Facelift After Massive Weight Reduction - Your Options

Massive Weight Loss occurs when you lose greater than 50 - 100 pounds. Most patients have bariatric surgery, which is surgery to help make the stomach smaller or the intestinal pathways, or both, to lessen food intake. Patients often conclude with loose skin in multiple areas, this is why their facelifts are different from the standard facelift. If you're one of these patients, first of all CONGRATULATIONS! You have made a wonderful and hard decision to lose your weight, reduce your risks of hypertension and diabetes, and take a huge first step to permanently changing your lifestyle. It's not a simple decision to make.


In case you are one of these patients who has lost significant amounts of weight, you will probably finish up having more loose epidermis than the average renovation patient. To tighten the facial structures, the SMAS (superficial musculo-aponeurotic system) may need to be tightened more. You may also desire a more Kim Kardashian Weight Loss aggressive necklift because, you may have more loose neck pores and skin and jowling present. Typically, plastic surgeons do not have to create a long incision behind the ear canal for a facelift. However, if you've lost more than 50 or 75 pounds recently, they may have to create a longer incision to accommodate the more amount of skin they have to tighten. Plastic surgeons may even have to extend the incision into your tresses line.

If you're a man, especially a balding men, after massive weight loss, you could have the same length incision, but it might be harder to hide. Some of my patients have experienced an incision behind the ear and hidden at the base of their hairline. Also, facial hair together the sideburn areas need to be carefully re-draped to provide a natural sideburn line after surgery. Your nasolabial folds and the areas under your eye may have more free skin than an average facelift patient, so you may need to have those areas released and possibly undergo eyelid lifts to get the best result possible.

If you've had bariatric surgery, you are often are given a perfect body weight goal to achieve. You need to be secure at your ideal bodyweight for 6 months or longer to get the best results from your facelift. Also you may need pre-surgical clearance from your primary care physician before you undergo general anesthesia. Health insurance will generally not cover cosmetic rejuvenation after massive weight loss, so you will generally undergo a face lift and necklift under cosmetic surgery rates.