Body Contouring in Boston – Dr. Samuel Lin
Dr. Lin understands that self-confidence permeates into many aspects of your life. If you’ve had Boston weight loss surgery, you may still have unwanted and unattractive loose skin negatively affecting your self-image. For this reason, Dr. Lin offers Boston, MA body contouring services for patients that require loose skin removal after their weight loss surgery. Patients can also receive such procedures as tummy tuck, arm lift, lower body lift, and liposuction to help further upgrade their personal aesthetic. Below, we have included additional information highlighting Dr. Lin’s impeccable resume as well as video testimonials illustrating patients’ successful results.
In the Fall of 2010 Dr. Lin helped publish a surgical atlas for Body Contouring, or Surgery after Weight Loss, a book which details surgical techniques for these procedures. This past June 2011 Dr. Lin gave a lecture at the 25th Annual International Conference on Practical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity regarding body contouring after significant weight loss.
Goals of Body Contouring (Surgery after Weight Loss)
Surgery after Weight Loss (Body Contouring) removes prominent skin folds and fat that causes people to feel uncomfortable in participating in social activities, or wearing swimsuits and sportswear or casual wear. People have generally reached a stable weight while eating right and exercising more, and individuals may have lost significant weight, but some areas, such as the abdomen, hips, thighs, legs and arms, and head/neck region, especially after pregnancy, may remain with skin folds and excess fat. Body contouring may help individuals boost their appearance and improve their quality of life while improving their physical and emotional conditions.
Body contouring includes surgical procedures such as tummy tuck, arm lift, thigh lift, lower body lift, facelift, breast lift/augmentation, and liposuction that can be done independently or in various combinations.
In all body contouring procedures detailed consultation and understanding is the key to reach the best outcome and achieve patient satisfaction.
Tummy tuck is a body contouring plastic surgery procedure intended to improve the shape of your abdominal region. This is usually achieved by removing excess skin and fat from the abdomen and tightening the abdominal skin and also the abdominal wall muscles depending on your anatomy. This procedure is usually intended to help those who have lost a significant amount of weight or those who had multiple pregnancies and are suffering from protruding abs that do not disappear by diet or exercise due to loss of skin laxity and/or muscle over stretching. A tummy tuck can give you a smaller waistline, firmer abs and flatter abdomen.
Arm Lift (Brachioplasty)
Arm lift is a body contouring procedure intended to reshape the bottom portion of the upper arm, from the underarm region to the elbow.
Significant weight loss, aging, and sometimes heredity may give a sagging upper arm appearance. Loss of skin elasticity and localized fat deposits cannot be corrected by exercising. All these arm problems may be addressed by an arm lift, in order to gain a tighter firmer upper arm appearance.
After having an arm lift you may not have to wear long sleeves to hide your arms anymore, and you may be able to enjoy exercising and even wear swimsuits.
Liposuction is a procedure that sculpts and shapes the contours of the body by removing fat deposits from under the skin using a vacuum-suction cannula (a hollow pen-like instrument).
For the best results, the skin covering the area of intended fat removal should be quite elastic in order to compensate for the volume loss and to redrape more tightly.
Liposuction is intended to remove localized fat deposits on the abdomen, hips, thighs, calves, arms, buttocks, back, neck, or face. Liposuction can be performed on more than one site in the same setting. Liposuction is not intended for weight loss instead of diet and exercise.
Thigh Lift
Thigh lift is a cosmetic procedure that is intended to reshape the thighs by reducing excess skin, and in some cases, fat, resulting in smoother skin and better proportioned contours of the thighs and lower body decreasing the sagging or drooping in the inner or outer thigh.
If diet and exericise do not achieve your goal of a youthful, firmer thigh, a surgical thigh lift may do it for you. The best candidates for thigh lifts are people with excess skin and soft tissue along the inner thigh region and/or the outer thigh whose weight has been relatively stabilized. Thigh lift in combination with liposuction may help those patients with inelastic skin to have more firmer thighs. Thigh lift surgery is usually done through incisions in the groin that may extend around the back of the thigh for an inner thigh lift, or you may be a candidate for a minimal incision medial thigh lift where the incision is hidden in the groin. The surgery involves excision of excess skin and tissues, reshaping and tightening the skin giving you a firmer and younger contour.
In contrast, an outer thigh lift that is intended to improve the contour of the outer shape, the groin incision is extended around the hip. This incision may be long but we use carefully planned incisions that ultimately are usually in well hidden places.
Lower Body Lift is a plastic surgical procedure that tightens the thighs and the buttocks by removing excess skin and tissues from the outside hip and thigh. If you are suffering from loose sagging lower body skin with a sizeable amount of stubborn fat that is not responding to dieting and exercise, leading to sagging buttocks, thighs, and flanks that can distort the contour of your body, you may be a good candidate for lower body lift surgery.
A lower body lift is done through an incision that follows the bikini/boxers line around the entire body. Usually a generous portion of redundant skin and underlying tissues are removed. Although the scar is long it usually heals well and can be covered by most clothing and swimsuits.
Female
After weight loss, the breasts may have a deflated or sagging appearance. Using the existing skin and fat locally or implants, the breasts may be made to have a fuller appearance while repositioning the nipple-areolar region to a higher position on the chest.
Male
After weight loss, the breasts may also be deflated with excess skin and fat. Breast surgery after weight loss in males repositions the nipple area and removes the excess skin.