Dr. Howie Levinson, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, discusses surgical body contouring options for patients after significant weight loss.
My name is Howie Levinson. I'm a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and I work for a Centra medical group. You know, weight loss comes in all shapes and sizes. No pun intended. Uh You have your people, we all think about the people when you say that medically are losing 100 £5200 sort of the bariatric patients or the patients. Now on the um the medical blockers, right? That have become Ozempic kind of drugs. That's one example that have become very hot topics lately, right? Uh, not everybody is a massive weight loss patient. Sometimes people are losing 20 or 40 or £50 right? Um But nonetheless, they all want body contouring and that comes in different forms. So, um that either can be reconstructive or cosmetic. Frequently it turns out to be cosmetic, um where we can still help the patients and get them to where they want to go, which without surgery would not be possible. It's just they'd have to be willing to accept the fact that that's cosmetic in other cases, it's reconstructive and there's a sort of a list of um, ways to sort of differentiate that, that insurance companies look at, but the body contouring is removing the extra tissue on the belly. Sometimes it's tightening up the muscles of the belly or repositioning the belly button. Um, that goes around to the waist line, it goes around to the back, uh the thighs with the thigh, plasty and liposuction as well as surgery that includes the upper arms with brachioplasty, same sort of thing, liposuction and removing uh the extra tissue and certainly with the breasts that can be a breast lift, it can be a breast lift with an augmentation. So that's an augmentation, mastopexy, um or sometimes a breast reduction. So it can vary. It depends on what the patient's needs are. But there's a lot of work that can be done. And without surgery, it's just like having a, a bag. And if you have a bag full of, I don't know, products in it balls in it or whatever pairs and, and you take the pairs out, you got extra bag, nothing's gonna make that extra bag go away. No non surgical approach is ever gonna work on the gym isn't gonna work and dieting isn't gonna work. You have to do some tailoring um uh for the extra material or the extra tissue. And that's what we do as plastic surgeons is tailor so that people can kind of get back on the road to who they want to be. It helps with their self confidence, self esteem and quite frankly, how they look how they feel. Sometimes they have rashes or infections because of the estrogen tissue um that all gets managed. So it really for the person who's going on that, that life changing journey, we just see ourselves as partners in that journey. We're there for part of the journey, not all of it, we have a role and we want to help them on their way to kind of get to where they want to go so that they can um feel healthy, happy, uh young and fit and really enjoy their lives. It's really important.
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