
Why, hello Back Flap! It's nice to meet you! I know a plastic
surgeon that can and will, for the Right! Price! slice those back-flaps
and pull 'em to the front for a nice set of melons!
The surgeon I'm using actually does do that -
he uses the excess redundant skin on the upper back to create a type of breast lift without using any implants.
"In the massive weight loss (MWL) patient, the upper body and breast
must be treated together for optimizing results because the two regions
are adjacent and one affects the other. After MWL, upper back rolls
are a common annoyance, on the sides and back. Extending around to the
front, the upper back rolls become continuous with the lateral
(outside) of the sagging breast. Even patients who have been
large-breasted their whole life can find themselves with excess volume
loss and "pancake"-like flattening of the breasts. The breasts can be
completely deflated, with only the significant skin excess contributing
to volume as the patients roll or stuff the excess skin into a bra.
Even if a C-cup is required to hold the sagging breasts, this is a
false sense of size if the volume is comprised mainly of skin rather
than breast tissue or fat.
Treatment of the back rolls cannot be
adequately performed by liposuction alone. Open removal of the excess
skin is required, usually with a scar extending within the bra-line
around the back, sometimes all the way across the back. The sagging
breasts are treated with a mastopexy procedure, meaning a breast lift.
The lift usually requires incisions around the nipple and under the
breast. The nipple is relocated much higher to a normal position. The
skin excess is reduced. Many such patients will end up with inadequate
volume with a breast lift - only. They require some form of breast
augmentation.
Breast augmentation is done in most non-MWL
patients with breast implants. However, we have generally been
disappointed with procedures that involve implants as the only means of
breast enlargement in the MWL patient. Instead, we usually prefer
using the patient's own tissues (the side and back roll tissues) and
rotating them into the breasts to act as breast implants."
Why, hello Back Flap! It's nice to meet you! I know a plastic surgeon that can and will, for the Right! Price! slice those back-flaps and pull 'em to the front for a nice set of melons!
The surgeon I'm using actually does do that - he uses the excess redundant skin on the upper back to create a type of breast lift without using any implants.