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Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Vertical Backlift for a Torso Cinching Effect

Background: The most commonly performed body tightening procedure by excision is the tummy tuck. Through a horizontally oriented excision of skin and fat the abdomen or lower anterior/ventral torso is tightened horizontally in the direction of the excision. As part of that procedure the vertically oriented rectus muscle/fascia is also tightened creating a bidirectional tightening/narrowing Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Vertical Backlift for Waistline Narrowing

Background:  The desire for a smaller waistline is an historic one for women that dates back for centuries by non-surgical tightening garments. Surgical approaches more recently have included the well known procedures of liposuction and various forms of tummy tucks. Most recently more internal procedures like rib removal offers improved waistline narrowing results in properly Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Back Lift for Torso Narrowing

Background: The excision of loose skin and fat through a variety of lifting are common body contouring procedures. While usually done after large amounts of weight loss, many such excisional procedures are done for the abdomen, waistline, chest, arms and thighs. Back lifts are also done and have been described as braline lifts, back roll Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Braline Backlifts

Braline backlifts eliminate back rolls that at or below the braline. The back roll is cut out, including skin and fat, and replaced with a horizontal scar that is designed to lay along or within the braline. This creates a flattening of the back for the trade-off of a scar. The following are the typical Read More…

Consent for Plastic Surgery: Braline Backlifts

Every plastic surgery procedure has numerous issues that every patient who is undergoing a procedure should know. These explanations are always on a consent form that you should read in detail before surgery. This consent form, while many perceive as strictly a legal protection for the doctor, is actually more intended to improve the understanding Read More…

The Braline Backlift For Removal Of Back Rolls

One of the many evolutions in plastic surgery has been the tremendous expansion of excisional body contouring procedures. Spurned on by the prevalence of extreme weight loss patients, particularly those from bariatric surgery in which large segments of loose body skin develops, the need for innovative and expanded uses of body contouring have been developed. Read More…

Back Lift Surgery in the Extreme Weight Loss Patient

  The back is not spared from the extreme weight loss process. While skin may sag worse in the front (abdomen) after a lot of weight loss, sagging in the back occurs as well. It tends to not sag as much as other areas due to three factors: the thickness of back skin (one of Read More…

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