What is body contouring
Body contouring or body sculpting is a term that includes procedures to reshape your body, after babies or change in weight. Weight loss is great for your health but it can leave you with a body you dont like. Lack of body shape and loose saggy skin are common complaints. This is where cosmetic surgery can help give you the body you always wanted.
Body contouring or body sculpting also encompasses procedures to help you reduce fat, including liposuction. Various non-surgical treatments are advertised to help you lose weight and tighten skin, such as mesotherapy (injections to dissolve fat), Thermage (radio frequency to tighten facial skin) and liposonix (ultrasound through the skin to destroy fat). In general there is little good evidence to show these procedures give good long-lasting results.
Top body contouring procedures
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Tummy tuck and body lift
After weight loss, clients often have loose saggy skin and sometimes some excess fat they cannot shift. There are a number of cosmetic procedures to help improve the shape of your body, including conventional tummy tuck (abdominoplasty), fleur-de-lys abdominoplasty, reverse abdominoplasty to help with excess in your upper tummy and body lift (circumferential abdominoplasty) to improve your body and give you buttock lift at the same time.
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Breast uplift and reshaping with implants (augmentation-mastopexy)
Clients often complain that following weight loss that breasts are empty and droopy. There are a number of different procedures to help with your breast. Mastopexy reshapes and lifts your breasts. We then use implants to give shape and volume (filling).
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Arm lift (brachioplasty)
Saggy skin that hangs down under your arms after massive weight loss concerns many of our patients. Bingo wings or bat wings are other terms used for this problem. Arm lift or brachioplasty reshapes your arms and removes the excess skin to give you more shapely arms. Clients often choose to have arm lift at the same time as breast surgery.
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Thigh lift
Thigh lift does for your inner thighs what arm lift does for your arms. Your thighs are reshaped my removing excess skin and lifting from the inner and upper thigh. We commonly do thigh lift at the same time as tummy tuck surgery.
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Facelift and neck lift
Massive weight loss can leave your face looking saggy, tired and old. Face and neck lift lift and tightens your facial and neck skin to give you a brighter fresher look.
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Liposuction
Liposuction is a procedure that removes excess fat by a suctioning process. It is ideal for clients with a specific area of excess fat that they cannot reduce by diet and exercise alone, particularly around the tummy, thighs, upper arms and buttocks. We often carry out liposuction at the same time as skin removal and tightening procedures, such as tummy tuck, thigh lift and arm lift.
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