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Life After Weight Loss: Sculpting a New You
J. Peter Rubin, MD
Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Director, UPMC Life After Weight Loss Program
If we need to involve other specialists in other medical fields to help evaluate our patients and maintain the highest level of safety, all of those doctors are readily available to us. It’s really sort of one-stop shopping for safe and effective plastic surgery.
Options and goals for success
We go to great lengths to work with our patients to help them define their goals and their priorities to focus on what things bother them, and to design very individualized, customized solutions that can help them meet their goals effectively and safely and get the absolute best possible results from these plastic surgery procedures.
A key concept that we really developed in body contouring is being able to combine procedures in a single operation safely and effectively. And typical combinations may involve tummy tuck and breast lifts or tummy tuck and lower body lift. That really has a very powerful effect on the entire lower trunk and lower body.
We want to see our patients succeed, we want to see them get the best possible outcomes, and we work very closely with them on that aspect of counseling, on lifestyle and nutritional changes so that they can maintain their weight, they can maintain their good health for the long term.
You know, for so many patients that go through that process of weight loss surgery and extensive weight loss and are left with areas of hanging skin, the plastic surgery phase represents the final part of their weight loss journey, and this is really an opportunity for patients to let go of those daily reminders of the obese person that they had been in the past. And it really helps our patients to move on, to get a new level of self-confidence, of self-esteem, to restore their body image. And this surgery is so important to patients who go through massive weight loss.
To learn more about Life After Weight Loss services or to schedule an appointment, you can contact us by phone at 412-641-3723 or toll-free at 1-877-NEW YOU8 (639-9688).