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- Brachioplasty Before Surgery
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- Brachioplasty Result at 10 months
Brachioplasty surgery has been called the “Arm Lift” and it kinda does “lift” the arm. The areas treated in the upper arm have been called amongst other things “Bat Wings.” Surgery tightens the skin around the upper arm which can hang unattractively in those who have lost a good deal of weight. This varies of course.
Traditional brachioplasty surgery is performed through an incision (and leaves a scar) from the arm pit to the elbow. Care is taken to try to make the scar fall into a less often seen area when the arms are at the sides. The scars from surgery take a year or more to mature and are often not the prettiest even when efforts are made to make them so at surgery.
Short scar techniques have come around, but in many cases either fail to fix the problem adequately or bind the arm to the chest in a disabling manner.
The bottom line on brachioplasty is that the “short scar” methods are probably more risky than they are worth and the scars from surgery take a year or more to mature in many cases. Still for the gastric bypass patient these operations are occasionally desirable.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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A Nice Breast Lift/Implant and Arm Lift “Before & After” from the practice
Originally posted 2011-07-27 07:30:28.
I had my brachioplasty (both arms from pit to elbow) two years ago come this October. The scars are finally fading, but widened to half an inch in some places early in healing because, as my surgeon said, there’s no way to take all the traction off the incision while it heals. I’m still pretty happy with the outcome because I had some major flappage after gastric bypass.
I had a breast reduction at the same time. I wouldn’t recommend combining the procedures. I must say recovering from the breast reduction was way more painful than the pannulectomy (10 pounds of skin removed) I had the year before. Having my arms messed up at the same time made getting dressed an exercise in futility. I’d do it again … just separately … with the same plastic surgeon.
One thing I would recommend all cosmetic surgeons do is suggest emotional counselling or support for women having breast reductions. AND have a good stock of or suggest a supplier for supportive garmets with the required compression post surgery.