Losing a large amount of weight is exceedingly difficult. It doesn’t matter if you achieved the loss with the help of bariatric surgery, or if you did it through sheer willpower. You’re now down to the weight you’ve dreamed of, but there remains a problem — your skin. Without the weight to support it, your […]
As we age everything sags. Couple natural aging with the loss of a good deal of weight and there will be sagging everywhere. The loose skin on your stomach? You’ll see that every time you look in the mirror. But, while you may have just as much hanging, loose skin on your back, you’ll never […]
As we get older or after a person has lost a good deal of weight it’s not uncommon to look at our backs and not like what we see. Sagging skin or bulges of uneven skin can make a person not want to wear certain types of clothing or a bathing suit. For women, the […]
Liposuction first came to the United States from France in the 1980s. Originally it was a pretty violent procedure. Patients had to be under general anesthesia and the doctor had to move the cannula (the tube inserted to suction out the fat) back and forth in a very aggressive manner to break lose the fat […]
When a person has lost a large amount of weight, either through a serious diet and exercise regimen or through bariatric surgery, they can be left with sagging, loose skin all over their body. Having done the hard work of losing the weight, now they are depressed by how their skin didn’t return to its […]
You might want to reconsider your options. Here at our Bay Area cosmetic surgery practice, men and women seek Dr. Lavey’s expertise to help reshape their bodies after massive weight loss or childbirth. However, there are still a few patients who are quite misled about what each plastic surgery procedure can and cannot do for […]
