Liposuction is a procedure that can help sculpt the body by removing unwanted fat from specific areas, including the abdomen, hips, buttocks, thighs, knees, upper arms, chin, cheeks and neck. During the past decade, liposuction, which is also known as "lipoplasty" or "suction lipectomy," has benefited from several new refinements. Today, a number of new techniques, including ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty (UAL), the tumescent technique, and the super-wet technique, are helping many plastic surgeons to provide selected patients with more precise results and quicker recovery times.

Surgery After Weight Loss

Surgery After Bariatric Surgery (stomach stapling)

Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery

Those who are overweight often will try anything to lose weight and get back into shape. Some are able to accomplish their goals through diet and exercise, but many find that their very weight interferes with exercise and confounds the problem. In other words, they can't exercise because of their weight, and they can't lose weight because they cannot exercise. Often, these people choose to have bariatric surgery, which is also referred to as stomach stapling. This has been very effective in producing significant weight loss, safely.

Whether one loses weight through diet and exercise or through bariatric surgery, there are a few obstacles that arise BECAUSE of the weight loss...loose skin. Here's what happens: when someone is overweight, the skin stretches to accommodate the increased volume of weight. After weight loss, the skin often fails to tighten, and so it sags. In many cases, it hangs. It acts as a constant reminder of the weight you once were. Further diet and exercise WILL NOT tighten skin (exercise never tightens skin - only muscles). The only way to tighten loose skin is through surgery.

A body lift, by the way, is the combination of tummy tuck, inner thigh lift, and outer thigh/buttock lift

Not if your problem is due to loose skin. The only time lipo is a better choice is when there is alot of fat and the skin is tight.

Scars result any time skin is removed. The more skin that is removed, the more extensive are the scars. For a body lift, they will extend from along the lower abdomen, around the hips, and toward the buttock crease. There is another scar in each groin crease due to the inner thigh lift. One way to look at it is that this operation exchanges one cosmetic problem (loose skin) for another (scars). In general, those with very loose saggy skin following significant weight loss are likely to find this exchange worthwhile. Those with a small amount of looseness will probably not want the scars.

Thigh & Buttock Lifts

A thigh, hip and buttock lift is a serious surgical procedure and intended to tighten the skin of the outer thighs, buttocks and hips. During this operation elliptical segments of skin and underlying fat are removed from the buttock and flank area. Any remaining skin and tissue is reconstructed to achieve a tightening and smoothing effect. The operation is designed to improve skin and underlying tissues that  becomes loose and flabby, whether as a result of massive weight loss, natural aging, or heredity. Although the operation is often combined with liposuction it's aimed primarily at the tightening of skin and deep tissue. As with liposuction, it is not a correction for obesity, and patients should be at normal or near-normal weight before surgery.

Thigh and buttock lifts require general anaesthesia.  The Duration of operation is about two and a half to three hours.  Patient are gennerally  admitted to the hospital on the morning of the surgery and discharged one or two days later.
Postoperative Procedure requires that the patient will remain in bed until the morning after surgery. If a urinary catheter was inserted during the operation, it's usually removed the next morning. The insertion as well as removal of the catheter is relatively painless. Patients receive intravenous fluids for 24 hours after surgery, and some discomfort and pain at the incision site are to be expected, but this will be alleviated with medication and will gradually subside when the patient begins to walk.
The bandage over the incision is normaly removed the day after surgery, and the patient will then be allowed to shower. It will be difficult to sit for several days after the operation. Generally, the patient should be able to sit comfortably by the end of the first week. Physical activity after surgery  should be restricted to rest at home for about two weeks after surgery. Walking and other activities can be resumed gradually during the second week, and most people return to work after two weeks.
Participation in strenuous sporting activities is prohibited for at least two months.
The patient can expect a horizontal scar in the upper buttock/flank area, extending from the midline in the back to the groin area in the front. There will be scars on both sides. The incision scars are  positioned so that it is covered by panties or a bathing suit. The patient should bring a pair of panties or a bathing suit of the type that he or she normally wears (and we are not obliviously talking about a string bikini or speedos here) to the hospital. Although every effort will be made to keep the scars symmetrical, perfect symmetry is not always possible. The type and location of scars may vary due to patients' individual anatomic characteristics. The physician will, however, inform the patient during the consultation what type of scar can be expected. The scars will be kept as short and inconspicuous as possible, but the nature of this operation necessitates long cuts and, inevitably, long scars.

The scars will be red for the first few months after surgery, but that will gradually fade. However, the patient should realize that the scars are permanent, and that their final width, height and color are not totally predictable but should diminish to a point over time.  The most common complication is haematoma (an accumulation of blood under the skin). This occurs infrequently, but may necessitate further surgery to drain the blood. 

You will want to thoroughly discuss all the ramifications of a surgery of this nature with your surgeon. As you will find you may have to give up certain habits when undergoing a surgery of this type, and one of those will include smoking (a major butt lift).

Arm Lift

Desire for a more youthful appearance and thinner contour to the Arms
Focusing on flabbiness and extra skin and fat, especially in the upper inner arms
Also related to folds of skin and fat of the upper chest near the Armpit, seen especially when the Arms are down at the sides.

The Result

Beautiful, balanced and proportioned contour.
More confident and comfortable in clothing, especially sleeveless dresses.
Lasts the rest of your life and always looks better than if you didn't do it.
Natural and presentable appearance in the first week that just gets better over the next three to six months.