Often, significant weight loss and pregnancy can leave excess skin and stubborn fat pockets behind. While diet and exercise is the healthiest, most effective way to lose weight, it doesn’t always work on these areas. Fortunately, body contouring procedures can help to fine-tune your new shape. Learn more about what body contouring is and if you are a good candidate for body contouring in Scottsdale below.
Surgical body contouring following major weight loss removes excess sagging skin and fat while improving the shape of the underlying tissue. The result is a more proportional appearance and smoother contours. Body contouring procedures include
There are a certain number of fat cells in your body because it’s simply who you are. When you gain weight, you aren’t producing more fat cells, you’re expanding the ones you have. When you lose weight, they are getting smaller.
With body contouring procedures in Scottsdale, many of the fat cells in your body are removed or destroyed. Once they are gone, they will never regenerate or be replaced. Now, the remaining fat cells in your body can still expand and contract, therefore, it’s important to remain in an active lifestyle. Fortunately, with the help of a board-certified surgeon, he or she can essentially sculpt your body to remove fat cells in certain areas of the body as well as remove any excess skin to fine-tune your new shape.
While there are many forms of body contouring procedures, including surgical and non-surgical, not everyone is a good candidate. A board-certified plastic surgeon will take your health history and examination to determine if the procedure is right for you. In general, however, these signs may help you to understand if body contouring is right for you.
The ideal candidate lives a healthy lifestyle with regular activity and a healthy diet. Especially after your treatment, it’s very important to maintain this lifestyle. Otherwise, the results will not last. This also allows for the biggest impact on a patient’s results because it transforms the body into the sculpted body you’ve always wanted.
The fact you are a smoker or a non-smoker plays a big part in your healing process. If you are a smoker, it can significantly delay wound healing and greatly increases the risks of complications and risks. It’s recommended to stop smoking at least four weeks before the surgery and to not start smoking until at least four weeks after the procedure.
While this may sound obvious, surgery is going to change the way you look. It’s not uncommon for patients to initially feel uncomfortable with their new look simply because it’s new. Body contouring is a personal decision and should be made for the right reasons. It cannot make you look like anyone else, and it cannot meet the aesthetic goals that someone else has set for you. It is solely a way to meet the goals you have for yourself.
Losing weight requires hard work and dedication, and if you’ve put forth the effort to lose weight, it can be frustrating to see sagging skin or fat pockets that don’t respond to diet and exercise. As mentioned above, if you are within your goal weight – or near it – body contouring procedures can remove sagging skin and fat pockets to tone your body.
As there are various body contouring procedures, recovery time will vary depending on the procedure. A rule of thumb to go off of is judging by your most extensive surgery, often a tummy tuck. During your recovery time, dressings and bandages will be applied to your incisions following the procedures.
Small tubes may also be temporarily placed under the skin to drain any excess blood or fluid that may collect.
Before the procedure, be sure to ask your board-certified plastic surgeon specific questions about what to expect during your recovery period, including
Body contouring is for an aesthetic difference, not to make you healthy. If you want to maintain the results you need to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle. If you are interested in body contouring, feel free to contact Dr. Rimma Finkel MD and team today! We are a team of experts eager to inform and help you reach your goals.
