If
you are considering a body lift procedure...
6% of Americans are morbidly obese (i.e. 100lbs
overweight). Successful weight loss programs for
these people can be partially funded by insurance.
If dietary restriction and exercise cannot effect
sufficient change bariatric surgery is likely to
accomplish it.
Recent advances in bariatric procedures (stomach
stapling or bypass) have decreased the time of
operation and the complication rate leading to a
greatly increased utilization of this method of
weight control. These are in hospital surgeries and
will usually qualify for insurance coverage. Perhaps
because of this, requests for body lifts have been
increasing.
There are enormous benefits to weight loss.
Cholesterol and diabetes control and decrease in the
incidence of heart, peripheral vascular disease, and
cancer.
The down side to significant weight loss in adults
is hanging skin. The chest, back, flanks, abdomen,
arms and thighs may show excess wrinkled skin. These
areas can be treated with appropriate body lift
techniques. This is extensive surgery and should be
done by surgeons, such as Dr. Gutstein, with
training in both general and plastic surgery and
with experience in body sculpting and body lifting
procedures.
