Plastic Surgery and Body Contouring After Massive Weight Loss

Some are able to lose weight on their own. Others chose weight loss surgery. Bariatric Surgery and Gastric Bypass Surgery are surging in popularity. With massive weight loss in a short time, skin often does not shrink well. Body contouring plastic surgery can help deal with this extra skin and give such individuals a new image after losing weight.

During weight loss, Body Shaping Compression Garments can contour and shape lessening the stress of evolving tissues until they stabilize for surgery.

This patient achieved her massive weight loss with dieting and exercise. Loose skin over her stomach bothered her most.

The problem extended 360 degrees around her body resulting in sagging tissues front and back. Plastic surgery body contouring solutions need to be individualized for each patient.

Left Picture: Before Tummy Tuck Abdominoplasty

Right Picture: 5 Months After Tummy Tuck. Learn more about this patient and tummy tuck abdominoplasty cosmetic surgery.

Weight loss can result in massive folds of redundant skin that only shrink so much. These folds are common around the abdomen, waist, legs, arms breast, and neck. There are many possible operations for these problems.

Left Picture: Drooping Skin After Massive Weight Loss

Right Picture: Only 16 Days After Tumescent Lower Body Lift. Learn more about this teenager, her weight loss, and body lift.

Abdominoplasty or Tummy Tuck Surgery tightens loose skin about the abdomen. An extended abdominoplasty addresses the extra skin folds around the back. Body Lift Surgery and Belt Lipectomy help lift the entire lower body. See how this after weight loss surgery tightens loose skin of the buttocks, hips, thighs and the stomach. Thigh lift is for the extra flesh of the upper legs. An arm lift or brachioplasty addresses the skin about the upper arms. Breast Lift Surgery helps with drooping or sagging breasts. Facelift and Neck Lift Surgery help tighten the extra skin about the neck and face. Localized collections of residual fat can be sculpted with liposuction. However, liposuction is not a good tool for general weight loss.

There are also pages if information about other operations. Extra skin folds is an individual problem and each patient needs an in office evaluation to properly focus a discussion about plastic surgery. If you want to explore in greater detail the risks, benefits, and alternate methods of care, set up an office consultation. Only after an examination can Dr. Bermant provide the greater detail needed to decide if surgery is a reasonable option.

Left Picture: Drooping Skin After Major Weight Loss

Right Picture: Only 17 Days After Tumescent Lower Body Lift

Learn more about this patient's after weight loss surgery.

Left Picture: Loose Skin After Weight Loss

Right Picture: 5 Months After Tummy Tuck.

Drooping stomach wall tissues can be depressing. Even clothing will not hide some abdominal deformities. Tummy tuck surgery can restore a more youthful appearance to the abdomen. Abdominoplasty can make you feel much better about yourself.

This patient had loose skin after massive weight loss (from 245 to 140 pounds). More about this patient

This 5 feet 8 inch tall female patient lost 98 pounds through dieting and exercise that left massive amounts of loose tissues and a distorted belly button. More about this patient.

Left Picture:
Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck for Loose Skin After Weight Loss.

Right Picture:
Tight skin 10 months after Dr. Bermant's Tumescent Tummy Tuck Abdominoplasty.

Left Picture: Loose Skin After Weight Loss

Right Picture: 3 Months After Tummy Tuck

Abdominoplasty surgery can remove localized fat and tighten loose skin / lax muscles. More about loose abdominal skin and this patient.

Left Picture: Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck Surgery

Right Picture: 11 Days After Tumescent Tummy Tuck.

More about this patient.

Left Picture: Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck Surgery

Right Picture: 18 Days After Tumescent Tummy Tuck.

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Left Picture: Loose Skin After Gastric Bypass

Right Picture: 2 1/2 Years After Tummy Tuck.

Gastric bypass bariatric surgery can leave loose extra skin. Body contouring plastic surgery can tighten extra skin after losing weight.

More about this patient.

Left Picture: Before Tumescent Lower Body Lift in Teenager who lost 137.8 pounds weight.

Right Picture:
Only 16 Days After Pannus Reduction through Tumescent Lower Body Lift Surgery

View more pictures and movies before and after this lower body lift.

Weight loss in men can result in drooping loose chest skin.

In men, fat can collect about the chest region resulting in female like breast contours. Weight reduction can help with the fat, residual gland and extra skin can remain a problem.

Residual gland, no longer hidden by the fat, can become more prominent. Gynecomastia surgical sculpture can manage this concern.

Top Picture: Loose Skin and Sagging Male Breasts After 40 - 50 pound weight loss.

Bottom Picture: just 9 days after Gynecomastia Male Breast Reduction and Internal Lift Male Mastopexy

Sagging can result in displaced nipples and areola well below their normal locations at lower edge of the pectoral muscles. Chest skin reduction techniques in men are an option. Skin reduction scars can be an issue. That is why Dr. Bermant evolved his Short Scar Internal Male Mastopexy chest contouring surgery. Superficial Fascia Suspension Tissue is lifted allowing the skin to redrape with a small external scar.

This Australian male patient lost 69 pounds and went from 196 pounds to 128 through dieting and exercise. He had loose skin of the chest, abdomen, and arms. Seven months before in Australia, he had a donut mastopexy to tighten the chest skin, a brachioplasty to tighten the arm skin, and a tummy tuck to tighten the stomach skin. The patient says that his areola were huge the first he saw them shortly after surgery.

Top Picture: Very Large Areola After Complication of Skin Reduction Surgery By Other Surgeon in Australia

Bottom Picture: just 3 Weeks After Dr. Bermant's Revision Areola Reduction Surgery

Areola reduction surgery surgery by Donut Skin Reduction requires special techniques or complications like the massive areola deformity. Picking your surgeon carefully is much better than needing a revision. Learn more about this patient's Revision Surgery for this Male with Large Areola.

Delivery after pregnancy is another common form of rapid "weight loss." Learn more about what plastic surgery offers after pregnancy. Read questions and answers about cosmetic surgery after pregnancy.

Forum and bulletin board for questions and answers after weight loss

Weight loss is a coarse tool, you cannot pick where the weight comes from. You also cannot pick where the weight goes back onto. Plastic Surgery is better as a refinement tool after losing weight.
Some of Dr. Bermant's patients chose to lose weight after surgery and their skin compensates well. However, as a surgical sculptor, Dr. Bermant prefers to use the coarse tool of losing weight first and then refine with Plastic Surgery sculpture.