A body lift is not only about removing loose skin. It is about restoring shape, proportion, and lower-body contour when the body has changed in ways that diet, exercise, skin tightening, or liposuction alone cannot correct.
For many patients, these changes happen after GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic®, Wegovy®, or Mounjaro®. The weight may come off, but loose skin, flattened buttocks, thigh laxity, lower-back folds, and loss of waist definition can remain.
For other patients, lower-body laxity and contour changes develop gradually with aging, genetics, poor skin elasticity, prior surgery, or natural changes in tissue support.
These patients may not have gone through massive weight loss, but they may still have sagging tissue, poor waist-to-hip definition, buttock descent, or lower-body shape concerns that require more than liposuction.
Dr. Siamak Agha’s body lift approach is designed to go beyond simply tightening skin. The goal is to reshape the lower body with attention to proportion, contour, tissue support, scar placement, and three-dimensional balance.
On this page, you can watch real post-op consultation videos with Dr. Agha’s patients and see how body lift surgery can improve the abdomen, waist, hips, buttocks, thighs, and lower body.
Before-and-after photos are helpful, but post-op consultation videos show something different.
They show the body in motion. They show how Dr. Agha evaluates contour, scars, shape, symmetry, tissue support, and healing. They also help patients understand that advanced body lift surgery is not just about removing excess skin. It is about reshaping the body in a way that looks balanced from the front, side, and back.
As you watch these videos, pay attention to:
This video grid features real post-op consultation videos with Dr. Agha’s body lift patients.
These patients are shown after surgery so you can see more than a still before-and-after photo. The videos show how the body looks in motion, how Dr. Agha evaluates the result, and how changes in the waist, hips, buttocks, thighs, lower back, scars, tissue support, and overall shape are reviewed during follow-up visits.
For GLP-1 patients, the concern is often that the weight came off, but the body still looks loose, flat, unsupported, or poorly shaped.
For aging patients, the concern may be gradual tissue descent, weaker support, loss of waist definition, buttock flattening, or a lower body that no longer looks as firm or balanced as it once did.
As you watch these videos, look for the difference between a body that is simply tightened and a body that is reshaped, supported, and better balanced.
Board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Siamak Agha, MD, PhD, FACS has spent over 20 years perfecting the art of body contouring and body lift surgery. During this time, Dr. Agha has pioneered new techniques in the field of plastic surgery after weight loss. These include the High-Definition Body Lift™, Spiral Thigh Lift, Internal Dermal Bra Breast Lift, J-Thoracoplasty and various buttocks augmentation and reshaping procedures. Dr. Siamak Agha is:
Dr. Agha’s body lift surgery is designed around three-dimensional shape, not just skin removal.
For GLP-1 patients, this often means correcting loose skin, tissue descent, flattening, and loss of contour after weight reduction. For aging patients, it may mean improving lower-body shape, waist definition, hip balance, lower-back contour, and buttock position after changes in skin elasticity and tissue support.
Every body lift is customized to the patient’s anatomy. The goal is to create a more balanced relationship between the abdomen, waist, hips, buttocks, thighs, and lower back.
Rather than simply pulling the skin tighter, advanced body lift surgery may involve repositioning and anchoring deeper tissues to help support the new contour and create a more stable, intentional shape.
This is why body lift surgery requires more than removing extra skin. It requires judgment, planning, tissue anchoring, scar placement, and an understanding of how the body will look as a complete three-dimensional shape.
Body lift surgery is one of the most complex areas of plastic surgery. It requires experience with skin laxity, tissue descent, scar planning, tissue movement, tissue anchoring, body proportions, and long-term shape. Dr. Agha performs one of the highest numbers of body lift and advanced body contouring procedures in the country.
This depth of experience matters because body lift surgery is not just about removing skin. It is about creating a result that looks balanced, intentional, supported, and appropriate for the patient’s body.
| Procedure | Average number of body procedures performed by a typical Plastic Surgeon per year (ASPS) | Average Number of body procedures performed by Dr. Agha per year | Total Number of Procedures performed by Dr. Agha up to 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Body Lift + Revisions | 1 | 27 | 566 |
| Thighplasty | 1.2 | 36+ | 614 |
| Brachioplasty | 2.1 | 22+ | 389 |
| Upper Body Lifts | N/A | 17+ | 297 |
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