Body Lift Before & After Case 1159

Dr. David Stoker, Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon in Los Angeles, performed a body lift on a patient with a history of massive weight loss. This particular patient is super-kind, and she's 36-years old. She lost 160 pounds through diet and exercise. Although she was relieved to lose that 160 pounds, she was disappointed with her skin elasticity afterward. She had a tremendous amount of wrinkling and sagging, especially for somebody on the younger side of 36-years of age.

Dr. Stoker performed a circumferential body lift. What does that mean? It means it's going to result in an incision that goes all the way around the waist. He designed that so it can be concealed underneath a bikini without seeing any scars at all. He performed a tummy tuck on the front, on the sides, a lateral thigh lift, and on the back or posterior area, he performed a buttocks lift, so it's one continuous scar around the midline. He also reset her belly button as part of the surgery.

You can see a really dramatic improvement in the overall texture of her skin, the folds and lumps and bumps of her buttocks are greatly smoothed out, but she has very poor elasticity after 160 pounds. Dr. Stoker got about a 95% improvement in this case, which made her feel really good. It's a large procedure to do this. You might ask what recovery is like? In his experience, recovery actually is often easier than just a tummy tuck. There's this joy accompanied by having all of that skin removed and the feeling of looking in the mirror and saying, "Oh, my gosh, I now have the body that I've always wished for." Dr. Stoker believes that's how she felt about it in this case.