Upper Body Lift

What Is a Upper Body Lift?

Weight loss surgery's success has resulted in a new epidemic. After a bariatric surgery, many patients experience significant psychological disturbance due to body image issues and functional as well as hygienic disturbances due to the significant amount of excess skin throughout the body. This is paramount in the chest, upper arm and even facial areas. All of these issues in the upper body part can be addressed with a procedure called upper body lift.

Who is a candidate for upper body lift?

Ideal upper body lift candidates include patients who have lost a lot of weight recently (either from weight loss or from bariatric surgery) and have sagging skin on their upper bodies and patients that have stretched out skin following childbirth.

The Upper Body Lift Procedure

Advances in surgical techniques and anesthesia now can offer the next step to remove the excess skin so your new, slimmer figure can be revealed. The upper body lift is a combination of procedures such as a mastopexy (breast lift), brachioplasty (arm lift) and rhytidectomy (face lift).

Dr. Tehrani is very experienced and skilled in all of these procedures and is aware of the modifications and staging issues important for weight loss patients.

Benefits of An Upper Body Lift Procedure

Some of the benefits of associated with a upper body lift are:

• Multiple areas of the upper body are covered in one single operation
• The procedure reshapes the upper arms & lifts the breasts
• Excess back tissue is used to augment the breasts