Massive Weight Loss Surgery
Morbid obesity is a new epidemic is almost one third of all Americans. One of the most effective for permanent weight loss has been "Bariatric" surgery, including gastric bypass and gastric banding. selected patients lose 100 pounds within 18-24 months of surgery.
Having successfully battled obesity, these individuals are now facing a new challenge excessive hanging skin folds of the abdomen, arms, thighs, breasts and face. To think that once they lose their massive weight they will attractive again, men and women are disappointed and frustrated with unsightly folds of skin that cover their groin like an apron, hang their arms like bat wings and squirming their legs while trying to jog. It also creates a problem for personal hygiene.
This challenge led to the development of new methods of reshaping the body, specially designed for weight loss after mass. In 2005, 68,000 men and women have undergone morphological after massive weight loss.
After weight loss, almost all patients are faced with multiple problems requiring multiple surgeries. Before surgery, the patient's health should be optimized for many develop anemia or vitamin deficiency after bariatric surgery. Then, the sequence of multiple surgeries must be carefully designed with the help of an experienced plastic surgeon who specializes in body contouring after massive weight loss.
The body of the most common post-bariatric surgery abdominoplasty or contouring is abdominoplasty. These are not standard tummy tucks, but rather extensive or "High Tension" tummy borders also designed to raise the hips and thighs subsidence while tightening the loose abdominal wall muscles.
A broader form of this tummy tuck is to call a body lift or tummy tuck a belt that removes excess abdominal skin fold, and one in the back, causing greater lift of the sagging buttocks and thighs. Panniculectomy is a more specific form of abdominoplasty selected for those who have a very large, heavy, and the hanging pannus abdomen.
Often, obesity results in more stretching and weakening of the abdominal wall, resulting in a hernia ventral. This and other types of hernias can be repaired at the time of a tummy tuck or body lift. Second The most common body contouring procedure after massive weight loss is lifting the breasts or breast reduction.
These procedures are not limited women, since men also develop hanging breast / chest folds after weight loss. In women inverted-T mastopexy Anchor is used. Often, breast implants are added to replenish the lost breast volume. This procedure is sometimes combined with a lift of the upper body eliminates excessive skin folds of the upper torso extending to the upper back. Breast reduction surgery after weight loss mass in men has a different purpose and design. Its goal is to create a flat chest and masculine.
The third most common body contouring following the massive weight loss surgery is brachioplasty. Tuck brachioplasty arm or removes excess skin hanging from the upper arm. In its expanded form, it also removes the excess skin folds of the outside breast and armpit or axilla.
The fourth most common procedure for post-surgery bariatric plastic is a thigh lift. Thigh lifts address the excess skin folds of the inner thighs or internal, that of the outer thighs or side, or that of the whole leg. It is rather wide, extending throughout the length of the thighs and legs.
Finally, the plastic at least common surgical procedure performed following massive weight loss is a facelift. This is due to the fact that people gain weight relatively much least in their face to their body.
Therefore, after the massive weight loss there are relatively fewer loose skin of the face, because there would on other areas of the body. Never the less, patients may face, the folds of the neck suspended, jowls, cheeks and after weight loss. A variety of surgeries cosmetics, including the face neck lift, facelift, mid-face lift, or forehead lift can solve the problems related to subsidence skin of the face.
In planning the slenderness of procedures after massive weight loss attention should be given to the optimization safety and minimize the potential complications of these types of procedures which are rather long and complicated, and performed on patients who could have other risk factors such as sleep apnea, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, venous insufficiency, malnutrition, etc.
Therefore, these patients should be medically optimized and approved by an internist, pulmonologist, cardiologist or before surgery. In addition, the surgical department should be equipped and personnel to provide specialized care for such surgeries, as provide extensive post-surgical care monitored.
About the Author
Dave Stringham is the President of LookingYourBest.com an online resource for plastic surgery procedures. Learn more about body contouring and other plastic surgery procedures.
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