Surgery After Massive Weight Loss: The Essential Consumer Guide - Softcover

Marketing, Logographica; Okpaku MD, Anire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145154555X ISBN 13: 9781451545555

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

A simple to understand guide about what to expect with Weight Loss and Surgery. Losing weight will improve your health, stamina, and mental disposition in many ways. Just losing a small amount of your current weight can make a difference in the way you feel and look. Why Surgery After Massive Weight Loss? Once you reach your weight loss goals you may not have the fit and healthy body image you desire. Following massive weight loss, the skin and tissues that have been severely stretched over the years, often lack elasticity and cannot readjust to the new, smaller size of the body. As a result, sagging pockets of skin may form around the face, neck and jaw line, at the upper arms, lower back, the abdomen region and around the hips, buttocks, groin area and thighs. The surplus, sagging skin that is left behind after massive weight loss, can cause considerable hygienic problems, skin irritation, skin breakdown, pain and even infection. This loose, sagging skin looks abnormal in most cases and gets in the way of normal activities or movement. After losing the weight, the next stage of this journey is a series of operations called body contouring, where Dr. Okpaku removes the excess tissue, sculpts and restores the body to a more normal, aesthetically pleasing state, and for most patients this is a positive transformation, a dramatic return to health and self-confidence.

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About the Author:

Doctor Anire Okpaku is a board-certified plastic surgeon and the Medical Director of Ocean View Plastic Surgery, serving the needs of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and South Florida. He specializes in cosmetic plastic surgery. He is an active member of the Bayside Medical Center at Mercy Hospital where he performs most of his surgeries. He also holds privileges in several other South Florida Hospitals. Dr. Okpaku graduated from the prestigious Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, relocating later to Miami to where he completed his general surgical residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami. He went on to complete a Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Texas Health and Science Center, in San Antonio. (305) 856-9566 www.DroBodies.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 145154555X
• ISBN 13: 9781451545555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40