Patients with massive weight loss, either by post-bariatric body contouring surgery or by diet and exercise, are often left with a significant amount of skin. Although it is wonderful that they have taken off the weight, and certainly it is healthy, quite often their care is not completed at that point. Sometimes the excess skin is not only unsightly but interferes with exercise, living a healthy lifestyle, and can also often be the source of troublesome rashes and infections. There are many procedures that are done, depending upon the area of the body. Areas of the body that are often treated for excess skin go everywhere from the face and neck down through the breasts, the arms, the chest wall, the abdomen, the belly, the back, the buttocks, and the thighs. A regimen for addressing these areas needs to be customized for each individual patient.

Dr. Andrew Elkwood