This patient safety article discusses strategies to prevent, diagnose, and manage complications from body contouring surgery. Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative approaches to avoiding, identifying, and treating complications are addressed. Individual…
Major surgical body contouring procedures have several inherent drawbacks, including hospitalization, anesthetic use, pain, swelling, and prolonged recovery. It is for these reasons that body contouring through noninvasive and minimally…
A 2-position circumferential approach for body contouring of the lower trunk is presented. Mostly indicated in patients after massive weight loss, this approach allows the simultaneous skin resection and reshaping…
The primary goal of belt lipectomy surgery is to improve the contour of the inferior truncal circumferential unit and to place the resultant scar in natural junctions. Excessive intra-abdominal content…
There is a growing interest in upper arm aesthetic surgery but many patients do not accept the visible inner arm scar. Minimal incision brachioplasty using a shorter scar, concealed in…
This article contrasts the ideal appearance of the female upper arm, axilla, and upper midlateral chest with the sagging and/or oversized deformity. The constellation of postbrachioplasty aesthetic deformity is introduced….
This article discusses management of the post–weight loss thigh deformity. Beginning with an explanation of the soft tissue variables contributing to the thigh and medial thigh deformity in the postbariatric…
Anatomic sequelae of the upper back that occur with age or weight loss have been somewhat underserved in the plastic surgery literature. Zones of adherence in the upper posterior trunk…
This article illustrates the author’s approach of directly excising adipose tissue excess in the lateral and posterior hip region by extending the lateral extent of the horizontal incision in a…
Modern abdominoplasty is a powerful and safe body sculpturing tool. In combination with other body contouring procedures, it can lead to a comprehensive body transformation: anatomic, physiologic, and psychological. With…
