What Is Body Contouring?
After losing a significant amount of weight, you may be left with residual deposits of fat or excess skin that has lost elasticity. Even a disciplined diet and healthy exercise may not be enough to shed the extra fat.
Body contouring
Can improve your appearance and your ability to go about your daily activities. A body contouring procedure involves surgical and non-surgical procedures to reshape and give a toned and taut appearance to various parts of the body.
From thigh contouring to breast contouring, there are techniques available to help any part of the body that you are not satisfied with.
In this article, we have discussed some of the options to get the perfect shape and get rid of stubborn fat pockets.
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Liposuction
The surgery consists of a thinning procedure that helps the desired area look more proportionate. The results are wonderful for those who have trouble with certain styles of clothing or bathing suits or for those who feel self-conscious or uncomfortable with their intimate areas.
It is a procedure that improves the body contouring through the aspiration of the fat material in regions that for different reasons present accumulation of the same. Through 5 mm incisions in the skin, blunt-tipped cannulas connected to a suction device (Liposuction) are used to suck the adipose tissue under negative pressure. It is important to mention that such surgery is not used to lose weight only to contour it.
Technical refinement has led in recent years to conceive liposuction as LIPOESCULTURA, which in some way defines the characteristics of the technique. It is comparable to that of the sculptor, who is grinding the wood with his gouge, in such a way that he models three-dimensional surfaces that, to increase the difficulty, he does not see, since they are covered by the skin.
- Surgery time: 2-4 hours
- Type of anesthesia: Epidural block
- Hospitalization time: Outpatient or one day
- Recovery: one to two weeks
- Post-operative recommendations will be indicated to the patient in a timely manner at each appointment, depending on the complexity of the procedure.
Abdominoplasty
After pregnancy in women or excessive weight loss, abdominal skin flaccidity becomes evident, as well as damage to the muscle wall, especially the rectus abdominis muscles.
Abdominoplasty consists of the resection of a segment of skin and abdominal fat at the same time as the normal tension of the muscular wall is repaired. It is one of the most frequent interventions in the specialty.
This body contouring is one of the aesthetic interventions that cause the most discomfort to the cosmetic surgeon due to the large dimensions of the scar and at the same time, it is one of the most satisfying to patients due to the important change that it determines in their silhouette.
It is frequently combined with lip sculpture of those fat accumulations that are not diminished by weight loss.
- Body contouring time: 2-3 hours
- Type of anesthesia: Epidural block
- Hospitalization time: 1 day of hospitalization
- Recovery: two to three weeks
- Post-operative recommendations will be indicated to the patient in a timely manner at each appointment, depending on the complexity of the procedure.
Buttock Augmentation
Buttock augmentation is one of the most frequent body contouring. Two widely accepted techniques can be used, which are the injection of autologous fat (from the same patient) and the placement of silicone implants.
Regarding the injection of gluteal fat (lip injection), it is a very striking alternative for the patient, since this fat is obtained after liposuction and after a special process, it is placed in the gluteal muscle to achieve a harmonious increase.
The other alternative is silicone implants, which give more prominent results, which are not normally achieved with lip injection, being the most indicated technique when the patient wants a greater volume.
It is always recommended that for gluteal implants liposuction is associated, to give a better definition to this region of the body. Under no point of view is it recommended to inject other substances into the buttocks, since this would lead to disastrous long-term results, due to the reaction to a foreign body.
With regard to lip injection, the type of anesthesia, surgery time, recovery, and hospitalization are included in what concerns liposuction for buttock implants.
- Surgery time: 1-2 hours
- Type of anesthesia: Epidural block
- Hospitalization time: 1 day of hospitalization
- Recovery: two to three weeks
- Post-operative recommendations will be indicated to the patient in a timely manner at each appointment, depending on the complexity of the procedure.
Increase Calf
It is usually indicated in cases of atrophy (decrease in volume) of the calf due to accidents, injuries, or nerve sequelae. This body contouring is also common in patients who have extremely thin legs in proportion to their hips and thorax.
They are silicone implants that are placed on the back of the knee by making a pocket in front of the calf muscles. One or two prostheses can be placed according to need. It is important to show that these prostheses do not increase the size and thickness of the ankle.
- Surgery time: 1-2 hours
- Type of anesthesia: Epidural block
- Hospitalization time: 1 day of hospitalization
- Recovery: two to three weeks
- Post-operative recommendations will be indicated to the patient in a timely manner at each appointment, depending on the complexity of the procedure.
Brachioplasty
This type of body contouring aims to improve the contour of the arms, either by means of liposuction or by resection of excess skin, also using the combination of both procedures, depending on the severity of the cases. Sometimes the main drawback of surgery is the scar, which is sometimes visible, which can compensate with the aesthetic result achieved in the contour.
- Surgery time: 2-3 hours
- Type of anesthesia: General anesthesia or Sedation + local anesthesia
- Hospitalization time: 1 day of hospitalization
- Recovery: two to three weeks
- The post-operative recommendations will be indicated to the patient in a timely manner at each appointment, depending on the complexity of the procedure.
Cruroplasty
This type of body contouring aims to improve the contour of the thighs, either through liposuction or by resection of excess skin, also using a combination of both procedures, depending on the severity of the cases.
Sometimes the main drawback of surgery is the scar, which is sometimes visible, which can compensate with the aesthetic result achieved in the contour.
- Surgery time: 2-3 hours
- Type of anesthesia: General anesthesia or Sedation + local anesthesia
- Hospitalization time: 1 day of hospitalization
- Recovery: two to three weeks
- The post-operative recommendations will be indicated to the patient in a timely manner at each appointment, depending on the complexity of the procedure.
Body Lifting
It is a term that encompasses a range of procedures used for the aesthetic reconstruction of those patients who had excessive weight loss due to some type of bariatric surgery (treatment of obesity).
It is important to note that to undergo this type of body contouring, prior preparation is required by a multidisciplinary team made up of the nutritionist, endocrinologist, and psychologist, as well as having all the necessary hospital resources, in order to have the desired success.
Hope this article helps you if you are thinking of getting body contouring treatment. You have several options to choose the way which is best for you.