BODY CONTOURING / POST BARIATRIC SURGERY
(Post Massive Weight Loss Reconstruction)

INTRODUCTION: The areas which we can address with plastic surgery are the neck and face, breasts, inner arms, abdomen and back of trunk, hips, thighs and buttocks. As mentioned above, facial skin tightening, breast surgery and a straight forward abdominoplasty are covered elsewhere.

Here, we will focus on procedures designed to improve the inner arms, posterior trunk, hips, thighs and buttocks.

In all of these areas, the problem is an excessive amount of skin. It must be stressed that some skin laxity in these areas is absolutely normal. Every patient over the age of 20 will have some skin laxity in these areas, and the only time they should be addressed surgically is if the amount of skin laxity is much more than average, and if the degree of correction to be achieved can be justified by the resultant scarring. Procedures such as liposuction, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery and a face lift most frequently do not leave any visible scars. Body contouring procedures, on the other hand, ALWAYS leave a long and wide scar – each patient will have to decide for themselves if the improvement in the skin laxity will be justified by the resultant scars, cost and risks of surgery.

BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS

54 year old female with excessive inner thigh laxity, before and after an inner thigh plasty.

View more before and after photos: Post Bariatric Body Contouring

Juris Bunkis, MD, FACS
email:bunkis@ocps.com

Orange County Plastic Surgery
30212 Tomas, Suite 275
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
Phone: (866) 457-1293
Fax: (949) 888-9724