New York City Body Contouring
Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are becoming the cause for major health problems worldwide and particularly in the United States. People can find many ways to reduce weight, but the fight against weight loss does not end there. After excessive weight loss and weight reducing surgery the skin looses its elasticity and the once stretched skin cannot conform to the reduced body form.
One problem related to weight loss is that after reducing a considerable amount of weight, the excess skin which was accommodating the previous volume tends to sag. It is important to get the skin to firm up and back to shape after losing a lot of weight.
Many patients choose body contouring after severe weight loss which can mean multiple surgeries resulting in giving the body normal and smoother contours. These procedures have been improved over the years as plastic surgeons have gained experience in combining liposuction and excision and have successfully reduced the complications arising from these surgeries.
Buttocks automatically get flattened owing to excessive weight loss programmes and as such, augmentation in the buttock area becomes inevitable. Tummy tuck are also another popular surgery. Approximately 185,000 tummy tucks and 5000 buttocks augmentations were done in 2007.
Experience and innovative techniques has also led to almost invisible scars after contouring. Surgeons prefer to perform smaller multiple procedures than larger ones. And a new trend seen recently is having 2 teams of surgeons performing the surgery.
Body contouring also has a positive impact on weight and heart heart. With a couple of procedures an experienced surgeon can conduct this procedure effectively with minimal visible scars thereby giving the patients a huge confidence boost. It is preferred by most of the surgeons to go in for multiple small procedures, rather than one large one. Sometimes even more than one surgeon work on the patient simultaneously.
Some patients go in only for the upper body lift where breast augmentation is done to give volume, and arm lifts are performed to remove the excess skin hanging in the upper arm area. The weight loss should be stabilized before going in for body contouring as an increase in loss of weight after the procedure will cause more skin to sag and even weight gain can cause trouble as the skin will have lost its elasticity, will be put under great stress.
Upper body lift is also very popular. Breast lift and arm lifts involve removing excess skin in the upper arm. Patient should be careful in not putting on weight after the procedure. This will result in great stress for the skin due to its having lost elasticity, and skin in the other parts will tend to sag more. It is better to also stabilize weight loss before going in for body contouring.
According to some of the top surgeons performing this procedure, people who have a high body mass index are likely to have more complications because of this procedure. Complications include prolonged swelling, pain, loss of skin and discoloration, scarring, seroma which is formation of lump due to accumulation of fluid, infection, and bleeding.