Post Weight-Loss Surgery

Patients who have lost a significant amount of weight may be left with excess skin. At the Plastic Surgery Clinic in Ontario, body contouring procedures can help shape the body by eliminating and rearranging excess skin to reveal a more youthful, attractive appearance.

DR. MARTIN JUGENBERG: The patients that loose a lot of weight either after diet or after surgery are often left with a lot of excess skin. This depends on their age and the stretchiness of their skin. If they are left with a lot of skin that is now empty without the fat they have problems with hygiene, with their activities and their appearance and they may choose to have this corrected through body contouring procedures and plastic surgery can help and what it refers to is a reshaping the body in terms of the people that lost a lot of weight it is about excess skin and the reshaping the skin that wraps around the body. Most often it is first excising the excess skin and rearranging into a shape that is more natural looking, more youthful looking.