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Other Body Contouring Procedures
 In addition to that of the abdomen, the skin of other areas of the trunk and extremities are also subject to the same damaging stresses of time, gravity, and the stretching from weight gain and weight loss. Particularly after dramatic weight loss, often assisted in recent years by the variety of gastric bypass surgeries, the upper arms, back, hips, thighs, and buttocks are additional areas of excess skin and fat for which patients frequently seek recontouring. Often each of those areas may be addressed separately, depending upon the needs and desires of the individual patient. In cases of extreme and extensive skin laxity of the trunk, a circumferential may even be performed which incorporates an abdominoplasty with a simultaneous hip, lateral thigh, and buttock lift. Such procedures are accompanied by rather significant scarring, with the extending the more common abdominoplasty incision around the waistline and across the upper buttocks below the posterior waistline. The results of these procedures are often quite dramatic, and the contour improvements are frequently "liberating" for those patients who have worked so hard to lose their excessive weight. Those patients who are judged to be good candidates for these procedures usually find the associated scars an acceptable and worthwhile trade-off for their improved comfort and self-confidence when wearing a bathing suit or form-fitting clothes.
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