Plastic surgery - How we can resculpt your body

Shift your love handles Body lifts, are traditionally used to remove rolls of fat left when someone has lost lots of weight

This lift is about as invasive as plastic surgery gets and can involve a scar around your waist or bikini line.

So why have these procedures become popular?

As we loose significant weight the skin has only one way to go…. Saggy and down And people who have lost their elasticity of the skin are looking to make further improvements beyond their weight loss.

An alternative compromise is limiting the lift the areas of greatest concern. ie. an abdominoplasty or one of the thigh lifts.

Remake your bottom A lot of excitement is being generated about buttock implants - which involve having pear-shaped silicone gel implants or fat injections (using fat harvested and grafted from another area of your body) added to buttocks to make them rounder and more pert. It follows a South America trend where buttock implants and fat filling are popular

Tighten your “Tata” or “bingo arms” Loss of skin elasticity is a key driver for surgery because it is the only answer for problems such as saggy skin on upper arms - no amount of push-ups or firming creams are going to shift these. Surgeons have now in addition to the conventional liposuction procedure used to suck fat out of this area, can now combine liposuction with state-of-the-art arm lifts. These involve making a small incision in a patients’ arm, removing the fat via liposuction, pulling excess skin up towards the shoulder and closing the wound deep inside the armpit so it can’t be seen.

The process, currently all the rage in Mexico and Brazil and catching on in Europe, takes just 90 minutes, but the downside is the downtime: patients cannot lift their arms for up to five weeks after surgery.

Give you shapelier thighs While liposuction is still popular for ironing out saddlebags on thighs. Experimental procedures such as lipo-dissolve are as yet unproven .

If you considering cosmetic surgery, do plenty of research into the procedure you are interested in first, and to go to an plastic surgeon for treatment. The ASPS can help you find one; call 02 94379200 or visit ASPS