Body Lift- Body Contouring after Massive Weight Loss in Los Angeles March 17, 2009

Although many people in Los Angeles know what a tummy tuck is, most people don’t know what a Body Lift is. Body Lift is a relatively new plastic surgery procedure in Beverly Hills which is used for body contouring of people who have lost massive weight after Bariatric Surgery- Gastric Bypass or Lap Band.

 

In Beverly Hills, Body Lift or Belt Lipectomy is similar to an abdominoplasty in that it also removes excess hanging skin folds of the abdomen. In addition, a Body Lift also removes excess hanging skin of the lower back and helps to lift the sagging buttocks. Beverly Hills Body Lift uses a circumferential torso incision to remove the hanging skin of the mid torso, including that of the abdomen, flanks, and the lower back, and thus lift up the lower body.

 

Body Lift is a complicated procedure that is best performed by a Board Certified Plastic Surgeons who specialize in body contouring after massive weight loss. This Body Contouring procedure needs to be performed in a Surgical Facility which is equipped for the intra-operative and post-operative necessities of a major abdominal surgery.

 

Recovery after a Body Lift takes at least 3 weeks, and during at least the first ten days the patient would need much help. Most patient can return to their routine activities after the third week and start exercising in 4-6 weeks.

 

Dr. Younai is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with formal training in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, as well as General Surgery at some of the most prestigious university residencies in the United States.  As a cosmetic plastic surgeon he has had ample experience in performing post-bariatric body contouring surgeries including tummy tuck, abdominoplasty, Panniculectomy, belt Lipectomy, repair of ventral hernia, body lift, circumferential Torsoplasty, thigh lift, brachioplasty, upper body lift, breast reduction, and breast lift.

 

At the California Center for Plastic Surgery Dr. Younai will review your treatment options for massive weight loss body contouring, including pros and cons of each procedure, potential risks and complications, recovery course, pre and post operative instructions, and aesthetic outcomes. There are also many before-and-after pictures and high resolution images of body lift and Panniculectomy procedures available in our photo gallery.

 

Dr. Younai receives patients from the Northern as well as the Southern California region. Some of these cities include San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

 

Dr. Younai performs his surgeries at the Regency Surgery Center which is certified by Medicare, Blue Cross, AAAHC, and AAAASF. This state-of-the-art surgical facility is specially equipped and staffed to care for patients with massive weight loss. This outpatient surgery center is located in Encino, and near Sherman Oaks, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Northridge.

Beverly Hills Liposuction Picutres and Photos September 8, 2008

Beverly Hills Liposuction pictures of women who had abdominal liposuction in Los Angeles. Liposuction picutres and photos are shown in the photo gallary of Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery clinic of Dr. Sean Younai who is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon specilizing in liposuction of abdomen, neck, arms, legs, thighs, back, and buttocks.

beverly hills liposuction picture before

Beverly Hills Liposuction Picutres After

Beverly Hills Liposuction Back, before

Beverly Hills Liposuction Back, after

Beverly Hills Tummy Tuck Pictures and Photos September 7, 2008

Beverly Hills Tummy Tuckor Los Angeles Abdominoplasty picutres are shown here and at the before-and-after photo gallary of Los Angles Plastic Surgeon who is an expert in tummy tuck and abdominoplasty. These are photos of average size women of Los Angeles and Beverly hills after tummy tuck.

 

Beverly Hills Tummy Tuck Before Picutre

 

After tummy tuck in Beverly Hills

High Tension Abdominoplasty or Tummy Tuck in Beverly Hills is a combination of tummy tuck, liposuction, and body lift. The before and after pictures of abdominoplasty shown here demonstrate thightening of the abdomen, improved waist line, and a curvy figure.

Plastic Surgery Nutritional Supplements in Beverly Hills March 19, 2008

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeons have always been drawn to the cutting edge technology in order to give their patients the very best. The latest Plastic Surgery advent in Beverly Hills has not been a high tech laser.  But rather, just the opposite, Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeons are turning low tech! They are embracing Holistic Medicine- the natural herbs and vitamin supplements that potentially help cosmetic surgery patients heal and recover the fastest. Even the American Society of Plastic Surgery is now educating the public about nutritional supplements that reduce bruising and facilitate healing. The following are examples of some of the most commonly used nutritional herbal supplements and vitamins that are now commonly being used by plastic and cosmetic surgeons in Beverly Hills. Arnica Montana  Arnica Montana is a natural herb that minimizes surgical bleeding, bruising, inflammation, muscle pain, and promotes healing.  It works well both in an oral form and as a cream, but avoid putting the cream near open wounds and fresh incisions.  Taken before plastic surgery, there is less bleeding and swelling afterwards, and taken after cosmetic surgery, pain and bruising are minimized. Because of this property Arnica Montana is used prior to liposuction, tummy tuck, or facial plastic surgery.Usage: Start 3 days before plastic surgery.  Four pills, 3 times a day, under the tongue.  Let pills dissolve. Continue for two weeks after Plastic Surgery.  Nux Vomica  Also known as Poison Nut, this alleviates the side-effects of anesthesia and other drugs, helping you to feel more like yourself soon after plastic surgery.  It helps with nausea and dysphasia; ad helps detoxify your body from cosmetic surgery.  Specialty pharmacies carry the multiplex formulas.Usage: 4 pills 3 times a day under tongue.  Let pills dissolve. Continue for one week after plastic surgery.  Grape Seed Extract  (Proanthocyanidins) This herb is derived from Grape Seed and has a special affinity for skin tissue and promotes healing.  It helps shorten the recovery period by reducing inflammation and accelerating the rate of repair to the skin.Usage: Start 7 days before plastic surgery.  One, 100mg capsule, 3 times a day on an empty stomach. Bromezyme™(2400 mcu) A natural proteolytic enzyme derived from pineapple that has shown to reduce inflammation, consequently decreasing pain, swelling and accelerating the healing process. This nutritional supplements should be taken prior to plastic surgery.Usage: Start 3 days before surgery.  3 tablets, 3 times a, day on an empty stomach.  Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) Vitamin C is an antioxidant which helps your natural defenses against free radicals, which are unstable molecules that age the skin, resulting from environmental pollutants, smoking, or excess sun exposure. Vitamin C neutralizes volatile reactions caused by free radicals that damage skin. Preliminary studies suggest vitamin C supplements in non-deficient people can speed healing of various types of wounds and trauma, including surgery, minor injuries, herniated intervertebral disks and skin ulcers. Vitamin C is also essential for your body’s production of collagen which is used in the building of your skin, bones, teeth, and every organ of your body.Vitamin C can be found in citrus fruits and juices, cantaloupe, strawberries, kiwi, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, and green peppers. There are many forms and doses of Vitamin C available in Health Food Stores. Taking any more than about 200 milligrams per day is likely a waste of money anyway, according to a landmark study by Mark Levine of the NIH. Levine’s group found that the body’s cells can’t absorb more than about 100 milligrams per day, and the concentration of vitamin C in the blood begins to level off at a dose of 200 milligrams per day. The study appeared in the April 1996 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Beverly Hills Tummy Tuck Pictures February 22, 2008

Before and after Plastic Surgery Pictures of 55 years old Hispanic woman who after several pregnancies had developed hanging abdominal skin folds with stretch marks and weakness of the abdominal wall and bulging. Patient underwent Tummy Tuck/ High Tension Abdominoplasty which includes liposuction, tightening of the abdominal wall, and pulling up of the hips and upper thighs. Procedure was performed by Dr. Sean Younai who is a Board Certified Plastic & Cosmetic Surgeon offering services of body contouring for women, including liposuction, liposculpture, large-volume-liposuction, tummy tuck, High Tension Abdominoplasty, body lift, male breast reduction, and thigh lift. Dr. Younai receives patients from Northern and Southern California including cities of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery- The lastes Cosmetic Surgery Procedures February 11, 2008

In today’s society, as people live longer and healthier lives, an increasing emphasis is being placed on preserving ones youthful appearance.  In Beverly Hills Cosmetic surgery enables men and women to look as young, healthy, and energetic as they feel! With Plastic Surgery in Beverly Hills men and women try to live their lives to its fullest and to look as healthy as they feel. People want their looks to reflect their good health and stamina. Just glance at any magazine such as Allure, Cosmopolitan, or Self; and there is often an article related to the topic of cosmetic surgery in Beverly Hills or Los Angeles.

As a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, doctor Sean Younai come across many men and women of all ages, social, and ethnic backgrounds who seek cosmetic plastic surgery for personal as well as and professional reasons. Contrary the popular perception that people seek cosmetic enhancements to please their spouses or friends, we find that most just want to feel better about themselves, and for themselves. For instance, many women in Beverly Hills tell me that from an early age they wanted to have fuller breasts in order to look more proportional in cloths! While others who were born with congenital deformities seek plastic surgery just to look normal. Or have you ever heard of a friend saying that he/she hates having pictures taken because they hate their nose.While many seek cosmetic plastic surgery because of self-fulfillment, a growing number of others resort to plastic surgery in Beverly Hills for their profession. There is a growing pressure in the workforce not to look too old and rusty. Some fear being pushed out of their jobs, only to be replaced by younger workers.  They wish to take steps to correct some of the physical signs of aging in order to remain competitive.  This does not only pertain to the entertainment industry but to all professions. The most popular plastic surgery procedures in Beverly Hills are- Breast Augmentation, Liposuction, Tummy Tuck, Rhinoplasty, and Eyelid Surgery.  While most Beverly Hills women seek breast augmentation with saline or silicone implants in order to increase their bust size, there are many others who seek to correct their breast asymmetry, tubular breast deformity, or to revise their previous breast enlargement surgery with implant exchange or capsulectomy. Also, there are women who undergo a breast lift or mastopexy along with breast augmentation in order to lift their sagging breasts which developed as a result of pregnancy, aging, or weight loss. To achieve a more proportional figure or to restore their bodies shape men and women of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles undergo body contouring procedures such as- liposuction, liposculpture, tummy tuck or abdominoplasty, body lift, brachioplasty or arm tuck, buttock augmentation, and thigh lift. Body contouring procedures such as these have become almost a necessity, especially for those who have lost massive weight after undergoing Bariatric surgery or Gastric Bypass surgery.  

Finally, a variety of surgical and non-surgical facial cosmetic surgery procedures which combat facial aging have become accepted in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. While the clock doesn’t ever stop ticking, youthful appearance can be preserved by the latest cosmetic facial surgeries such as eyelid surgery or blephaorplasty, facelift, neck lift, forehead lift, and rhinoplasty.

 During your consultation with the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon, Doctor Sean Younai will review your treatment options, including pros and cons, potential risks and complications, recovery course, pre and post operative instructions, and esthetic outcomes. There are also many before-and-after pictures, high resolution images of all plastic surgery procedures available in our photo gallery.  Dr. Younai is a Board Certified plastic surgeon who receives patients at the California Center for Plastic Surgery from the Northern as well as the Southern California region. Some of these cities are Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

Affording cosmetic plastic surgery in Beverly Hills & Los Angeles January 8, 2008

Plastic surgery in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills is no longer exclusive to the rich and famous or the Hollywood celebrities, such as Britney Spears, Anna Nichole Smith, Ashlee Simpson, etc. Today, men and women of every walk of life are having cosmetic surgery in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and all over Southern California. The reason for this upsurge in cosmetic plastic surgery is its affordability. Most people can now afford plastic surgery in Beverly Hills & Los Angeles. There are several reasons for this including:

1. Availability of Financing for Cosmetic Surgery. In the old days no financial company would loan money without collateral, especially if it was for cosmetic surgery. Now, some of the major financial institutions are marketing primarily to the plastic surgery crowd. Realizing that those with a steady income can make payments for cosmetic surgery, just as if they were making it for a new car. In fact, some loan companies are becoming even more creative. They are willing to give patients a cosmetic surgery home equity loan, with the payments added to patient’s monthly mortgage payment.
2. Cost of Cosmetic Surgery. Whether the relative cost of cosmetic surgery procedures has come down, or the price of most things has gone up, the prices of plastic surgery procedures is now within people’s spending budget.
3.  Plastic Surgeons offer financing. While it used to be that one had to pay cash for plastic surgery, now plastic surgeons accept credit card payments, financing, or even offer cosmetic surgery savings plans.

 Therefore, Plastic Surgery in no longer exclusive to Beverly Hills & Los Angles but women from the suburbs of Los Angeles can afford plastic surgery even if they live in cities such as Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

Buttock Agumentation in Beverly Hills- Brazilian Buttock Lift December 10, 2007

Why is there such an interest in buttock augmentation in Beverly Hills? Why do so many men and women seek Plastic Surgery to enhance the shape of their buttocks or to enlarge the size of their buttocks by choosing to undergo Brazilian Butt Augmentation in Los Angeles? The reason for this fury is that many men and women are just unhappy with their butts. Their buttock is, too flat, too wide, or too sagging. Cloths don’t fit or look good on them. They were either born like this, or lost the form and shape of their buttocks after losing or gaining weight. Pregnancy, or just aging alone, can also affect the size, projection, and profile of the buttocks.  This leaves many beauty conscious people of Beverly Hills frustrated, especially those who don’t get the desired improvement through exercise and muscle toning.  There are a variety of cosmetic surgery procedures available in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles to those who would like to have youthful, fuller, and perky buttocks with a more sensual body profile. The procedures for buttock augmentation in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles vary depending on what is the actual deficiency and what is missing. There are many who are either genetically or by weight gain have developed “fat and wide” buttocks. Liposculpture as performed by Plastic Surgeons in Beverly Hills can help these people by shaping their buttocks and the surrounding tissues to make the buttocks rounder and more proportional to the rest of the figure. There are others who have “flat and wide” buttocks. Besides utilizing liposculpture to shape of their buttocks, fat injection or buttock implants are used in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles to augment the deficient buttock volume and to provide projection.Finally, there are people that through either weight loss or aging have developed “flat and sagging buttocks. These people can consider buttock lift with or without buttock augmentation. It is possible to utilize some of the discarded fat and soft tissue to augment the buttocks. The newly sensationalized “Brazilian Butt Lift” of Beverly Hills is not truly a buttock lift procedure but more a buttock augmentation which appears to have lifted the buttock by actually augmenting it and increasing its projection.  

What are the most popular plastic surgery procedures for Women in Beverly Hills & Los Angeles? October 2, 2007

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgery Statistics the most popular plastic surgery procedures among women in Southern California, including Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, are breast augmentation, liposuction, nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck.  Non-surgical plastic surgery procedures such as Botox injection, chemical peel, and laser hair removal have surpassed surgical procedures in prevalence. To achieve the perfect body, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles women are working out, eating right, and having plastic surgery. Young women who never developed full breasts are having saline or silicone breast implants to augment and enhance the size and shape of their breasts. Mothers whose bodies have gone through changes with pregnancy are having tummy tuck, liposuction, and breast augmentation with breast lift, in order to regain their youthful figure. To achieve facial harmony and youth, women are seeking Facial Plastic Surgery. Procedures such as nose reshaping and eyelid surgery are now being performed with minimal downtime and discomfort, and with an emphasis on attaining a natural look.