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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Inner Thigh Lifts

Background: Large amounts of weight loss, whether from bariatric surgery or through non-surgical diet and exercise, has an overall body deflation effect. This is manifest as loose skin which can be seen from the neck down to below the knees. All of this loose skin has created a whole spectrum of new body contouring procedures Read More…

The L-Shaped Inner Thigh Lift

One of the common body contouring procedures for the bariatric or extreme weight loss patient is the need for thigh lifts. While not usually part of the first stage body contouring efforts, it often is part of a second or third stage makeover effort. The problem with the thigh lift is that the traditional medial Read More…

Complication Rates of Inner Thigh Lifts

There are may women who are not happy with the appearance of their inner thighs. But when significant weight loss has occurred after dieting or bariatric surgery, the inner thigh can develop considerable loose skin which is maximally unaesthetic in its appearance. This is the most common patient in which an inner thigh lift (medial Read More…

The Inner Thigh Gap – Can It Be Created?

The shape of the thighs has long been an aesthetic interest/concern for some women. The most common thigh deformity are saddle bags, those outward protrusions that violate a straight or gently convex curve from the hip down to the knee. But the inner thigh is also an area of thigh insecurity as well with bulges Read More…

Postoperative Instructions: Inner Thigh Lifts

Inner thigh lifts are done to recontour the bulging or full area between the inside of the upper legs. In some cases, it is done to correct sagging inner thigh skin after a large amount of weight loss. Through a crecent removal of skin of varying widths with the upper end in the groin crease, Read More…

Thighplasty (Thigh Lifts) after Extreme Weight Loss

The thighs suffer loose and hanging skin after extreme weight loss and often look like ‘wax melting on a candle’. Thigh lifts or thighplasty is the plastic surgery procedure that can address some of these issues. Thigh liftsconsist of a variety of procedures that differ based on the location and extent of the procedure. There Read More…

The Thigh Lift in the Bariatric Surgery Patient

For many massive weight loss patients (> 100 lbs), the thigh is often the last stage of body contouring that is done. It is always a good idea to see how much result you can get in the thighs after the abdominoplasty/panniculectomy/circumferential body is completed first. While these procedures won’t make a dramatic difference Read More…