Body Shaping Without Surgery

Body Shapers Garments that Shape With No Surgery

I see many patients that are not ready for surgery but are still emotionally upset about their contour problems. Check out these new pages that show how Second Stage body sculpting garments can help with several contour problems. Each link has multiple pictures showing the patient with and without the garment so you can evaluate the change in static photos. However, the real change comes with motion and emotion. It is very rewarding seeing the changes on the patients' faces and hearing their comments about how the garments can help with confidence and make the body look better especially with moving. Tissues are stabilized and do not bounce as much.

Body Shaping Loose Chest Skin After Massive Weight Loss

Body Shaping Black Vest for Shaping the Male Chest of a Body Builder During Weight Loss Check out this black garment for the male chest.

Body Shaping Puffy Nipples of Gynecomastia with a garment can be much better than adhesive tape. Prolonged use of tape can cause scars and pigmentation changes.

Body Shaping of the Very Obese Male

These garments have additional targeted compression panels and work much better than others I have evaluated. Some prefer additional compression beyond the chest. Explore options of Male Body Shaping Clothing at The Surgery Store.

Hope this helps,

Michael Bermant, MD
Board Certified
American Board of Plastic Surgery
PlasticSurgery4U.com

Body Lift and Belt Lipectomy After Massive Weight Loss

Weight Loss, Dealing With Excess Skin of the Chest and Body is also a major emotional issue.

Check out this new section on the Personal Experiences and Emotions of Body Lift Surgery for those after massive weight loss.

Body Lift Surgery is a great too After Weight Loss and is not a replacement for losing weight.

Hope this helps,

Michael Bermant, MD
Board Certified American Board of Plastic Surgery
PlasticSurgery4U.com

BMI - Body Fat, New Body Mass Index Calculator

Wearing the extra fat is not healthy. Check out your risks with a BMI Calculator (Body Mass Index).

Plastic surgery is better after weight loss, losing weight is a coarse tool. Plastic surgery is better used for refinement.

Hope this helps,

Michael Bermant, MD
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Body in Motion Plastic Surgery Tummy Tuck

I started working on Tummy Tuck Abdominoplasty documenation with movies in 1997. I evolved a standard way to show the problem before surgery and the results after tummy tuck. The views (movies) had to be:

• Easy to get the same views days, months, and years apart between before / after movies
• Not embarassing to the patients
• Show the problem, the entire problem: front, sides, and back
• Show how the tissues move

Gradually this evolved into a movie of the patient turning in a circle and then bending over from the side. One of my English patients demonstrated the power of bending towards the camera to show loose skin from the front. For the belly button, a close up with the hands at the side and how the loose skin about the belly button moves as the arms are raised over the head. Standard views:

• Turning in a circle
• Bending over (view from the side)
• Bending over (view from the front)
• Belly Button close-up arms raising over the head and back down

Since 1997 I have been showing such movies at national Plastic Surgery meetings getting feedback from other plastic surgeons. Many told me they were excited at the advantages of this movie documentation. In several of the courses I took at the last cosmetic surgery meeting, I saw other plastic surgeons using some of these standard views to show their patients before after surgery.

View movies before and after Tummy Tuck Abdominoplasty (plastic surgery for the Stomach).

Michael Bermant, MD
Board Certified
American Board of Plastic Surgery
PlasticSurgery4U

The Human Body in Motion and Plastic Surgery

The beautiful body is more than what a still picture shows. There is poetry in how the muscles and skin move during sports, fun, and just interacting. A frozen patient on a picture can show much, but no where as much as watching them moving, living, and alive.

A great plastic surgeon Julia Terzis taught me that animation, how the body moves, is important. Watching her videos documenting nerve injuries, reconstruction, and how patients moved inspired me to better understand the body in motion. Her grants permitted movies, too expensive at that time for most of us, to record the problem and track the evolution of the improvement after surgery.

Over the years, I tried to show problems of movement using still images. Standard photographic views with muscles tight can show deformities of scars. Firmer gland of gynecomastia tends to reveal itself when muscles are tight since the gland compresses differently than the softer fat. However, movies just show much more. When digital movies of the miniDV format became available, I saw a reasonably priced solution. I have been trying to document the problem and then the surgical solutions since. What I have found has been inspirational.

Check out this page about the deformity after another doctor's liposuction. The still images with muscles compressed and relaxed show the crater deformity after excessive liposuction. Impressive, but not as much as the movies about the same problem.

However, taking the movies, editing them, and finding how to make them easily available to the public takes a great deal of time.

to be continued...

Michael Bermant, MD
Board Certified
American Board of Plastic Surgery