Plastic Surgery in the Ex-Obese

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbBRU1m4o8[/embed] It is increasingly common for people to lose a lot of weight, whether with the help of surgeries, medications or diets. As a result, surgical procedures such as abdominoplasty, mammoplasty, cruroplasty, and brachioplasty are becoming more and more common to improve the quality of life of these patients. Watch the video for more details with Dr. Fernando Amato (CRM 133826). ----transcript-- The majority of the population is overweight, and more than 20% of them are already obese. Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes and hypertension. In order to avoid complications of obesity, bariatric surgery has been growing rapidly. So now we have many ex-obese patients with large weight losses, whether due to bariatric surgery or even diet, and these patients who have experienced these large losses begin to have sequelae, which is excess skin on the body. This excess skin on the body appears mainly in the abdomen, being the main region treated. The treatment of the abdomen is abdominoplasty, and it can be done with a traditional, horizontal scar or dermolipectomy with an anchor incision, which is more commonly used in these patients with large weight losses. The second most common surgery performed in these patients is mammoplasty. It can be a reduction mammoplasty, it can be a mastopexy, where the areola has lost its position, so repositioning must be done. And there is also augmentation mammoplasty, which is only implant placement. Another very common surgery is brachioplasty, which is plastic surgery on the arms, which can be done with liposuction, liposuction associated with skin resection, and this skin resection can be done longitudinally, or longitudinally with a little resection in the armpit, or also, in some more selected cases, with skin resection only in the armpit. Cruroplasty is the removal of skin on the thighs. So, a region that concentrates skin and fat after these weight losses is the inner thigh region. Thus, there is cruroplasty, and this cruroplasty can be done with liposuction associated with skin resection, and it can be in a T-shape, it can be longitudinal, or it can be in an inverted L-shape, known as a boomerang. Furthermore, there are other regions that are treated, such as the back and the gluteal region. This large weight loss, loss of volume, does not occur only in these regions, it occurs throughout the body. So there are other regions that may undergo changes and require treatment. Another example is the face. That's what I had to say about surgery in ex-obese patients. If you want more information, follow our videos. Thank you.