People are considered obesed by most medical standards, if they have body mass index over 40. People who are obese are likely to experience health illness such as diabetes and heart disease.
Gastric Bypass Surgery has become a viable option for the people who are obese.People from all over the world want to loose weight but they are not able to reduce their weight with diet and exercise alone.
Need for Plastic Surgery After Gastric Bypass:-
- The skin does not always shrink after gastric bypass surgery. However, people observe that after the surgery their skin has become loose.
- The baggy or dropping of the skin after gastric bypass surgery varies from person to person. Skin type, speed with which weight was lost and amount of weight lost are all the variations in which a person can have dropping of the skin.
- Anyone who do not have tight skin to match their new smaller size body, for them body contouring can be useful.This plastic surgery gives the person a tight body and more lean look. The surgery not only tightens the skin but also removes the remaining fat.
- The plastic surgery can be performed both on men and women. Mostly this type of surgery is commonly performed around the abdomen,neck, arms, breast and legs.
Procedure of Plastic Surgery After Gastric Bypass:-
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Arm Lift or Brachioplasty:- Whatever the extra flesh which appears on the upper side of the arm can be removed by this surgery. Surgeon removes the extra skin from the armpit to the elbow of the arm. Liposuction is used to remove the bulky left over fat which can lurk in certain areas of the body even after weight loss surgery.
Breast Fit or Mastopexy:- It helps in removing the excess tissue from the beast. The surgeon relocates the breast. In order to give more pleasing shape, breast implant can be done.
Tummy Tuck or Abdominoplasty:- The surgeon remove the excess skin which hangs down to cover the pubic region. The hanging skin causes a lot of physical discomfort. Sometimes the patient might experiences rashes which can be irritating. It becomes difficult to clean the large flaps of extra skin. The surgeon use liposuction on the patient’s stomach. The surgeon also trims the excess skin from the patient’s back and sides as well.
