It is true that the problem of a hanging belly was touching since today, only the women and was mostly caused by pregnancies, massive loss of weight or the frequent loss and gain of weight in combination with an inactive way of living. Beside this, as years go by, the skin cannot remain firm.
Nowdays, where men also show a great interest in their appearance they are no longer put off by prejudices and they address a plastic surgeon in order to get rid of their prominent or hanging belly. As the body contouring surgery is in an excellent progress, we have come to the conclusion that the classic abdominoplasty in combination with other similar harmonizing techniques can give us not only the best aesthetical but also practical results.
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The high Lateral tension abdominoplasty with or without the combination of liposuction, is the classic abdominoplasty which can be done with or without the repositioning of the umbilical. The High Lateral Tention Abdominoplasty takes out the excessive fat and skin, initially with a vertical direction. In this way, the plastic surgeon succeeds in making the belly firm and flat. While the additional surgical procedure at this time is done with an horizondial direction of the peritoneum. The fat is substracted from the lateral abdominal walls, narrowing the waist.
It is very important that the plastic surgeon estimates properly the quantity of the excessive fat but also the quality of the skin that will remain. The remaining skin should be adequate enough for closure and aesthetically good, otherwise it will hang over again.
ABDOMINOPLASTY IN MASSIVE WEIGHT LOSS PEOPLE
Obesity is a chronic, multifactorial disease with genetic, environmental, social, cultural biologic and neurologic causes, and it is related with many conditions which lead to early death.
Fortunately, bariatric surgery has been increasingly developed over the last several decades. Therefore, either with malabsorption, or gastric restriction it has succeeded in putting people back into a normal weight range. Nevertheless, these patients may have avoided various health problems but the quality of their skin has become saggy and lax. These are many cases where even the patients themselves can’t believe how their body has become. For these patients plastic surgery is the last step and the only vehicle to their body transformation as well as to bring their own life to normal again.
Although in every case of massive weight loss, the quantity of the excess skin may vary, the plastic surgeon’s goal as well as the patient’s desire is the same: to reshape the body into normal proportions where there will only be left a healthy tight skin.
Your plastic surgeon has many techniques to reach his goal. Brachionoplasty High Tentional Abdominoplasty, thigh lift and literally every part of the body that presents deformities can be sculptured and be brought back to normal.
