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Abstract
Background: Obesity is a major health problem worldwide and has reached an epidemic proportion in the Western society. Evidence continues to accumulate that obesity is a major risk factor for many diseases and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Aims: The aim of this study is to review the different surgical modalities used for abdominoplasty and thigh lift in patients suffering from skin laxity and redundancy following bariatric surgery.
Methodology: The universal definitions of overweight and obesity have been established using body mass index (BMI equal kilograms of body weight/height [m2] squared). For adults a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight and a BMI of 30 or greater is defined as obese.
As a result of the obesity pandemic, more and more individual are seeking bariatric surgery for weight loss and resolution of conditions related to obesity. As the numbers have risen to greater than 200,000 cases per year, the number of post-bariatric massive weight loss patients presenting to the plastic surgeon for body contouring to address excess skin laxity is increasing.
Conclusion: Postoperative care and follow up is very important to avoid some complications which are common with these operations like seroma, wound dehiscence and thromboembolism. Subsequently, with an increase in number of successful weight loss patients, contouring of all regions of the body after bariatric surgery is growing in frequency and is rapidly undergoing modification and refinement growing to a new specialty.