Following weight loss, one of the most common areas to develop excess skin is the inner arm regions.

This is manifested by skin which can hang down on the inner arm areas producing arm side cleave bulges.

Unfortunately, this skin will not tone up following exercise as it has been stretched beyond its capacity to recoil naturally.

The best option for this area is often a brachioplasty procedure which is also known as an arm lift operation.

In this procedure the excess skin is removed from the area by surgical excision leaving a scar up which lies up in the inside of the arm and into the armpit region.

The scar is placed so that it lies on the arm against the body so that it is not visible from the behind or in front when you have your arm by your side.

This form of surgery is very effective at reducing excess skin in the arm region and for further information about what’s involved, please visit www.bodyliftsurgery.co.uk.

Thigh lifts can either concentrate on the inner thigh region or the outer thigh region.

Thigh lifts are surgical procedures which elevate the thigh tissue producing a more youthful rejuvenated look to the thigh region.

Thigh lifts are often incorporated into body lift procedures.

In a outer thigh lift, skin is removed from the outer hip region which elevates the skin of the outer thigh.

In an inner thigh lift, the scar is concealed in the natural fold of your groin and elevates the skin in the inner thigh region.

These procedures have a similar effect to pulling up the skin of your legs of either side producing a more youthful appearance to the legs.

Both of these procedures can be incorporated in a body lift operation. (www.bodyliftsurgery.co.uk) which is a surgical procedure in which  thigh lifts are incorporated with excision of skin from the front of the tummy,  legs and back.

For people who have lost a significant amount of weight or who have developed lose skin in the thigh region, a thigh lift procedure can be performed and can a be very effective treatment for these regions.

Aurora Clinics has a number of specialists surgeons who have concentrated on this field and they will be delighted to see you for a free consultation to discuss the best way forward for you if you felt this was appropriate.

So here she is actually in theatre, that’s my lower incision, this is all the skin I’m going to remove.  So you can see she’s been so much bigger and there’s so much excess skin.  So I’m going to aim to remove all of this.  Here I am, the first stage is really just to cut around the tummy button so I’m making a mark around the tummy button and then I’ll cut around the tummy button, I’ve shown this on other videos, and leave the tummy button on a stalk there.  There you can see there’s the stalk and the tummy button will have its own blood supply.  So you can see there’s the tummy button on the stalk and I’ll shorten that tummy button to give a nice natural curve to the tummy button area.

So here I am making a lower incision, so I’ll do that with the knife as you can see here.  She’s had spinal anaesthetic so it won’t bleed very much and she’ll have good pain relief.  Here I’ve just elevated that excess skin so you can see that’s all the excess skin I’ve removed and I’m just going to divide it in the middle.  I like to remove the skin in two parts so I’m dividing from that lower incision, right up to the tummy button, remember where there’s a stalk on the tummy button so I’m going to remove right up to there.  In this case, there’s really quite a lot of skin, much more than is usually found in these cases.  So you can see I’m going really right up there to the tummy button, still a bit of a way to go to the tummy button but I’m nearly there now. 

So this is up to the tummy button, this is the skin I’m going to remove, this is how far I’ve elevated the skin and then the skin’s going to be pulled down in this area.  Here you can see from the other angle, that’s the tummy button I’m just holding in my left hand there, I’m going to shorten that.  You can see how big she was by how long the tummy button stalk is.  Here I am just cutting, this is the upper incision here so very careful to keep the midline.  I do everything here cutting down the middle so everything’s going to be nice and accurate and then this is just cleaning up either side.  Then really the next stage is to just remove that excess skin.  So you can see that’s where the tummy button is, I was indicating with my left hand that’s where it’s going to go, that’s the tummy button and that’s going to come through the skin there.

So the next stage is really to bring the tummy button through that hole that I’ve created there and sew it in with absorbable stitches and then to remove the skin.  So in this case, I’m removing approximately 30cm of skin from that area vertically.  So here we go, I’m just going to cut through the skin here, you can see we’re holding it down, this is the skin I’m going to remove.  As I said, 30cm of skin in this case because she’s really lost so much weight and it’s almost as if the skin doesn’t fit her adequately now.  So this is the skin I’ve removed, you can see here, from either side.  In total, I removed almost three kilos from this lady and you can see that’s the skin from the front and I’m going to perform a very similar procedure on the back, removing skin from the back.

So I hope you’ve found this video interesting, if you’d like any information about this type of surgery following weight loss or any other type of treatment, please visit our website or give us a ring on our phone number.  Thank you very much for watching.

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