Cosmetic Question: I have loose skin under my arm pit. Will an arm lift help me here?
Cosmetic Answer:
It sounds as though you need an axillary (arm pit) lift, not an arm lift. This lift is for women plagued by excess skin in the arm pit area – often after weight loss, but it could also be because that’s just how they developed. It seems to be a more common problem, at least in my practice, in women who form stretch marks very easily. They often have an Indian or Eastern Mediterranean (e.g. Sicilian, Greek, Lebanese) ancestry.
The axillary lift removes all that arm pit excess tissue, using an incision hidden in the axilla (arm pit). If the incision is sutured to the deep, tough fascia in the axilla, one gets a lift of the arm skin as well, but only the skin near this area, not right down the arm.
At times the problem in the axilla is fat as well as skin, so usually liposuction is done with the lift.
It can become quite complex in this area – some women have excess skin down the upper arm, and need a full arm lift (brachioplasty) as well. Others have excess skin along the side of the chest, and need a lateral chest lift as well. And then some women need the entire area treated with liposuction plus an arm, axilla and lateral chest lifts.
This just shows that cosmetic plastic surgery has become so advanced, that we truly can tailor the operation to you – we no longer have just one operation and do it hoping it works for you.
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Copyright E Morgan July 2014