If you are investigating a body lift at Nashville Cosmetic Surgery, practice, congratulations! You are on a journey that has most likely been the process of many years, lots of hard work, and sacrifice. You are happier, healthier, and probably more active. And fitting into new, smaller clothing enhances your excitement. But many people feel uncomfortable with areas of excess skin after weight loss and come to our office for help. Patients who come to our practice for body lift surgery usually know from internet research and from talking to other body lift patients that Dr. Griffin specializes in body lift surgery and achieves wonderful results.
Don Griffin, MD, FACS
Board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Don Griffin realizes that no two patients are exactly alike—and neither are his surgical plans. Learn more about his background and his unique approach.
A mid-body lift or trunk lipectomy, as performed by Dr. Griffin, addresses the loose skin of the abdomen, hips, lower back, outer thighs, and buttock area. This procedure is like an abdominoplasty with the incision running all the way around the body. A thigh lift removes loose skin from the inner thighs with an incision in the groin crease and sometimes one extending down the inside of the leg. Loose arm skin is corrected with a Brachioplasty procedure, and upper back rolls are removed with an upper back lift procedure. Sagging breasts are improved with a breast lift or breast lift with augmentation.
The result of these procedures, whether done individually or combined, is a more natural, proportional appearance to the body with smoother contours. This is, in essence, the final phase of your total weight loss experience. It is important to know that some patients, depending on their goals, may require multiple procedures on different areas to achieve their ideal result. For some, these procedures can be combined in one operation, but it may take as many as three surgeries to achieve the optimal result.
