Weight Loss : Tummy Tuck And Body Lift

While deciding between a tummy tuck and lower body lift, you need to consider the body areas that bother you the most.. After a massive weight loss, each patient loses the fat differently. Some patients may lose a significant amount of abdominal fat, while others may not lose as much. Some patients may lose a significant amount amount of fat from their thighs and buttock, while others may not. Another variable is how well the skin contracts or shrink-wraps around the area of fat loss. The amount of skin contracture may depend on age, the amount of weight loss and the quality of skin.

To decide between tummy tuck Beverly Hills and lower body lift, one needs to consider what each procedure will do for them. Both tummy tuck and body lift may remove the abdominal skin and fat. Also, both tummy tuck and lower body lift involves tightening the rectus or abdominal muscles and lead to a flat abdomen. However, the lower body lift goes farther than a tummy tuck.

If case of being bothered by outer hips, love handles lower back and buttocks, then a lower body lift may be a better surgery. The lower body lift or 360 body lift involves an incision which extends around body and removes skin and fat from entire torso. The incision extends from just above the pubic region, around the hips, meeting in the back. The lower bod lift may remove skin and fat from the abdomen, outer hips, lower back and buttocks. This may result in flat abdomen, contoured outer thighs and lifted buttocks. In comparison, tummy tuck only removes skin and fat from the mid abdomen, it does not address the hips or buttocks.

Another advantage of lower body lift over tummy tuck is minimal chance of dog-ear. A dog-ear is a collection of skin and fat left at end of incision / scar. This may occur after tummy tuck if the incision is too short and not enough skin and fat was removed. Usually, a tummy tuck dog-ear is corrected by extending the incision and removing the excess skin and fat. The lower body lift has minimal chances of a dog-ear as a result of the design of the surgery and the fact that there's no end to the incision. Some tummy tuck dog-ears are so large that to get rid of the dog-ear, the incision needs to extend further towards the back. This may result in a longer incision sometimes called an extended tummy tuck. The problem with the extended tummy tuck is that the incision is longer, but it doesn't truly lift the outer thighs. In addition, an extended tummy tuck doesn't raise the buttocks. A lower body lift is usually better than an extended tummy tuck Los Angeles as the lower body lift raises and tightens the outer thighs and buttocks.

In conclusion, if you are bothered by outer hips, thighs and buttocks, the lower bodylift may be a better procedure than tummy tuck. As body lift is longer and more involved procedure, it addresses more areas in a single surgery than the tummy tuck.
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