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| Body Contouring |
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Body Contouring is a process of removing the hanging and the loose from the body that could have been a result of a gastric bypass or stomach stapling surgery. Extra skin usually after losing its elasticity hangs from the various parts of the body such as stomach, arms, legs and chest. The full body contouring procedure includes thigh lift, tummy tuck, arm lift and liposuction. The process of body contouring is a surgical process intended to help in shaping, toning and overall improvement of the body. |
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| Details |
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| Time Required |
| Depending upon the amount of skin that needs to be removed, it takes somewhere between 2 to 3 hours for the entire procedure. Patients may require follow up procedures but after several months. |
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| Side Effects |
| Side effects may include long scars underneath arms, across hips, across stomach, inside of legs. This can take up to several years to vanish. |
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| Recovery Time |
Recovery period differs for different people. Usually, a person is back to work within 6 weeks after the surgery. Also, the persons resume normal exercise after 8 weeks.
Pain is there but it can be easily controlled by medication.
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| Risks |
| Possible risks may include the possibility of revisional surgery pain, which may persist for long. Other risks include deep vein thrombosis, cardiac, and pulmonary complications. There can also be certain risks of anesthesia, some persistent swelling in the legs, excessive bleeding (hematoma), persistent looseness of skin, numbness or other changes in skin sensation, some major wound separation. Other risks include loss of skin loss, infection, blood clots, fluid accumulation, fatty tissue found deep in the skin might die (fat necrosis), along with poor wound healing. |
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The Tummy Tuck or Abdominoplasty is the first step towards body contouring.
Excess skin removed from breast area, legs and arms. Procedures involved include arm lift, entire body lift, breast lift, and thigh lift. In another procedure, ultrasound liposuction is used for removing the unwanted fat from just any part of the body and getting the body in proper shape.
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| Cost Involved |
| Costs vary from surgeon to surgeon depending upon location of clinic, type of procedure performed. Usually, the costs include the cost for the following:
1) Medical tests
2) Medication prescription
3) Surgical costs
4) Post surgery garments
5) Anesthesia fees
6) Surgeon fees
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| Insurance Covered |
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Because of the cosmetic nature of Body Contouring , insurance is not
involved.
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| Patient Status |
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InPatient - In most cases
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| Reffered As |
| It is also known as ‘Reshaping of the body’. |
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| Discomforts |
| The patient can experience some pain in the area or there can be some minor infection. |
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