Lower Body Lift

Lower body lift, is a procedure to reshape, and remove excess skin and fat from the abdomen, waist, flanks, buttocks, back and outer thighs.   This procedure, which leaves a circumferential scar around your body that is hidden in the bikini line in women and below the underwear seam in men, can dramatically improve the contour and appearance of your lower body.  The lower body lift represents an extension of a tummy tuck procedure around the lower body to allow re-suspension and reshaping of the thighs, back and buttocks. The traditional lower body lift which represents an all in one approach to the body lift, has become less popular, this included the abdominoplasty and the back and buttock lift in one surgical procedure. Our commitment to patient safety is paramount and so it has become rare that a patient will have a complete circumfrential body lift performed in a single procedure.  In addition, a complete lower body lift creates opposing forces for healing purposes because the abdominoplasty portion of the procedure requires you to be flexed at the hip during the closure and post procdure, which limits the surgeons ability to excise tissue from the back and buttocks.  Typically patients who require this procedure, have had major weight loss and would be better served by having the procedure staged. This means that the abdominoplasty (panniculectomy) portion of the lower body lift will be performed during one procedure and the buttock and back lift portion of the body lift will be performed at a later date, usually 4-6 months from the previous surgery to allow for full recovery.