Body Lift Surgery in Nashville, TN
Body lift surgery helps adjust the body’s contours for a more youthful, proportionate, and appealing appearance. This procedure is ideal for those who have experienced extreme weight loss or who have excess, sagging skin and fat around the thighs, abdomen, buttock, or hips. A body lift is one of many post-bariatric cosmetic surgeries available at the surgical center for The Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville.
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Body Lift Candidates
Candidates for a body lift often include:
- Men and women who desire a tighter, firmer body
- Patients struggling with sagging after significant weight loss or bariatric surgery
- Individuals with significant skin folds after extreme weight loss
- Those who experience discomfort from excess skin tucked into clothing
The pencil test quickly determines if you’re a candidate for body lift surgery. Place a pencil in the creases where your skin hangs. If the pencil stays in place, chances are, you’re an excellent candidate for a body lift.
The Body Lift Procedure
The body lift procedure incorporates multiple body contouring and lifting surgeries to proportionately reshape your entire body. Suppose you have problems with skin and fat tissue around your belly area. In that case, the surgeon will perform an abdominoplasty/tummy tuck. If you have saggy buttocks, hips, or thighs, a buttock lift or thigh lift will be performed. Total body lift surgery refers to all body contouring procedures performed at once.
Here at the Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville, we develop your customized surgical plan based on your desires and the highest standards in patient outcomes and safety. We may recommend proceeding with your surgeries in stages. For example, your surgeon may perform the tummy tuck first, followed by the circumferential thigh lift a few months later. Staging the surgeries in this manner will typically give the best result most safely. Surgery time varies from two hours to six hours, depending on the amount of skin to be removed and the placement of the incisions.
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After Body Lift Surgery/Recovery
Your recovery depends on the extent of the procedure performed. Before the surgery, we will discuss what to expect during post-care. Most patients require at least one night in the hospital, sometimes two, before feeling comfortable going home. Taking three to six weeks of time off work is also common among body contouring patients.
What Results Can I Expect from a Nashville Body Lift?
As your body continues to heal, the swelling will diminish, and the incisions will fade and improve. Your results are almost immediate, but it will take some time for you to recover and enjoy the final results. Any numbness or firmness of texture will diminish over time.
Once healing is complete, and scarring has diminished, your new uplifted body will be firmer as your skin quality dramatically improves. Your surgeon will strategically place the incisions so scarring will be hidden in the body’s natural contours.
Potential Risks
While we take great care in performing body lift surgery, complications are possible, though usually rare. Infection can be treated with drainage and antibiotics, but this will prolong your hospital stay. Smokers are advised to stop smoking. It may increase the risk of complications and delay your healing after surgery.
Schedule a virtual consultation with our surgeons to discuss your options and any possible risks.
Potential Risks
While we take great care in performing body lift surgery, complications are possible, though usually rare. Infection can be treated with drainage and antibiotics, but this will prolong your hospital stay. Smokers are advised to stop smoking. It may increase the risk of complications and delay your healing after surgery.
Schedule a virtual consultation with our surgeons to discuss your options and any possible risks.
Nashville Body Lift FAQs
- Lax, loose skin
- Dimpled or uneven soft tissue
- Sagging body contours
- Excess fat and tissue
- Stretch marks
- Back rolls
- Back rolls
- Flat upper buttocks
- Extra hanging thighs and lower buttock
The cost of body lift depends on the extent of the body lift performed and what procedures are included in the patient’s surgical plan. Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville offers financing to make the body Lift affordable.
It may take up to a year for scars to fade entirely after your body lift. However, the incisions are small in size and will be strategically placed within the natural folds and creases of the body, so they are rarely an issue for patients. Your surgeon understands that you want to minimize the appearance of your scars, so we will make every effort to ensure that the scarring is concealed.
The body lift surgery itself is pain-free, as some form of anesthesia will be used. Post-surgical discomfort may last somewhere between one to two weeks and varies in severity from person to person. We will make every effort to keep you comfortable with clear after-surgery instructions and oral medications for discomfort.