After significant weight loss the skin envelope can exceed the volume beneath it. This is a skin problem, not a fat problem — and fat-reduction treatments make it look worse.
Prolonged stretch damages elastin and disorganises collagen. Once the underlying volume reduces, the envelope does not always retract, particularly after large or rapid losses.
Fat reduction and skin tightening are opposite requirements here. Removing more volume from beneath loose skin increases the redundancy. This is the single most consequential distinction in body work.
Degree of redundancy, skin quality and elastic recoil, how much weight was lost and how quickly, weight stability, and the site.
Skin-directed tightening rather than further volume reduction. The extent of what non-surgical treatment can achieve is discussed honestly, because for substantial redundancy it is limited.
Where redundancy is significant, non-surgical tightening will not be sufficient and a surgical opinion is the appropriate referral.
After significant weight loss the skin envelope can exceed the volume beneath it. This is a skin problem, not a fat problem — and fat-reduction treatments make it look worse.
Fat reduction and skin tightening are opposite requirements here. Removing more volume from beneath loose skin increases the redundancy. This is the single most consequential distinction in body work.
Degree of redundancy, skin quality and elastic recoil, how much weight was lost and how quickly, weight stability, and the site.
Where redundancy is significant, non-surgical tightening will not be sufficient and a surgical opinion is the appropriate referral.
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