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What we will be talking about to you today is post massive weight loss body contouring procedures. If you are someone who has lost a lot of weight or if you know someone who has lost a lot of weight, then this video is for you because I will be discussing in-depth about post massive weight loss body contouring.
Keep watching this video because this might benefit you and may change your life forever.
I am Dr. Rajat Gupta, a board-certified plastic surgeon working in Delhi, with an experience of over 2000 body contouring procedures.
So, let’s talk about what is massive weight loss.
Now, any individual can lose a lot of weight. But massive weight loss means the loss of at least 10kg in 3 months time. So, lot of individuals lose a lot of weight either due to exercise, dieting or they undergo some procedures like bariatric surgery, in which there are different options of sleeve gastrectomy, roux en y bypass – all as simple as a balloon insertion into the stomach.
After all these interventions, a person loses a lot of weight and they reduce their subcutaneous fat a lot. Now, once they lose this weight and the subcutaneous fat what happens is that their skin starts sagging or the skin gets loose.
You may notice that they lose fat from their face and neck and the face and neck skin start loosening up. Or, majorly, they lose a lot of fat from their abdomen and their abdominal skin gets loose and it doesn’t look nice if they remove their clothes. There is a huge amount of skin which is sagging. At the same time,
they may have some loose skin in their thigh area which does not look nice.
In females, once they lose a lot of fat, they may also get breast sagging. Their breasts may sag. Which also doesn’t look nice. Depending upon what areas an individual has got sagging and in, we plan the correction for those areas. Basically, what they need is removal of excess skin.
Now, whether this excess skin is in their neck, in their chest, in their abdomen, in their arms or thighs, the treatment is customized depending upon what an individual’s needs or requirements are. So, suppose someone has a lot of excess skin in their abdomen. What it needs is the removal of excess skin from the lower abdomen or a procedure known as tummy tuck or abdominoplasty. If a person has excess skin in their thighs or arms, then they need a reduction in their excess skin, in those areas and the procedure is called a thigh lift or an arm lift. For face and neck sagging, a person may undergo a procedure
called face or neck lift. And for the sagging of breasts, they need a procedure called breast lift or mastopexy.
Now, all these procedures are actually customized and tailored for each individual. But a person who has lost a large amount of weight and has sagging skin, they would eventually need this because sagging skin is
not only an aesthetic concern but that area is also very difficult to clean. The sweat gets accumulated, they may have some fungal infections there, and it doesn’t look nice altogether. I’ve seen such individuals, when they remove their clothes, it’s not only that they don’t look nice, they also lose a lot of their confidence.
They display inhibitions even though they have lost such a large amount of weight and they look nice with clothes on. They would be inhibited by removing their clothes and going swimming or for a beach holiday.
So, understand that the ramifications of this procedure are not only for aesthetic concerns but also for the self-confidence of that person.
These procedures are reasonably safe procedures if done by a good plastic surgeon at a good center. Now, you need to choose your plastic surgeon keeping in mind a person who has experience with post massive weight loss contouring because these are some things which are very different to contour, the skin excess is in all dimensions, and therefore your plastic surgeon has to be smart enough and artistic enough that they understand how to remove the excess skin while giving you minimal scars and, at the same time,
enhancing the shape of your body.
I’ve tried to answer the indications of body contouring after post massive weight loss procedures. If you have any more questions regarding these procedures, please write into us and I will be there to help you. Thank you.
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