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5 Sagging Skin Areas a Body Lift Can Enhance

Like a lift for your face, a body lift addresses loose skin that sags and droops, changing your body’s contour and shape. It may or may not involve liposuction to remove excess fat, but it often also involves tissue removal and reattachment. Body lifts aim to smooth out dimpled skin, reduce cellulite, and reposition loose tissue.

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When skin laxity and gravity combine forces, your body’s aesthetic contours can suffer. Hanging and drooping skin can occur all over your body due to age, lifestyle factors such as smoking, and life events like pregnancy and extreme weight loss. Body lift surgery is aimed at correcting these bodily irregularities to give you a sleeker figure, not to mention a surge of self-esteem.

Body Lift Surgery: What You Need to Know

A body lift combines several surgeries in one procedure to remove extra skin with poor elasticity and related fat deposits after significant weight loss, often from a bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass. An upper body lift, lower body lift, or a combination of the two provides the most dramatic body contouring results of any skin tightening procedure, while reducing the discomfort that can be caused by excess skin. Results are immediate and permanent, as long as you maintain a stable weight. As more people have had weight loss surgery, the popularity of lower body lifts has risen by nearly 4,000% over the past 20 years, according to the most recent statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Body Lift vs. Liposuction – Which One is Right for You?

The goal of a body lift is to improve the shape and tone of the tissue which supports the fat and skin. With this treatment, excess sagging fat and skin will be removed to combat poor tissue elasticity. The body lift was initially designed because sometimes exercise alone will not affect sagging skin or uneven contours. There are number of variables which contribute to poor tissue elasticity. This results in multiple areas of your body, such as your abdomen, arms, and buttocks, sagging. A body lift can also improve irregular skin surfaces and dimpling.

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To be successful, a fat graft needs nutrition and so has to be injected into tissue that has a blood supply. Fat can survive if injected into other fat, but up to 90% of it can be absorbed if it is. Fat has more chance of staying in place if it is inserted into muscle – but this is where the risk lies.

Life After Body Lift: What to Expect

Imagine finally seeing the results of your weight loss journey without extra skin. Body lift surgery isn’t just about removing extra skin, it’s about finally seeing the finish line.

What Body Parts Can Be “Lifted”?

The “Lift” is a body contouring procedure that is designed to reverse the signs of aging. By tightening and rejuvenating the skin, a skilled cosmetic surgeon can create a beautifying effect. You can use Body Lift Procedures for all sorts of body parts, and the effects can be dramatic.

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Body lifts are not intended strictly for the removal of excess fat. Liposuction alone can remove excess fat deposits where skin has good elasticity and is able to naturally conform to new body contours. In cases where skin elasticity is poor, body lift techniques along with liposuction may be recommended.