Body Contouring St. Louis

If you have lost a significant amount of weight on your own or after massive weight loss surgery, Dr. Michele Koo can reconstruct your breasts, arms, tummy, thighs, and face. She will approach your body contouring in stages and will begin with the areas that are the most bothersome for you. She wants you to understand that body contouring after weight loss is a multi-step process. Dr. Koo performs the most aggressive combination surgeries to do as much body contouring as possible in one procedure, but always has your safety in mind first.

Dr. Koo has extensive experience with body contouring after weight loss and will stage your reconstruction safely and economically. She often can rejuvenate your breasts and tummy during one stage and perform the thigh and lower body surgery at a second stage. Adding liposuction or arm rejuvenation can be performed in either stage.

About The Body Contouring Procedures

Body Contouring St. Louis Bariatric or gastric bypass surgery can be highly successful in helping morbidly obese patients lose weight. After the procedure, patients are often able to enjoy not only significant weight loss but also greater mobility, relief of symptoms and a lower risk of weight-related disease – not to mention a boost in self-confidence. One unfortunate result is that the stretched and inelastic skin hangs loose over the slimmer body.

Post-bariatric plastic surgery combines reconstructive and cosmetic techniques to tighten, lift and contour sagging areas for a more attractive appearance. The patient may choose to treat the arms, breasts, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, neck, face or other areas. Dr. Koo will help you develop a personalized treatment plan to maximize your results.

Procedures include:

Arm Lift St. Louis

After substantial weight loss from bariatric surgery or gastric banding, skin on the upper arms can become inelastic, loose and flabby. Arm lifts, also known as brachioplasty, remove that excess skin and fat. Patients who have significant amounts of fat may want to consider combining the procedure with liposuction.

Body Lift St. Louis

Also called belt lipectomy, torsoplasty and panniculectomy, the circumferential body lift is performed to remove excess skin from the torso and upper legs. Candidates for body lifts typically suffer from loose (inelastic) skin on many or most areas of the body as a result of significant weight loss after bariatric surgery or gastric banding. Because of this, the procedure is often combined with others such as breast lifts, arm lifts and liposuction to retain a proper body proportion. Body lifts tighten and tone the abdomen, back, buttocks, hips and thighs.

During the procedure, skin is lifted from underlying tissue, muscles are tightened and stitched and fat is removed where necessary, and the skin is sutured closed. The navel is often removed and replaced in its new position.

Buttock Lift St. Louis

A buttock lift trims excess skin from the buttocks that has resulted from massive weight loss. Buttock lifts produce a firmer contour.

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