Post bariatric surgery: What is Body Lifting?

Post Bariatric Surgery is body shaping procedures in order to correct/fix sagging, excess and deformations (30-90 kg weight loss in a short time) after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy performed to the patients with overweight (BMI>40).

Bariatrics is the treatment in order to prevent obesity. Bariatric is the field of specialization of the endocrinologist/nutritionist, bariatric surgery is the field of specialization of the general surgeons, and post-bariatric surgery is the field of specialization of the plastic surgeons. In this 10-line article, the information about post bariatric surgery and the conditions under which these procedures can be performed are provided. These procedures are called body lifting.

1. In order to reshape to body, the body lift is a surgically remove of excess fat from body, which causes deformation due to excessive and/or rapid weight loss. For many plastic surgeons, the body lift is performed together with hip and thigh stretching as well as abdominal stretching operation.

2. The people who need to surgical operation are the patients who have excessive and rapid weight loss (after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy) and severe deformation on body areas and contours with excess and sagging skin. The difference of this operation from the liposuction is surgical remove of not only fatty tissues but also sagging skin. In addition, during the body lifting surgery, liposuction is used to as a supplementary procedure to give shape the relevant body areas without risking the life of the patient.
3. For the body lifting procedure, patients need to reach ideal weight in order to remove sagging tissues and skin to give shape. It should not be forgotten that the gaining and losing weight after the surgery may damage to the aesthetical results provided.

4. General body shaping is completed with stretching of the back, jowl, arm and pubic areas (monsplasty) at the same session with body lifting surgery or another session.

5. The operation can take 4-6 hours depending on the prevalence of the surgeon.

6. The body lifting operations should be done by general and experienced anesthetists and in the general hospitals with intensive care units. A detailed check-up before the operation is necessary. The patients with high surgical risk, such as heavy smokers, should not be operated

7. As they never get back to their old health performance, the people who have undergone risk laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy/vertical banded gastroplasty surgery in order to lose weight as soon as possible, should not go into operation until recovery period is completed. According to some researchers, this period is at least 2 year for the people under 30 years. Cardiologic/psychological surveillance/evaluation before the operation is particularly necessary for patients in this group

8. After these long operations, you can return your daily activities exactly after 2 weeks, you can go your work at the 4^th week and you can make exercises at the end of 2^nd month. After the operation, the patient is required to adopt a lifestyle that includes a healthy and sustainable nutrition/exercise program.

9. The surgeon who will operate should be an experienced and reliable plastic surgery specialist. Possible complications, preparation for operation, necessary consultations before the surgery, aesthetical expectations and protective and health life suggestions that are necessary to be made after surgery should be asked to the plastic surgery specialist and you should follow your body and health very well in this sense.

10. Although it is stated that the bariatric surgery procedures decrease the mortality rate due to obesity complications, I think that the procedure carries extremely risks. Instead of this, I believe that people can reach ideal health status and physical appearance by carefully doing risk/advantages analysis and planning nutrition and daily activities program even though it takes time.

With diet or one-type nutrition programs, you simply lose weight and become depressed frequently due to some chemicals in the brain, instead of this, if you eat properly and do exercises, you can shape your body healthily and perfectly.

In these programs, which are holistic and can be updated, you can eat healthily, and you have the opportunity to get maximum benefit from your own health capacity, and you don’t need to pay for surgery. The average price of shaping surgeries for the whole body is higher than the price of the new car.

Beauty and physically-fit body, is natural subsidiary product of a healthy body.

Any beauty and body form which is not gained with healthy ways is not permanent and sustainable.

Eating is a brain function, stomach is the digestive organ. If you want to have operation for a healthy organ, it should be a brain region which causes this, rather than stomach for excess weight.

Do not play with the factory settings of your health, by taking great risks do not have vertical banded gastroplasty or do not throw it away. No turning back