High-Definition Lower Body Lift™

Look how pristine the incisions are. Healing beautifully. Obviously, I'm not gonna show you the pubic area, but look at that line. Come closer. Okay. So her incision is perfectly placed at the junction between the lower abdomen and the thigh. We lifted the thighs. We removed a ton of loose skin and tissue. We did a structural lift. This is her navel. She has more swelling than a skin-only body lift. Skin removal body lifts are about removing the tissue and closing the incisions. They are much easier body lifts to perform, but they give you less correction because you're just... It's like a panniculectomy in the front. You're removing the tissue and you're closing. You're not elevating the tissue. You're not repositioning the fat. Therefore, typically with skin-only body lifts, they're easier to perform, take half the time that these type of body lifts take to perform, give you about half the correction with it, and half the recovery is needed. With these type of body lifts, these are like deep plane face lifts. You get more swelling, more pain, more bruising, more recovery, and a much better result because things have been corrected at the level of the fat, not at the level of the skin. Okay. And here you go. And this is her three-dimensional silhouette. As I said, she's got 15... She tells me she's 15 pounds over her normal weight, which means she's got 15 pounds of swelling, maybe 10 pounds. Maybe she's gained a few pounds on high-nutrition and high-protein diet, which I like because I think she can use it. But 10 pounds of this is swelling, and it will take another three months, four months for it to go away. If you remember, I was planning to cut this for her because I wanted to make sure that my incisions end up pristine. When we got doing the surgery, after this was done, this area was tight, so I decided not to do it, and her incision still looks pristine, so it really did not need to be done at this stage. And we're still gonna do it. That's gonna be her next surgery when she comes back. We are already planning to cut this area and go after her arms and her breast. But also notice that we created or restored her buttocks. You know, the buttocks had a lot of skin. They had become pancakes, meaning that they had lost their projection, flattened, and became wide and long, and we had to pull that together and fix that. Another area that will help that we were talking about today is this. The posterior, which means back, of thigh lift defines the border of the buttocks, but she's okay with it, and ultimately, this is her surgery, not my surgery. So if she's happy, I'm happy. But we're gonna put more fat in here in due course, once she gains 10 to 15 pounds for me, right? Yes. And we'll finish her surgeries at that stage. So in a nutshell, what do you think? I'm very pleased. Because it's all about you, right? Very pleased. I can't wait to see it when... even when the swelling goes down. It'll be even better. Yeah. Nice correction. Yes. I mean, a ton of correction. And I like the curves. It looks good. It looks good? It looks great. Definitely the right choice. Thank you. You're welcome. Did you wanna show that? Oh, yeah, keep on rolling. So this is her only opening, and she has got a tiny opening. This is a superficial opening. And when you are having four or five feet of incisions on you... Look at the rest of her scars, though. You see it's pristine and beautiful. Yeah. Let me just rotate here. This one is a little bit more red, but the pink will go away. So she has had no openings, and I'm super pleased. But usually I tell patients that when you have four feet of incisions on you, minor openings are the name of the game with these surgeries because there is just so much happening and we are using tiny threads to put your tissues back together. So I'm super pleased with just having one of these because you can have these minor openings. It's not a big deal. You do dressing changes, and she's gonna heal. But it comes with doing a lot of incisions, and we need to do these incisions to obviously remove the excess tissue and skin and mobilize and contour and so forth. So there you go.