Brachioplasty: excess skin Down

Rapid weight loss, weakened muscles, weight, age - all of which can help to ensure that in the hands of the triceps is formed in the "extra" skin. Ugly sagging folds are able to deliver a lot of grief. What to do? Plastic surgeon to. M. N., A member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, a member of the Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons of Russia EI Karpov advises brachioplasty.

- The age and / or as a consequence of a sharp weight loss appear excess tissue in the region of the inner surface of the shoulder (from the elbow to the underarm area), manifesting excess skin sag and local deposition of fat in that area. Conservative methods of correction in a variety of cosmetic procedures are not always able to solve the problem of deformation of the shoulder, and then require surgical correction - skin tightening the inner surface of the shoulder - brachioplasty .

Brachioplasty It is excision excess skin on the inner surface of the forearm from the elbow to the armpit, after pre-liposuction of this area. With little excess skin can perform elepsovidnoe excision of tissue in cases of significant excess skin in the shoulder area, performed with classical technique brachioplasty skin incision on the type of "fish tail" after the close of which the scar is formed on the inner surface of the shoulder of the letter "T". The choice of method will depend on the brachioplasty expression of tissue shoulder strain.

The main drawback of this operation is the scar that runs from the armpit to the elbow on the inner surface of the shoulder. Unfortunately, alternative methods to get rid of excess skin after weight loss especially except brachioplasty simply does not exist.

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