Cosmetic Surgery after Weight-Loss Surgery

Remove excess skin after massive weight loss

Massive weight-loss following weight-loss (gastric bypass) surgery can lead to extensive amounts of excess skin on the thighs, legs, breasts and buttocks. The result is a lot of saggy remaining skin that is not elastic enough to shrink back down. As a result, it has become common practice for weight-loss surgery patients to undergo some form of plastic surgery after losing weight.

While there is a cosmetic urgency for patients to have excess skin removed, medical necessity leads many patients to plastic surgery. Conditions include sweating and chronic infection under the hanging skin to lower back or shoulder pain.

Plastic surgery is an option for most weight-loss surgery patients as soon as 18 months after surgery.

Not only can the excess skin of the stomach be removed (panniculectomy) but the arms and thighs can also be helped with skin removal.