Before & After: Cosmetic Surgery after Massive Weight Loss

Brachioplasty and Implant Mastopexy

Focused and dedicated to becoming healthier, this patient lost over 175 pounds. But with her tremendous weight loss came a tremendous amount of loose skin. In pregnancy or any weight-gain and later weight-loss, skin's elastin fibers have been stretched to capacity. Exercise may strengthen and improve the underlying muscle tone of the upper arm, but it cannot address excess skin that has lost elasticity or underlying weakened tissue and localized fat deposits.

Our brachioplasty patient wanted to fit into the body she had always desired and worked with fierce determination towards that goal. Weight loss was the first step.

Once that goal was accomplished, she went to Dr. Bolitho to address her drooping arm skin and appreciated how he listened and took her wants and desires into consideration. She found him "caring" and respected that he was "very conservative. He didn't overpromise anything and was very calming." She was tired of buying clothes that hid her body and imagined herself one day in strapless dresses. She knew with surgery, her dreams could become a reality.

She had the brachioplasty and subsequently, the implant mastopexy. "The weight loss and surgeries made a huge difference in my life," she said. She feels that her new figure has given her "a tremendous amount of self-confidence" that she never would have had if she hadn't had the procedures.

Before she was hiding, now she finally feels comfortable in her own skin.

Lower Body Lift

Extended Abdominoplasty

Bilateral Brachioplasty

Bilateral Brachioplasty