Video Website powered by Einstein IndustriesRonald H. Schuster, MD

Plastic surgery for patients after having massive weight loss involves all of their body. On my sit-down with the patient, we come up with a game plan of which areas are bothering them the most and try to attack those areas first. I always tell the patients it is going to take a series of operations to get the full effect of everything that they can achieve. Body lifts help to actually lift the areas of excess skin and fat from the outer thighs and the buttock area and help to tighten up those areas. For all of the body lift operations, whether it is on their trunk or their arms or their thighs, improves the appearance of these areas. Patients who are excellent candidates are those who are in a fairly good lifestyle with diet and exercise and just have too much skin that will not shrink. It is a tradeoff operation from again having the areas that they do not like to getting areas that they do like but then have scars and again the scars are the major issue that we talk about with the patient.