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Marta Wilczyńska
Surgical treatments

Massive weight lost (postbariatric procedures)

Plastic surgery meets the needs of patients after bariatric surgery, which they choose for aesthetic and health reasons. Obesity directly correlates with civilization diseases, such as: hypertension, diabetes, gout, advanced atherosclerosis, heart disease, lowered immunity. These people, wanting to lose excess body weight, and thus get rid of accompanying diseases, very often decide on bariatric procedures. They also get a lot of weight loss from their diet. However, the memento of obesity is often hanging skin with adhering connective tissue and remnants of adipose tissue. These tissues hang because the deep fascia and muscles are stretched. For these people, the only help in getting rid of these hanging garlands is plastic surgery.

What plastic procedures are most often performed?

  • Face

a. Eyebrow lift

b. Correction of the upper and lower eyelids

c. Lowerface lift with the neck

  • Chest

a. Breast lift

b. Gynecomastia with removal of hanging skin with graft of the areola-nipple complex

c. Upper body lift 180, 270 or 230 degrees

  • Belly

a. Regular abdominoplasty

b. Fleur-de-Lys abdominoplasty

c. Regular or Fleur-de-Lys abdominoplasty with mons pubis correction

  • Arms

a. Arm lift

b. Extended longitudinal arm lift (includes removal of part of the skin on the side of the chest)

  • Buttocks

a. Lifting the buttocks b. Lifting the buttocks with augmentation with implants

  • Thighs:

a. Thigh lift