ARM LIFT PROCEDURES After Weight Loss

If you’ve lost a dramatic amount of weight, you already know the exhilaration of stepping on the scales and seeing that pounds are dropping off. And, you know the added joy of arriving at a day that you thought might never come—the day you reached your goal weight. But now, some of that delight may now be tempered by the fact that you find yourself with excess skin because of the weight loss.

As you probably know, this extra skin does not respond to exercise or more dieting. But, there is a way to resolve the problem: plastic surgeons can remove this extra skin. In this article, we’ll review a bariatric plastic surgery procedure for removing excess skin from the upper arms.

Arm Lift

The surgical procedure, called brachioplasty, or an “arm lift,” restores the contours of your arms from the elbow to the underarm. Arm lifts are becoming more and more popular following massive weight loss. Last year, about 9,000 people underwent arm lifts, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Click here to read more.