision from the underarm area extending along the inside or back of the upper arm. Additional incisions on the arms may be necessary anywhere excess skin has formed sagging pockets.

The smoother, tighter contours that result from upper arm contouring are apparent almost immediately, although initially obscured by swelling and bruising. In addition, skin quality is dramatically improved in both appearance and texture.

Reshaping of the thighs is achieved through incisions in the groin that can extend downward to the knee along the inner portion of the thigh.

Improving contours of the outer thigh may require an incision extending from the groin around the hip. Through these incisions your plastic surgeon will tighten tissues for a smoother, better toned thigh.

Schedule your consultation with our office. Or call our Lake Mary Plastic Surgery team today 407-333-2518.