This is a patient that has lost a total of 170lbs. She lost 100lbs. on her own and another 70lbs. following a gastric sleeve. Her weight had stabilized but her biggest issue was the prominent skin hanging on the inner portion of her arms. She underwent bilateral brachioplasty which involved suctioning the circumference of the arm and removing the redundant skin on the inside surface of the arm. She is shown preoperatively and about 2-3 months postoperative. Her scars are completely healed. They are asymptomatic. The swelling has completely resolved. The contour is much better. All in all, she got a really nice result.
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This is a healthy lady that has had multiple pregnancies. She has stretched out musculature from her pregnancies. She did not have an abdominal pannus but her mons was stretched out and in a lower position. She had prominent flank collections resulting in a square shaped torso. The flank collections tended to hide the superior aspect of her buttock. She had prominent C depressions on the superior lateral aspect of her buttocks. She underwent an abdominoplasty with suctioning of her flanks and trochanters. She has fat grafting to improve the contour of her buttocks and diminish the depth of the C depressions. Her post op pictures are done two months out from her surgery. The square shaped torso contour has been converted to more an “S” shape which is a more feminine shape. The fullness in the trochanters is improved. She has a more attractively shaped abdomen and a smaller waist. With time, the remaining swelling in the flanks and abdomen will continue to improve.
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This is a young lady that lost 125lbs. with diet, exercise, and weight loss medications. She had circumferential skin and fat and a diastasis of the abdominal muscles with cascading piled up skin across her buttocks and thighs. She underwent a belt lipectomy with circumferential removal of skin and fat and liposuction. She had repair of her diastasis in the midline with the abdominal wall. Post op pictures are three months out. The scars are flat and soft. They are still bright red. This will improve with time. All in all, she has gotten a really nice result from her surgery. This has improved her contour in the flanks, buttocks, and abdomen. She is very pleased with the surgery. She is planning to do some other contouring on the medial and lateral thighs in the spring.
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This is a young lady who has had 3 children. She is a workout person and despite all of her efforts was unable to improve the appearance of her torso specifically her abdomen. She has a protuberant rounded abdomen from her muscles being stretched. She had loose skin that extended all the way around the torso. An abdominoplasty alone would not have addressed the loose skin across her flanks and buttocks. She underwent a belt lipectomy which tightened the loose, abdominal muscles, flattened her abdomen, and also tightened the loose skin that extended around the torso. This also included suctioning of the flanks that gave her a more feminine backside shape. She had an uneventful recovery and has gotten a very nice result.
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This is a middle-aged female who has had a gastric sleeve some years ago. She lost from 280lbs. to 190lbs. She has no medical problems. She wanted improvement in her abdomen and flanks. She underwent a belt lipectomy which incorporates the looseness of the abdominal wall and removal of all the redundant skin around the circumference of her abdomen. The scar is placed low so it can be hidden. It elevates, triangulates, and flattens the mons. In addition to resecting excess skin across the flanks this area is suctioned to give a more concave contour. The goal is to create a backside that is “S” shaped as opposed to “B” shaped. Before and three month post op pictures are shown. She has gotten about a good as a result as you could get. She has a very well defined waist. The surgery has elevated and rounded her bottom. Suctioning of the abdomen has created the normal abdominal contour.
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This is a 35-year-old lady that complained of the inner thighs rubbing together. Also, she had excessive hanging skin in this area. It also stayed moist in the warm summer months because of the redundant skin in the groin and medial thigh area. She noted that her shorts and jeans would rub together when she walked. She underwent a medial thigh lift. We have completely eliminated the redundant tissue in the medial thigh area. Now the thighs do not rub together. Also, we have eliminated the excessive wetness of the medial thigh skin. As you can see on both the anterior and the posterior views that her thighs look much improved.
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This is a healthy male who wished some improvement in his truncal contour. The circumference of his abdomen at the level of the umbilicus is 40.5”. He wanted it around 36”. We carried him to the operating room and did liposuction of his lower abdomen and his flanks. Shown are before and about 2-3 months post op. The biggest change is the large flank collections on either side which are basically gone. His measurement around the circumference of his abdomen at the umbilicus is now 36”. He has gotten a nice result. This deep fat that forms the flank collections once removed will usually not come back.
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This is a 45YO lady that desires some liposuction of the waist and some fat grafting of her buttocks. She is flattened in the buttocks and has no shaped to the waist area. As you can see from the posterior view, her waist is now shaped up quite nicely. There is now fullness in her buttocks and a better shape. On the side view you can see how much the buttocks has been filled out with fat grafting. She now fills out her blue jeans and pants. This procedure is done through outpatient.
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This is a 32YO lady from Bainbridge, Georgia that desired some cosmetic improvement of her waist and buttocks area. She has a moderate amount of fat in the flank area. She has tried dieting but could not get any significant decrease in the waist circumference. She noticed that her pants seemed to ride high because of the bulging in the love handle area.
She underwent SAFE liposuction of the love handle area and abdomen with fat grafts to the buttocks. As you can see, there is marked improvement in the shape of the waist and buttocks.
Fat grafting is where we remove fat from one area, process it, and inject it into an area that needs some more projection. This helps improve contouring of the body. Usually, about half of the fat will live permanently. The fat does not live is reabsorbed by the body.
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Shown are pre and post op photographs for a brachioplasty. She had a prior breast reduction and still had some redundant tissue on the lateral chest following the reduction. The brachioplasty reduced the circumference of the upper arm and corrected the bat wings and actually tightened the loose skin on the lateral chest. This is one of several ways to do a brachioplasty. It has the advantage of tightening the lateral chest which is beneficial on patients who have lost a bunch of weight.
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