TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-bariatric body contouring surgery after weight loss
T2 - Lessons learned from an obesity epidemic in the United States
AU - Wong, Michael S
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - With the rise in obesity in the United States, there has been a similar increase in bariatric surgery. This has resulted in numerous patients losing significant weight with accompanying circumferential body contouring issues. This has led to an amazing increase in the number of body contouring procedures performed, both traditional excisional techniques as well as new emerging techniques emphasizing tissue preservation, rearrangement, and dermal reshaping. Although China's rates of obesity lag behind the United States, there is a recipe for obesity that will eventually surpass the United States. Thus, China has the opportunity to learn from the United States experience with regards to obesity treatment and contouring procedures after significant weight loss. Time will tell whether China will choose to use similar tissue preservation techniques to address issues of soft tissue ptosis and volume deficiency seen after significant weight loss, make refinements of these techniques, or develop new uniquely Chinese solutions.
AB - With the rise in obesity in the United States, there has been a similar increase in bariatric surgery. This has resulted in numerous patients losing significant weight with accompanying circumferential body contouring issues. This has led to an amazing increase in the number of body contouring procedures performed, both traditional excisional techniques as well as new emerging techniques emphasizing tissue preservation, rearrangement, and dermal reshaping. Although China's rates of obesity lag behind the United States, there is a recipe for obesity that will eventually surpass the United States. Thus, China has the opportunity to learn from the United States experience with regards to obesity treatment and contouring procedures after significant weight loss. Time will tell whether China will choose to use similar tissue preservation techniques to address issues of soft tissue ptosis and volume deficiency seen after significant weight loss, make refinements of these techniques, or develop new uniquely Chinese solutions.
KW - Autoaugmentation
KW - Lower body lift
KW - Obesity
KW - Post-bariatric body contouring
KW - Upper body lift
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U2 - 10.1097/SAP.0000000000000814
DO - 10.1097/SAP.0000000000000814
M3 - Article
C2 - 27414005
AN - SCOPUS:84979779201
VL - 77
SP - S53-S59
JO - Annals of Plastic Surgery
JF - Annals of Plastic Surgery
SN - 0148-7043
ER -