Getting Back To Shape After Weight-Loss Surgery
wkow.com, 7th April 2010
Very often patients who lost weight thanks to the weight-loss surgery are still not happy with their shape. Excess skin looks heavy and even healthy diet and exercising cannot do much about it.
The good news is a new procedure, called coset trunkplasty, that “removes a significant amount of skin from the entire abdomen, from the flanks, from the lower chest, even the upper back and the lower back”, says Dr. Moya from Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Medical Center.
The surgery consists on removing a big circle of skin from the abdomen, the tightening the abdominal wall and pulling the skin closed. Then the excess skin is removed under the breastbone and at the lower waistline.
The procedure is tailored to the individual need of each patient. Any weight from 1 to 30 pounds can be removed during one operation.
