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Post-Bariatric Plastic Surgery IQ

After bariatric surgery, if you’ve kept the weight off successfully, you may opt for plastic or reconstructive surgery to remove excess or sagging skin. How much do you know about the different plastic procedures? Take our quick quiz to find out.

True or False?

1. Breast reduction patients report a high rate of symptom relief (70-100 percent).
2. The most time-consuming of common post-WLS cosmetic surgeries, in which the patient spends the most time under anesthesia, is abdominoplasty, or tummy tuck.
3. Breast augmentation is the most performed type of cosmetic surgery.
4. Silicone breast implants are more expensive than saline implants.
5. If you think your earlobes are too big, you can have an earlobe reduction.
6. The physician’s or surgeon’s fees quoted for the price of a cosmetic surgery are about what you can expect to pay out of pocket.
7. A thigh lift requires you to miss about a week of work in order to recover.
8. Surgical treatment of gynecomastia, or enlarged breasts in males, is permanent.
9. Results of a buttock lift are permanent.
10. Surgeons can now fully eradicate the appearance of cellulite.

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