Skin excess after gastric bypass surgery?
After gastric bypass surgery, your gastrointestinal system can absorb fewer nutrients than necessary to maintain your weight so you will lose weight at first. How much that is varies from person to person. After a period of 6-12 months, your weight stabilizes and you will know how much you have lost. Depending on the amount of weight loss, there is an effect on the skin. Because: the less volume left, the saggier the skin will become.
Is the effect of skin correction after weight loss permanent?
The effects of substantial weight loss on the skin are mainly sagging skin. That skin is going to droop. This is often most obvious in the abdomen, breasts, upper arms and thighs (the 4 B’s and sometimes the buttocks). The elasticity of that skin is gone and the skin does not shrink back. The only way to get the skin reasonably tight again is to take out a piece in between. That means a tummy tuck, a breast elevator (with or without augmentation to replenish lost volume), an arm elevator and a thigh elevator. Such corrections come with scars, and especially the tummy tuck and thigh elevator are major procedures after which you cannot work and exercise for weeks.
In people who have lost a lot of weight due to gastric bypass surgery, the elasticity of the skin is virtually gone. After a correction for excess skin, we often see that the skin slackens slightly afterwards but otherwise the effect is long-lasting. Provided the weight remains reasonably stable, of course. And logically, over the years the skin will sag a bit, just like everyone else.
Is skin correction dangerous?
At Essenza Clinics, we specialize in skin correction after weight loss. That specialization means that we do everything we can to minimize the risk of complications. Consider certain medications you will receive during and after surgery, proper temperature regulation, an experienced team around your surgery and admission, and use of the best surgical techniques.
But 1 of the main things we do differently from others is that we always operate such major procedures together. This leads to a 30-50% reduction in operation time. So the wounds are open for less time, you cool down less, you are under anesthesia for a shorter period of time which means you need less medication and nausea is avoided as much as possible.
Their effect is to reduce the risk of complications and speed up recovery with fewer symptoms.
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Skin corrections after gastric surgery are always customized; the effect of weight loss is not the same in anyone. We specialize is post-bariatric surgery and can pick the best and safest options for you, depending on your problem areas and health situation.
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