Things are looking great. You have worked hard to lose your weight significantly. It’s awesome. You will be more healthy, and you will get the body you deserve!
After massive weight loss, some patients lose a significant amount of abdominal fat while others miss the fat from their thighs and buttocks. Before choosing body lift over tummy tuck or vice versa, you need to choose what areas concern you the most. It also depends on the age, quality of the skin, skin contract around weight loss area, etc.
Preparations and the systematic approach are in need when choosing which region and the amount of work will be done. When deciding between Body Lift and tummy tuck you need need to understand what will each procedure do for you.
Both thummy thuck and body lift will remove abdominal skin and fat. There is a variety of different surgical removal of fat tissue. Traditional lipectomy and excisional-lifting techniques are common techniques when you are choosing your perfect body shape, and they affect different anatomic regions.
Tummy tuck
After the weight loss tummy tuck is a good way to tighten your muscle wall, making abs permanently tighter. Concentrated weight loss can leave the looser skin on one particular region. It can affect the appearance of the bust, lower back, and groins. Many surgeons advice tummy tuck as the first procedure before you proceed to the additional ones like buttock enhancement or thigh tuck. If you have multiple problem areas than this procedure is not for you. Also, if you consider staying pregnant again, tight abs can be broken during pregnancy. If this is the case, you should consider Lower body lift as a safer option. The tummy tuck does not affect hips and buttocks; it only affects skin and fat in the central abdomen.
Lower Body Lift
Lower body fat procedure will affect the stomach, back, thighs and buttocks. It is more invasive surgery then a tummy tuck and leave more scars, but is less invasive then multiple surgeries. There are additional risks because the incisions for a lower body lift circles around the body, removing much more tissue then a tummy tuck. In some cases, other incisions may be included. Longer recovery time is demanded because there is a trauma to underlying tissue. It’s often performed in conjunction with liposuction of the fat. This is a relatively cumbersome procedure because of the 20-30 cm skin removed from the body.
The length of the procedure is 4 to 5 hours, and the weight of the tissue is typically around 8 to 10 lbs (4-6 kg). Abdomen, buttocks, hips, and thighs are all lifted at the same time during an intervention, so this adds up additional risk. All surgeries caries risks of infection and scarring. Plastic surgeries can play a significant part in the weight loss. More and more surgeons are exploring methods of plastic reconstruction after massive weight- loss.
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