Total Body Contouring

Total body contouring or body sculpting is a surgical procedure that helps reshape an area of the body. The procedures used may involve getting rid of extra skin, eliminate excess fat or reshape or contour an area. Total body contouring is not a weight loss procedure, but it helps shape the body and address specific areas of the body where weight loss fails, or extra skin is found due to excessive weight loss.

Some body contouring procedures are noninvasive that use lasers, radiofrequency, or ultrasound to pass through the skin to reach the fat below the surface. Other minimally-invasive body contouring requires a very small incision for the fiber optic laser to reach deeper into the fatty areas of the body. This procedure is known as the laser-assisted lipolysis, which significantly removes more fat than noninvasive total body contouring.

Different Types of Total Body Contouring

• Lifts and tucks: Helps remove excess fat and extra skin. It includes tummy tuck (abdominoplasty), facelift (rhytidectomy), breast lift (mastopexy) and double chin surgery.
• Liposuction: Suctions out fat deposits.

Why Use Body Sculpting?

We all want to look our best and feel thinner or attain a certain shape. Total body contouring is usually used when diet and exercise do not make much of a difference.

The surgical options of total body contouring help remove extra skin to make the skin look smoother and younger. It also helps improve loose, saggy, or wrinkled skin caused by aging.Body contouring targets almost all areas of the body. Some of the common areas are:

• Arms
• Back
• Belly and flanks
• Buttocks
• Belly and Chin
• Thighs

What Happens During Liposuction and Other Surgical Total Body Contouring?

The procedure of surgical body sculpting can take up to 45 minutes to several hours based on the areas that are being treated.
For surgical procedures, our team may:

• Mark the areas for treatment
• Perform safety checks
• Administer anesthesia — local or general
• Prepare the skin for surgery
• Make incisions (cuts) in your skin as required by the procedure
• Mold the tissue and excess fat to create the desired look
• Tighten muscles most likely during abdominoplasty
• Eliminate excess skin
• Suction out excess fat using liposuction or in combination with other procedures
• Close any incisions and apply bandages once complete

What To Expect During Non-Surgical Lipolysis?

A session of lipolysis can take between 30 to 60 minutes.
Our team may:

• Mark the skin of the targeted area
• For injection lipolysis, inject a drug in the area where fat reduction is required
• Use a to deliver ultrasound waves, laser beams, cold or heat