ARM LIFT

Causes of Arm Sagging

Aging

With the aging factor, sagging in the arms can be seen. The earlier you take precautions to prevent this, the later you will encounter the problem of arm sagging. You can make your arms look younger with exercises that will keep your arms tight and movements that will increase your muscle density. However, when sagging starts despite sports, performing non-surgical arm lifts with medical devices in the early period will slow down the progress of this process. Since these devices provide tightening by stimulating the collagen fibers in the arm skin, they will reduce sagging and tighten the skin in the long term.

Arm Sagging Due to Tendency of Getting Fat

More sagging may appear on fatty and thick arms. Frequently gaining or losing weight can cause the arms to droop down. In order to prevent this, you should do exercises for weight loss and control your nutrition with diet programs. With weight loss, sagging of the arms can also be seen with the loss of adipose tissue. If there is no thinning in the arms despite weakening, removal of fat with liposuction will both thin the arms and eliminate sagging. Depending on the degree of arm sagging after weight loss, arm lift can be performed with medical devices or surgery.

Points to Take Consideration Before Arm Lift

The patients who are candidates for arm lift operation must have lost weight and have excess skin, have  critical upper arm skin laxity and their weight are moderately steady and who are not essentially overweight. They must be healthy candidates who don’t have any risk of a surgery or medical history such as hardly recovering medical condition.

How is Arm Aesthetics Performed?

 Removing fat from the arm  is one of the area where liposuction is most beneficial. In this procedure, fat mass can be removed from the inner area of ​​the arm, the outer area and even the shoulder area. However, for the  successful operation, the tightness of the arm skin must be good. If there is some slack in the skin, tightening of the arm skin can be achieved by applying the laser lipolysis plus process.

If the slack in the arm skin is too much and sagging skin has also occurred, sufficient thinning and tension cannot be achieved  without removing the sagging skin this time. At this stage, arm lift surgery should be performed.

Arm lift surgery is a skin removal procedure and leaves a scar like all skin removal. If the arm skin is saggy only in the armpit area, it is possible to remove the sagging area by removing the skin only from the armpit. But usually the sagging starts from the armpit and extends to the elbow area. In these patients, full arm lift surgery should be performed. In this surgery, a suture scar is formed that extends from the armpit to the elbow. The seam marks remain on the inside of the arm so they will be invisible.

Arm lift surgery is performed under general anesthesia and takes about 2 hours. Before the surgery, the arms are lifted from the shoulder level, the amount of sagging skin is determined and drawings are made. During the surgery, excess arm skin is removed according to this plan. The postoperative hospital stay is 1 day. It is normal to have slight swelling in the hands and some tension in the arms for the first few days. During this period, the hands should be kept slightly up while lying down. After the operation, the patient should wear an arm corset that extends from the armpit to the elbows for three weeks. You can take a bath 3 days after the operation. The full results of the operation can be observed in an average of 6 months.   After the stretching process, the arm does not return to its original state. However, if the patient has made a habit of gaining and losing excessive weight, arm sagging cannot be prevented.